Knitting Nancy-vest

The second vest consists of tubes made on the knitting Nancy machine. I had experimented with this earlier on in the semester inspire by Anna Clifton’s work. The loops I made with the knitting Nancy tool were too flimsy so I had to seek an option to make it look full. I used this tubing, which is called crinoline used in millinery. Nowhere in Melbourne had any in stock so I had to order it from Sydney and it just arrived in time!!

Hand knitted underwear.

Knitted high waist undies

Here are images of the progress of the undies.

It will be worn with the looped vest and made with the black knitting machine knit.

ARGH THE VEST!

Here are the loops prepared before hand sewing them all together to form the vest.

The loops were a nightmare to turn through, as I didn’t want any raw edges underneath, therefore they had to be turned inside out to the right side, but because the tubes are soooo thick it was so hard to turn through. One piece took about half an hour just to turn through. I tried all methods with a broom stick to even hitting it against the table. In the end I persisted and this is what I achieved.

Loop vest progress.

The steps involved in making one of the loops.

vested up?

My third garment is a vest, it rather sculptural consiting of knitted panels.. Inspired by this sample I did earlier on in the semester.

I wanted to get a rough idea how the strips would sit on the body and how long I would need to knit the pieces and join them together. Above is a rough calico toile.

machine knit The cut and sew method

Yesterday I used the domestic knitting machine, at first it started playing up, dropping stitches and created a tough tension. It didn’t help that I was getting frustrated because it was my final, but when Aly suggested give it some loving it then ran smoothly. I was only able to cast on a few stitches width wise, instead of the whole width of the machine, therefore I had to knit up such a long piece. Here is a photo of the piece I knitted and laying up and cutting out.