Intarsia Knitwear: Create Unique Patterns
A course by Anna HusemannTextile Designer
A course by Anna Husemann, Textile Designer
Learn to design knitting patterns with graphic elements and experiment with colors, shapes, and materials to reinterpret a traditional craft
Ever dreamed of combining color, style, and sustainability? Textile designer Anna Husemann does exactly that with her brand Plysh, where she experiments with the intarsia knitting technique to let spontaneity and originality flow in all her work.
In this course, design and create a multicolored knitted top. With Anna's help, use collage to sketch and develop your design, translate it into a diagram, and learn to work with the intarsia knitting technique. Discover how to transform your own ideas into garments designed by you.
What will you learn in this online course?
13 lessons & 19 downloads
Materials
3 minutes, 41 seconds
Shape and Color
6 minutes, 1 second
Intarsia
11 minutes, 44 seconds
Knitting Sample
2 minutes, 40 seconds
Knitting Chart
4 minutes, 15 seconds
Front
17 minutes, 17 seconds
What's included in this course?
Start the course by meeting your teacher, Anna Husemann. She tells you in more detail about her professional background, why she is passionate about knitting, and some of her sources of inspiration.
Go through the materials and background knowledge needed to make your knitted top, then discover how the intarsia technique works and how to knit a garter stitch gauge. As a starting point for your knitting pattern, create paper collages to define your final design and transfer it to a knitting diagram.
Once you have created the pattern and chosen the yarn colors, it's time to knit your top! Anna gives you some tips for the front, including how to calculate the amount of yarn and how to connect the different colors. Next, make a rectangle for the back. Knit an I-Cord edge to seal the straps and finish off the top with side seams, weaving in the loose ends of the yarn and joining the straps to the back.
Finally, Anna teaches you the best way to wash and dry your garment, as well as how to customize it according to your own tastes.
What is this course's project?
Make a knitted top with different materials and a range of colored shapes.
Projects by course students
Who is this online course for?
Anyone who wants to learn the intarsia knitting technique from scratch, as well as how to design a knitted garment with colorful patterns.
Requirements and materials
You need a solid grasp of the basic knitting stitches to take this course; however, the final project is adapted to beginners.
As for materials, you need yarn, crochet hooks (Anna knits with circular hooks), a set of needles (useful for the straps), a darning needle, a measuring tape, scissors, various types of paper, colored pencils, pins, as well as other tools that your teacher will specify during the course.
Reviews
- 6 months ago
I like the structure and execution of the tutorial, however, live demonstration of actual work could be improved as steps were not clearly visible to me. Thank you
- ruizc2010PLUS7 months ago
Me encantó el curso. Aprendí muchísimo con la forma tan clara y generosa de explicar de la profe. ¡De verdad, maravilloso!
- 1 year ago
Muy interesante y trabajos muy originales.
- 1 year ago
Hola! Estoy por empezarlo y espero aprender mucho. Se ve muy interesante.
- recolectoresPLUS2 years ago
me encanta como presenta sus inspiraciones, sus diseños son contemporáneos y preciosos. Definitivamente me encantaría ver más cursos de esta autora.
After finishing her studies, Anna set up the studio of her newly created brand Plysh in her own home. Her pieces have been featured internationally, for example in the Pom Pom Quarterly magazine and in an exhibition by art collective 8B in Denmark. She also shares all her knowledge in knitting manuals, as well as in courses on knitting, crochet, and textile dyeing that she teaches regularly.
Content
- U1
Introduction
- About Me
- Inspirations
- U2
Preparation
- Materials
- Shape and Color
- Intarsia
- Knitting Sample
- Knitting Chart
- U3
Production
- Front
- Back
- Straps
- Finishing
- U4
Care and Alternatives
- Washing and Drying
- Individualization
- FP
Final project
- Intarsia Knitwear: Create Unique Patterns
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FAQs
This course is aimed at advanced knitters who already know the basics and want to expand their skills in experimental knit design, intarsia, and sustainable material choices.
You’ll need plant-dyed wool, various knitting needles, paper for collages, a measuring tape, double-pointed needles, a darning needle for finishing, plus materials for mood boards and color swatches.
You’ll learn how to create custom intarsia knitting patterns, use paper collages as inspiration, select sustainable materials, and apply professional techniques for finishing and caring for knitted tops.
Step by step, the course guides you through creating your own collages, abstracting motifs, and transferring them into custom knitting patterns using charts.
Intarsia is a knitting technique where different colored sections are worked separately into the fabric, with yarns carried without floats and joined cleanly.
Yes, basic knitting skills like casting on, knit and purl stitches, and reading simple patterns are required.
Yes, the course emphasizes sustainable materials and shows how to effectively incorporate plant-dyed yarn into your projects.