Design and Creation of Seamless Knitwear with Circular Needles
Taking measurements and designing a garment
A course by Carmen García de Mora , Textile Designer and Knitting Professor
Joined October 2018
Joined October 2018
About the video: Taking measurements and designing a garment
Overview
“To knit to your measure, the first thing you must learn is how to measure your body and how to measure your garment. In this lesson I am going to teach you how to do it.”
In this video lesson Carmen García de Mora addresses the topic: Taking measurements and designing a garment, which is part of the Domestika online course: Design and Creation of Seamless Knitwear with Circular Needles. Create a Nordic-style sweater with a circular yoke step-by-step, from taking measurements to knitting motifs around the yoke.
Partial transcription of the video
“Taking Measurements and Designing a Garment In this lesson, we're learning to take our measurements and to translate them into our garment. To do that, we're going to use the sheet that you’ll find in Additional Resources. It’s called "Master Garment Spec Sheet," and we'll be using it throughout our course. You'll see a drawing on your first page, structuring what we’ve been talking about when we discussed the anatomy of this type of garment. First, the collar, the yoke, and then how we get to our contour before separating body and sleeves, so we can end up getting the contours we need. We'...”
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Course summary for: Design and Creation of Seamless Knitwear with Circular Needles
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Accessory Design, DIY, Fashion Design, Fiber Arts, Knitting
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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