While I've been laid up with sciatica, I've taken the opportunity to create a new sweater design with Designaknit on a very old laptop connected to my Brother electronic 940 knitting machine. The easy part was taking a couple of designs from Impresario Fruits & Veggies that I had and designing the front of the sweater, then doing a sleeve with a simple striped edge. The difficult part was actually creating a useable swatch or fabric because of the long floats created by this design on the backside.
In the end I decided to use a doubleknit fabric, i.e., jacquard or colored full needle rib, which means I'm knitting on both the main bed and the ribber at the same time, to lock in the floats, as I'm knitting and, thereby, making a wearable fabric. I'm planning on making the back solid black, but also in full needle rib in order to match the weight of the front, as well as the sleeves, which will have a small stripe near the edge. I made a mockup in CorelDraw which is the graphic I uploaded.
Of course, the neckline will have something added to finish it off, probably just a simple knit edging.
2 comments:
That's amazing. You do lovely design work.
what fun! that's a very original and intriguing design!
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