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Zukii History - Knitwear Design
Zukii Designs has always been about beautiful, fashionable designs. At
the beginning, Zukii Designs offered a series of classes to turn passionate
knitters into knitwear designers. Each class in the six-part series was
four months long. Here is a little history about those unique classes.
Knitwear Fashion Design Series
The Knitwear Design series gives everyone from beginners to fashion designers
great learning options. The series is designed to steadily build your
design skills and techniques. When you're done, you will be able to make
any garment you can imagine.
(classes are no longer offered)
Knitwear Design I
This course introduces you to knitwear design, and single-bed machine
knitting techniques. Techniques covered include casting on, increasing/decreasing,
hand tooled rib, binding off, neckline shaping, shoulder shaping, blocking
and finishing. You will learn how to design and chart a sweater from an
existing sweater and from body measurements. Design elements covered include
ribbed hems, ribbed neckband, and the drop sleeve. You will knit your
design using the techniques and design elements covered in the course.
Knitwear Design II
This course allows you to build on your knowledge of single-bed knitting
by introducing color and texture stitches. Both hand tooling and pattern
cards will be used to create stripes, fairisle, tuck, slip, thread lace,
transfer lace, cables, garter, and seed stitches. Knitwear design elements
covered include V-neck, funnel neck, and turtleneck shaping and finishing,
as well as, the modified drop sleeve and raglan sleeve. You will design
a sweater using techniques and design elements covered in the course.
Knitwear Design III
This course covers the fundamentals of double-bed machine knitting with
the introduction of the ribber. You will learn a variety of double-bed
stitches including 1x1, 2x2, full needle rib, english rib, cables, and
tuck. Knitwear design elements covered include the set-in sleeve, cardigan
band, and simple buttonholes. You will design a cardigan using techniques
and design elements covered in the course.
Knitwear Design IV
This course covers the design and knitting of elements used in dresses,
pants, skirts, and coats. These elements include darts, gathers, slits,
pleats, ruffles, waistbands, facings, collars, gores, buttonholes, folded
hems and bands, sideways knitting, and bias knitting. You will design
a garment using elements covered in the course.
Knitwear Design V
This course covers advanced knitwear design and machine knitting techniques.
Single- and double-bed color work will include double-bed jacquard, intarsia,
motif, multi-color slip, multi-color tuck, and weaving. Other advanced
techniques covered include lace knitting with the lace carriage and ‘cut
and sew’. You will design a garment using techniques covered in
the course.
Knitwear Design VI – Knitwear Collection
Using the knowledge and experience obtained in Knitwear Design I-V, you
will design and knit a collection consisting of a minimum of 8 garments.
As a part of the design process, you will produce sketches, knit fabric
swatches, and plan design and production strategies.
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