Announcing Our New Lesson: Drafting an Off-Shoulder Knit Top: Two Variations

College of Vogue’s knit collection consists of an introduction to knits, a lesson on knit cloth ideas and how one can draft a number of knit kinds & necklines, comparable to off-the-shoulder knit tops with a gathered and a flat cuff. Picture credit score: UniversityofFashion.com)

When you’ve got been laying aside working with ‘lower & sew’ knit materials since you lack the drafting & stitching experience, we’re right here to assist!

A standard mistake made by beginner designers/sewers is to imagine that any garment sample might be made in any cloth, whether or not or not it’s a woven or knit. As an teacher at FIT for 12 years, I encountered many college students considering that it might work, solely to attempt it and fail. The frustration of studying the outcomes of a sample you drafted for a woven cloth, however lower in a knit, is just not solely disappointing however the garment is unwearable,.

That is why, after I began UoF in 2008, I made it a precedence to create a whole collection on working with lower & sew knits, starting with our classes, Introduction to Knit Fabrics and Knit Fabric Principles. These classes cowl all you have to learn about knit cloth construction, the science of stretch ratio, how one can draft a set of knit slopers from measurements and how one can draft a collection of knit clothes, utilizing these slopers.