Since launching the College of Vogue in 2008 the mission of the corporate has at all times been to protect the artwork and craft of vogue design. Now, as we enter our sixteenth yr in enterprise, I’m proud to say that we aren’t solely holding to that mission, however have expanded into different areas of vogue schooling, together with vogue retailing and merchandising, visible merchandising, vogue regulation, influencer advertising and marketing and the most recent vogue business space; 3D digital design.
We now have over 500 classes in 13 totally different disciplines and we proceed so as to add extra content material to our library month-to-month. Actually, we lately filmed a complete lower & sew knit lesson sequence in response to pupil ideas. From studying about knit materials and stretch ratios to drafting knit slopers – you requested & we delivered.
Your Knit Journey Begins Right here
Introduction to Knit Materials preview Knit Material Rules preview
Step one when designing a lower and stitch knit garment is to find out about knit cloth. In our lesson entitled, Introduction to Knit Materials, we exhibit the distinction between woven and knit materials and the way knit cloth is structured. You’ll study the which means of phrases like knit and purl, wale and course and the way a weft knit differs from a warp knit. We’ll educate you about various kinds of yarns and the way knits are made in order that you’ll make one of the best knit cloth selection for every of your designs.
In our lesson, Knit Material Rules, you’ll study extra about designing with knits. We’ll educate you all concerning the 4 traits of knit materials, what it means when a knit cloth has 1-way, 2-way or 4-way stretch, in addition to the six classes of stretch ratio percentages, in order that it is possible for you to to draft your knit design to your knit cloth selection.
Learn how to Draft Your Knit Slopers
Drafting a Ladies’s Relaxed Match Knit T-shirt from Measurements
Drafting a sample from physique measurements could be difficult, however not at College of Vogue. Whenever you draft your T-shirt slopers from our classes, Fitted Steady Knit T-shirt and the Relaxed Match T-shirt from Measurements, we offer downloadable charts and diagrams that can assist you find the entire key measurement-taking factors. We additionally present downloadable worksheets so to simply file your measurements. The ladies’s fitted steady knit T-shirt sloper will grow to be the premise for your entire knit designs for 1-way and a pair of manner stretch cloth.
Drafting a 4-Method Knit Stretch Sloper
Changing a Steady Knit T-shirt & Sleeve Sloper to 4-way Stretch Knit Sloper preview
When you’ve drafted your Fitted Steady Knit T-shirt sloper, you’re able to discover ways to convert that sloper to a 4-way knit stretch sloper. Our lesson, Changing a Steady Knit T-shirt & Sleeve Sloper to a 4-way Stretch Knit Sloper, leads to a sloper that can be utilized for your entire activewear, shapewear and swimwear garment designs.
Designing & Drafting a Minimize & Sew Knit Legging & Unitard
Drafting a Ladies’s Knit Unitard preview Drafting a Legging preview
By combining the 4-way Stretch Knit Sloper, drafted in our lesson Changing a Steady Knit T-shirt & Sleeve Sloper to 4-way Stretch Knit, with the legging drafted in our lesson Drafting a Legging, you’ll discover ways to mix the 2 slopers to draft a unitard from our lesson, Drafting a Ladies’s Knit Unitard.
Designing a Minimize & Sew Knit Hoodie
Drafting a Hooded Knit High preview
Utilizing the sleeveless steady knit T-shirt sloper drafted in our lesson, Drafting a Ladies’s Fitted Steady Knit T-shirt from Measurements you’ll discover ways to draft a hooded knit high product of a cotton/Lycra single knit jersey. We’ll educate you how you can interpret a sketch to so to verify key measurements, such because the neck drop, the neck opening and the peak and width of the hood.
Keep tuned for extra lower & sew knit classes: Drafting a Camisole with a Shelf Bra, a Racerback Halter Tank; and a knit neckline sequence that features: how you can draft an Uneven, Constructed-up, Boatneck, Collared, Cowl, Crewneck, Off Shoulder, Scoop, Sq., Surplice, Turtleneck and a V-Neckline.
