Final Garment:
The front:
The Back:
Thursday, August 28, 2014
The process..!
Process Photos:
First understand the meaning of working with a garment pattern . <Front>
<Back>
The white yarn that will be Dyed.
The things you will need.
Put half of each pack in the dye. Leave it in for 30 minutes.
Rub the dyed half with the white half.
Grey dye rubbed off on some parts of the clean white yarn.
Lay out for dye.
Dyed yarn is ready for knitting.
Knitting the back pannel.
The back pannel Finished.
Role up the back pannel.
Secure it with elastics.
Dip half of the roled up pannel for 1 hour in the dye.
Dip the other side in the dye for 30seconds.
Back pannel, after dying and dried, but was not quite happy with the end result.
Took a brush and painted lines on the pannel, aswell as used the brush to splat dye over the back pannel. Afterwards, rub the wet fresly painted dye with the rest of the knitted pannel.
Leave out to drye.
Finish Front piece.
Fiished front pannels after they were knitted with the yarn that were dyed.
The pattern i worked out to create the sleeves.
Ribbing were only used for the arms.
The two sleeves which are finished knitted.
The Materials task..!
Materials Task
Knitting
and weaving differences:
Knitting and weaving
are two different techniques but mostly gave the same result as a piece of art.
In the process of knitting, it is made by using two-dimensional fabric which is
made there in yarn or also known as thread. In the technique of weaving, the
thread will always be in a straight line running parallel in lengthwise or also
in crosswise. By contrast the yarn which is used in a knitted piece of fabric
follows a course and create a synthetic loop on the top and bottom mean path of
the yarn. A knitted garment can as much as 500% stretch it all depends on the
yarn that is being used as well as the pattern one is busy following. This were
in the beginning what knitting was made for because of the elastic or stretch
to response to the wearer’s notions for example socks even hosiery. The thread
that designers use in creating a weave is most of the time finer that what
designers will use in a knitting pattern and for that reason it gave knitting
the ability to form bulk and less draping that a fabric which if woven.
Different
types of Ribbing:
The reason behind the
design of rib stitches it that your garment doesn’t curl up vertically nor
horizontally and that it remains a flat surface. It is also designed to give
your knitting a rib effect or a vertical ridge. By the use of a basic rib it is
made out of stocking stitch and reverse stocking stitch that is alternated. The
stripes that the ribbing make is also known as wales. The yarn which is use in
ribbing is passed between stiches, from the back of your work for the knit
stiches, to the front for purl stitches. The knitted pieces which is ribbing
will always feel thicker than stocking stitch so it has a firm fit, as well as
it will be knitted in a smaller needle than what is used to knit the rest of
the garment. Knitted ribbing is use in garments for the cuffs, the edged around
the garments, scarves, mats, rugs as well as fitted thick winter garments.
Farrow Rib
Stitch: This ribbing is much neater than the rest with a
flat appearance and slight stretch because of the moss stitch that took place
between the ribs. When done correctly, both of the sides will look identically
and is a bit more open than a basic rib. It is not made to be used as cuffs
because its elasticity is weak. Each of the rows are knitted the same therefore
it is easier to master the technique.
Sand
Stitch rib: Using the technique of sand stitch ribbing, it is
knitted in a vertical row with a sand stich between every second knitted stich
in a rib pattern. It is mostly use to accommodate wider rib stitch patterns. It
has a very neat finish as well as a different appearance and most of the
elasticity is lost that a proper rib stitch contain. It is made out of a right
and wrong side and is mostly not recommended for scarves neither edgings.
Fisherman’s Rib: This technique is originally invented for the fisherman which goes out in cold winter on the sea. This technique take up much more yarn than other ribbing almost doubled to be exact. It creates a think, soft spongy feeling garment where both sides look the same. An advantage of fisherman’s rib stretches both in width and length and forms deep loose ridges with a soft feeling.
Drop Shoulder Sleeve:
The drop shoulder
style is one of the simplest design pattern of any style sleeves. The body is
shaped as a rectangular with very little shaping. The body with goes over the
actual shoulder line and is possible that no sleeves is necessary making the
garment into a pullover. The shape of the sleeves are also a basic rectangle
that is finer by the wrist. The sleeve will always be created shorter than the
actual arm size where the upper part of the sleeve does not reach the shoulder.
The length of the upper edge of the sleeve equals two times the depth of the
armscye. When the whole garment is put together the sleeves will form the right
body angle.
Set-In
Sleeve:
The lines of a set in sleeve express itself
as simple but when shaping take place of each individual piece, it became more
complex that what a drop shoulder is. The area of the shoulder is cut away so
that that whole of the arm can be exposed. The armscye begin at the side seam
which then curves to the body in an even increasing slope until the armscye
line is more or less in a vertical line. The sleeve tapers from the bicep line
towards the waist, where above the line of the bicep, the sleeve cap gently
moves towards the shoulder point. Often you get knitted garments that are designed so that the
sleeve cap and front and back armscye are symmetric where in reality, our
bodies aren't that symmetric, but the stretch in knit fabric allows for this
tiny cheat.
The
Raglan Sleeve:
The Dolman Sleeve:
Different types of Neck Shapes:
·
V-Neck
·
Crew Neck (a
basic "T-shirt" or "rounded" neck opening)
·
"Sport"
Neck (This neck most likely resemble a crew
neck, except for the front of the yoke is slit open and plackets are knitted on
each side of the opening.)
Gauge in knitted designs:
The term Gauge is both used in machine knitting and
hand knitting. It refers to the number of stiches per inch where in our case if
will work in centimetre and not to what the size of the garment are.it is
measured by a number of stitches or even a number of needles over several
centimetres which is then divided by the centimetres in width.
The gauge will also depend on how many stiches of
the pattern fit into the fabric, the kind of yarn use, what size needle you use
as well as the tension the knitter use. For
example, the ribbing and also the cable patterns tend to
"pull in" which gives more stitches over an identical width than
stockinette, garter, or seed stitch. Even the same stitch produced in two
different ways may produce a different gauge. Thicker yarns will produce larger
stiches that what thinner needles would have produced. Because of the large
stitches that larger needles provide, there will be fewer stitches in a row per
centimetre. By changing one’s needles is the best possible way to have control
over the gauge for any given pattern as well as yarn. The tension of the knitter
plays a big role where it can affect the gauge significantly. One can play
variation gauge in a single garment where when you become more relaxed with the
stitch pattern one will become more relaxed to stitch differently and produce
different gauge. Designers deliberately alter the gauge in a garment usually by
needle size for example the smaller stitches will be knitted with smaller
needles, this is usually used for the collar or the cuffs of the sleeves.
To
produce a knitted garment where the dimensions are given, doesn’t matter if it
is from one's own design or from a published pattern, the gauge must
match as closely as possible; significant differences in gauge will lead to a
deformed garment. Most patterns that once can buy will always suggest gauge for
the project.
What I Did for my Garment:
Because I didn’t had any traditional pieces I could work off
and also the reason of being far from home, it clogged my design thinking,
material wise. Because I focused more on the person I am today and to things I
can access, rather than trying to think into the past and not getting access to
what I was maybe looking for, I decided to focus on tie dye because it stays a
big part in who I am, and the mellow vibe I’m usually in.
T-shirt fabric is the easiest to dye and just my luck it
came already in yarn form. There are 3 different balls in colour wise; black,
white and light grey. The white I took and dyed half of it black making it another
shade of grey, the black I first knitted and then dyed black merging the two
shades of grey into each other.
We had to use the Raglan pattern. At first I was scared because
I’m not a fashion designer and I don’t know how to make garments. We first had
to draw out a regular pattern on paper followed by a raglan pattern. The arms
also had to be worked out. The raglan front and back panels are easier to knit
as the arms are. I chose the colours specifically to contrast the good and the
bad in my life with the vines flowing of the tie dye method much so how my
stories flowed.
The back I started with a 15mm needle, using 50 stitches, I
knitted 12 rows and switched to a 20mm needle where a few rows were knitted and
I tried the double wrap knit to create bigger stitches for 5 rows. I only
knitted 3 more rows before I began to decrease. I knitted a stitch and then two
together, knitted the rest of the stitches till only 3 were left on the needle
I knitted two together and knit the last stitch, this followed for every row
till there were only 20stitches left and I finished off the piece. I decided on
a cardigan because I personally doesn’t not like jerseys and jackets that is
closed, I like open garments. The front panels are 15 stitches each ranging
between the normal knitting and the double wrap for long stitches. The arms is
plain continental knitted in black so that the focus is more place on the front
and the back. I didn’t want a neckline because it uncomfortable and unnecessary.
I wanted to experiment with my garment, testing my own pattern and don’t work
from an original one. Ribbing were just incorporated in the arms for a tighter
fit where as for the edges around the garment I liked garments that are chunky
and hang loose as well as the roll up effect the knitting panels provide.
After the sewing up were done of all 5 pannels, i ran out of time and wished there were more time to put in a colour, but overall im happy with my first attempt of knitting a jersey!
Insperation..!
Why Choose Tye Dye as my main Insperation:
Iv
always have been a bubbly person. Wearing tie dye is my way of showing comfort,
it is what best describe me. All tie dye
techniques express a bundle of emotion almost like going to the carnival, its
loud, cheerful and full if colours, not to mean the spiral it express as the
life pattern runs in a circle.
The
vains expressed in tie dye techniques also known as the running lines would
express my family tree, as well as the support system I have. The garment is
composed out of three colours namely black, grey and white. For those who knows
me well will know that is my bases colour I wear evryday with a slight dash of
colour in either a T-Shirt or socks or even shoes.
Some
of the stories reflecting in this jersey were written by a friend of mine,
Marlie in a previous post called “A friend wrote my story”. Basicly it goes
about me who is living with an illness for the rest of my life and because of
greater illnesses in the family, scared that my illness would develop in
something more serious over the years. Another part is my grandfather who died
which had an impact on me as to the way I am. This part were reflected on the
back pannel of my jersey which I first knitted and then dyed. Because I was not
so happy of the end result of the back pannel, I desided to take a paint brush
and paint lines on the back with dye and express myself by dipping the brush in
the dye and splat it on the back pannel. Because it were still wet it allowed
me to rub the wet dye across the jersey making the lines not so obvious. There
are a lot happening at the back expressing my past and my fear of illness,
where as for the lines at the back is more represented by my family who always
protects me and support me no matter what. It can also be seen as scars in a
way of stitches that is sen up seing it as a wound that is beginning to heal.
The
white yarn is firstly dyed with black couloring but because I only left the
yarn in the dye for half an hour it came out grey and not black. This mistake I
did not mind at all as for it shows me trying to break through everything which
were rough in my past. The front is much lighter as to what the back express. The
back is the dark side, overcoming the illness aswell a the past by stitching up
the wounds and return to who I am. The front, because it is so light reflect on
the start of something new, the old me being happy thowhing off the weat which
layed like a mountain on my shoulders.
I kept
the sleeves simple and black as to what it keep me on earth, the support of
family and friends aswell as I wanted the front and back pannel speaking my
stories and not my jersey being overly customized.
Insperational Tye Dye..!
Tie dye have an emotional meaning!
Tie Dye
To see or wear a tie
dye in your dream suggests that you are feeling upbeat and groovy. You are in a
happy mood. It is also symbolic of free love. Perhaps the dream is welcoming a
new relationship. You need to open up yourself to love.
Tie Dye poem by West Winds
Tie-Dye T-Shirts
Tie-Dye T-shirts
should come with some directions!
This gosh-awful mess
will never pass inspections!
The red is really
messy, and the black has come undone.
Still, it's rather
great to do this and I've really had some fun!
I'll make all these
for presents, for Dad and for my Mum.
I hope the dye is
permanent and the colors will not run.
Red dye is quite
chancy, and you have to wash with cold.
If it works out well,
though, the shirts will look quite bold.
This is such a bloody
mess, I feel quite horrified.
Don't look at me too
closely...
I think I look...
just awful... quite like a deadly bride.-
>The Knitted me <-_-> who Am I
>The Knitted me <-_-> Who am I<
An ABC to who am I..
A - Adorable, ambitious, abnormal
B - Bright, brave, big hearted
C - Charming, cheerful, complicated
D - Determined, delightful, denying
E - Eager, energetic, enchanting
F - Faithful, friendly, funny
G - Generous, gullible, good
H - Helpful, hilarious, hurt
I - indulgent, impatient,
J - Joyful, jealous
K - Kind, knowledgeable
L - loving, likable, loud
M - Mature, modern, moody
N - Nice, negative, neat
O - outgoing, obedient
P - Proud, protective, polite
Q - Quick, quiet
R - Respectful, romantic, responsible
S - Silly, smiling, spontaneous
T - Talented, trustworthy, tough
U - Unusual, upbeat, unique
V - Vigorous, valuable
W - Warm, witty, well- mannered
X -*
Y -*
Z -*
What we call tradition..!
Some family tradition..
As long as I could
have remember, the one tradition which never changed was to go camping at
Swartvlei. The family would all gather at Hartenbos where from there everyone
would travel to Swartvlei. For those who doesn’t know where Swartvlei is it is
on your way to Knysna between the mountains. It’s all you can ask for, silence
with the river walking just in front of your camping site and the sea being
just a rock throw away. The baboons and monkeys trying to rob you at night and
having fun with building sandcastles. When I got a little bit older and start
going to school it became all more difficult for the whole family to travel
because of school. I am the oldest on my mom’s side also the first born, and
first grandchild. For my grandpa, I was his apple of his eye and had and still
have everyone wrapped around my little pinkly.
Another family
tradition is Chrismas time. My grandparents live in hartenbos in a security
villa. We also have a house there as well as my uncle and aunt. My dad’s mom
also moved there after the past away of my grandfather. Each year, the day
before Christmas, actually it all started with a week before Christmas, my
grandmother send a note to every house in the villa letting them know there
will be a Christmas drive, instructing them if they want Santa coming to their
house delivering presents all the presents must be delivered at my grandparents’
house on the 23rd of December with the house number where this black
bag of presents must be delivered. The day before Christmas, I being the oldest
always were in with what was really going on and ill help my grandmother fill
large bags of sweet. Summoned with a single cap truck will be the driver,
dressing up as Santa’s elf. There will be a chair placed on the back where
Santa (my grandfather dressing up in a Santa suite) will sit on with me as his
helper as my grandmother being misses Santa! The truck will start at the first
street a bell would be rang very loudly and the children would came running
out. At each number we stopped the child is put on Santa’s lap and he will get
his presents. So will all the streets be done with the children running after
the truck and me and my grandparents throwing them sweets. Not only children
were included but with each year the adults became more inventive playing
practical pranks on their neighbours by delivering them a lump of charcoal or
even just a piece of wood. This family tradition went on for years till this
day even if it rains or very hot the tradition continues.
Smaller family
traditions will include as a family on Friday night, all will sit in front of
the TV and play Noot vir Noot, which is a musical game show and we will become
very competitive with each other, checking who can collect the most money if
they were playing the real game. December vacations changed from camping in
Swartvlei to camping in Hartenbos and going from the whole family to just
parents and my brother. Mondays was the
night for the Spur burger special. Friday nights was school functions and
Saturdays the whole family is alongside the sport fields with me playing hockey
and my brother being the rugby player. Because I’m from outshoorn and the only
family also living in oudtshoorn is my aunt and uncle and their family, so it
would became a tradition if it is one of the children or grandchildren’s
birthday all the grandparents will come from Hartenbos and stay with the family
where the birthday is.
There is not really
family traditions like tea seats that’s being passed down or jewellery. We are
a family who created their own little traditions. All piece I can remember is
the blanket made out of different coloured block which has been knitted was
given to me when I was born and so it was the same with every grandchild
thereafter. I got all my art instincts from my grandmother. She was the one who
taught me how to do ceramics on an age of 6, then I didn’t really know much and
just keep messing around while she was busy. She taught me to paint, make jewellery,
making any objects even handmade frames. She were the one who taught me to knit,
making me use my hands to create products and not just go buy it. She will be
my biggest inspiration behind studying design and being the artsy girl I am
today.
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