Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles
Structure and Composition of Your Garment
A course by Carmen García de Mora , Textile Designer and Knitting Professor
Joined October 2018
About the video: Structure and Composition of Your Garment
Overview
“In this lesson I am going to explain the construction of the garment that we are going to knit. So you will have a map of what we are going to do, and if at any time you want to adapt it to another measure or apply some variation, you will know how to do it.”
In this video lesson Carmen García de Mora addresses the topic: Structure and Composition of Your Garment, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles. Learn how to knit a circular, top-down garment and discover all that you can create without using seams.
Partial transcription of the video
“Structure and composition of your garment Now I will explain the construction of our garment. Now that you know how to increase stitches, decrease them, knit and purl, you are ready to build your first garment. A top-down garment starts at the neckline. We will start by building the contour of the neck. First we will knit a few rows in garter stitch, then we will place the markers to mark the stitches that we will give to our shoulders. We will knit in the round, increasing before and after each shoulder to create this slant. Each time we will have one more stitch, until we get to this cont...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Knitting with Circular Needles
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Accessory Design, Fiber Arts, Knitting, Textile Design

Carmen García de Mora
A course by Carmen García de Mora
After being awarded her degree in technical engineering for industrial design, Carmen García de Mora was left yearning for a life of knitting needles and yarn, a passion inherited from her grandmother. In that moment she decided to study a Master's in knitwear design and has dedicated herself to both this and teaching since 2005.
Up until 2020, she taught a class in industrial knitwear as part of a fashion design degree in Barcelona. She is also an industrial knitwear production consultant as well as a hand-knit garment and collection designer for adults and infants. As for more personal projects, she markets her new designs through Ravelry and shares them with her follows on Instagram.
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