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Knitwear Design Workshop: The Comprehensive Guide to Handknits (Pre-Order)
Availability: Pre-Order
02/15/2010
Price: $40.00
Item #:
09KN01
ISBN: 978-1-59668-086-9
400 Pages
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 10 1/4
Learn to design knitwear with a perfect individual fit! From the initial spark of inspiration to the sewing of the last seam, Shirley Paden will guide you through the knitwear design process in the new Knitwear Design Workshop. Based on successful workshops Paden teaches to the fashion industry in New York, Knitwear Design Workshop finally gives you the foundation to take your knitwear designs to the next level with confidence.
A prolific knitwear designer, Shirley Paden's impressive work serves as a concrete example to identify the right yarn for particular garment design and pattern stitches, and to knit a perfect fit. Instructions for five new projects designed by Paden will further demonstrate how the techniques learned can translate into one-of-a-kind garments.
Knitwear Design Workshopincludes:
- Lessons on how to design double-tapered, single-tapered, and reverse-tapered garments with sleeves or sleeves caps that fit
- How to best use a stitch pattern to achieve the perfect look
- A clearer understanding of commercial pattern instructions
- Ways to improve your attention to detail with a meaningful test swatch
- Stronger knowledge of proper body or garment measurements
- And much more!
Knitwear Design Workshop is for all knitters who want to go beyond commercial pattern instructions, whether it's modifying those instructions for a garment that fits them perfectly, designing their own traditional knitwear, or creating stunning works of wearable art. This priceless information is a gem for your knitting library.
Chapter 1: Project Planning
Chapter 2: Selecting the Fabric
Chapter 3: Using Gauge to Determine Numbers of Stitches and Rows
Chapter 4: Pullovers
Chapter 5: Cardigans
Chapter 6: Additional Silhouettes
Chapter 7: Variations
Chapter 8: Additional Garments
Chapter 9: Finishing
Once an executive in the corporate world, Shirley Paden left it all behind 15 years ago to pursue a career in knitwear design. Today Shirley is the owner and founder of Shirley Paden Custom Knits in New York City. She teaches master knitting classes for the fashion industry and conducts seminars on lace, entrelac, cables, color knitting, and finishing techniques. Her designs have been published in Interweave Knits, Vogue Knitting, and Knitter’s magazines and she was the subject of a profile in 2004. She has been a guest on public television’s Knitting Daily TV (2010). Knitwear Design Workshop is her first, much-awaited book. She lives in New York City.