Design and Creation of Seamless Knitwear with Circular Needles
Threads, needles and materials
A course by Carmen García de Mora , Textile Designer and Knitting Professor
Joined October 2018
Joined October 2018
About the video: Threads, needles and materials
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you how to select the materials that you should use based on the characteristics you want your garment to have.”
In this video lesson Carmen García de Mora addresses the topic: Threads, needles and materials, 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
“Yarns, Needles, and Materials Now that you know your body measurements and we have the measurements down for our garment we wanted based on how loose we'd like it, let's talk a little bit about the materials and how all their different features could work for or against the characteristics we want in our sweater. I advise you to experiment with different types of yarn and needles to see what happens when you work with a different needle or when a yarn is more or less fuzzy. In any case, let me walk you through some of the features you’ll need to consider when selecting the yarn to knit your...”
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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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