knitting for bespoke tailoring?

is it feasible to handknit an entire garment to an exact set of measurements?

is it feasible to do "fittings" of thusly-knitted garment before completion?

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dances_with_barkadas
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Yes, it is possible to handknit an entire garment to a set of measurements. There are two ways to do it. One is to knit the garment full-fashioned, with shaping incorporated. The other is to knit "yardage" and to cut and sew the knitted fabric to size. Knits have more ease than woven fabrics. With a full-fashioned garment, changes should be made before beginning the knitting. With cut-and-sew, fittings can be done. The knit fabric should be machine stitched along all unfinished edges to prevent raveling during the process.

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Pogonip

Most of the bespoke clothing, suits, and finely fitted higher end clothes, are made with a lot of different padding and specialized fabric underlayment pieces, I would think that it could be done, but you would probably have to have a bit of knowledge about the uses of that sort of sewing, to pull it off. It might be a fun project to try for yourself, just to see what you could do. Why not give it a try. Pick up one of the tailoring books that are out there, and see if you can adapt what you do to that sort of thing, and let that guide your choice of whether it might work for you. Who knows, you may start a whole new "look".

John

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John

I never tried it, but I know at one time fine knitting was done in pieces, from which a pattern was cut for the garment, and the pieces stitched together. It was soon after the finer home knitting machines became common, and I haven't heard of its being done these days.

Joyce in RSA.

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joyce

I once made a little tailored winter coat for a little girl that was made in pieces and had interlining and lining. It was a project that needed lots of time and effort, but it was really great looking. I never, ever attempted anything like that again for the obvious reasons. Mind you, that was for a little girl who didn't have the curvy figure of a grown up and the fit was easier.

It was a long time ago but I remember that the lining was done on a sewing machine, but the knitted parts were put together by hand.

Lucille

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Lucille

Any thing can be knit to fit First you have to have a guague take your wanted wool , cast on 20 stitches knit 6 rows in jerssey = knit to end turn work purl to end now if you have a pattern in mind , make one repeat of the pattern or at least 6 rows of it

if you feel that knit and or purl are too tight or too loose try it with a dufferent size of needle , work should be soft to touch not to stiff nore too loose.

now take the knitted piece off the needle andmeasure it while it is loose but not too loose = put on measure tape straighten with a finger , so that there is no rolled end , measure and write 20 st in jesey = X inches or Cm

now draw your wanted clothing item measure the intended wearer , and you can translate each meaurement to number of stitches ,,

curves etc you can calculate how much to add or distract over what length ...

if you never did it maybe you should find a good book or a UTUBE that shows you how .. mirjam

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mirjam

I now do it all without one seam i calculate a lot and make it all in one piece without seams mirjam

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mirjam

Where have you been? I've missed seeing your posts! Hope you can stick around.

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Pogonip

Hallo Joanne , of course i stick around , esp since i can always use my knitting needles to stick at reading and sometimes writing here , and my sewing and embroidery needles to stick in the subjects i don`t agree with.

All the Time in Israel , mostly in Haifa , with some traveling to Jerushalayim , to visit a friend or /and going to listen to some specail lectures or congresses or conventions that interest me.

I Curated an exhibition for a friend who is also an Artist/Curator , but decided she can`t curate her own exhibition + launching a book that included a collection of her writing +related works. I have Curated artists/curtaors before , but as artists in a group exhibtion . this was a new experience since it was all about her art. Thus we had some serious talking before working , in which we agreed which `job` each of us will do, and how and when we should be responsible , when she has her Curator`s ideas. It was a very interesting , intelectual as well as a emotional process. We had to Ballance friendship , professional decisions, Tottal different opinions towards how one should arrange an exhibition . I am proud to say we came out even better friends , we both learned from each other`s curating ideas.

Our daughter Hosted Roberto Gini for a set concerts, with her Barouque trio , and they peformed all over in full halls .[he also gave master classes, and he also stayed in our house and we traveled the north with him and had great fun] .

Our friend with the Fiber gallery closed after 100 exhibitions she put in 16 years. But we [ she and me] are now going to exhibit "the Magic Wands " we showed at her gallery , with more items [ it is a bigger gallery] , in Holon [ next week ] thus we were busy working with the artists etc.... as i also exhibit in this [ hence the Co -Curating] , i made a third work , to add to the 2 i showed in the first exhibition. this time ui made a work that relates to the fact that a Knitting stitch is called AYIN in Hebrew . Ayin is also an EYE , and a Spring [of water] , thus i knitted a pictorial image of all kinds of Idioms and pharses that use the word Ayin=Eye it was such a fun playful work to do ... Now it is finished and the other Cuartor accepted it with a smile .. She could of course not like it ... but she did .

thank you for the Interest and thus i told you some of the things that happened ,, Be well mirjam

 I've missed seeing your posts!  Hope you can stick
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mirjam

Dear Mirjam, So glad to see you among the world of us sewing people. You have been a very busy lady. I know that you have been knitting up a storm. I follow you in that area, just haven't done much to feel I can contribute there. Stay with us here .We all love you wit and expertise. You are a great contributor. Juno

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Juno B

You have been busy!! I'm glad to see that. Sometimes when someone doesn't post for a long time, we learn that it is for reasons that make us unhappy, such as illness or life problems, but it makes us very happy when someone is just busy doing interesting things as you have been. It is wonderful to learn of all your activities! I look forward to seeing more from you.

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Pogonip

Thank You Juno ,, i must admit i also have been sewing , last and not least Cloth bags , for shoping [ giving them as presents to all the Nylon lovers :>:>:>:>} , other bags for storing all kinds of things ,, and of course recycling my clothes ,,,,The thing with knitting is that i can carry it with me ,,,, my sewing machine doesn`t like to be carried around ,,,,, By the way i have read a book called "the Seamstress " by Frances de Pontes Peebles, As i read the Hebrew transaltion from the Portugues , i can`t tell you who published it , i bought it because of the name , had no clue what it was , and could not stop reading it !!!! a wonderful name ,,, strangely enough the reason i bought it , stoped others from buying it ,,, their loss !!!!

thnak you for the Compliments ,, i am blushing mirjam

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mirjam

Thank you Joanne , yes i try to be busy in a positive way ,,, and wish all that they can enjoy creative pleasures , like making cloth things mirjam

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mirjam

There was an article in threads years ago (before volume 60 when they moved to sewing only) in which a woman hand knit a gorgeous houndstooth knit suit - couture quality and style- she gave a great explanation of how she did it - how they wrote the pattern, knit it in pieces (just like pattern pieces) and lined the whole thing. Took her over a yearto do the knitting alone! If you have the Threads CD of all past volumes you may be able to find it. Well worth the reading even though it convinced me life is too short for me to attempt that.

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jmcdowell

I am leaving the cross posting in this time so that people at rec.crafts.textile.sewing.alt etc will know that sew girls is just using your post and making money off posts you make for free in usenet. They sell advertising on their site, that's how they do it.

I don't like helping them make a buck off many people who don't even understand they are being used !

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lucretiaborgia
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They are archiving public messages on Usenet, really no different than the archive google.com maintains (and has maintained for many years):

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I was not happy when sewgirls.com first started up, but at least they actually do terminate spammers who sign up and attempt to take advantage of discussion-only Usenet groups. Since I do not read alt-sewing on sewgirls.com, I never see the ads.

On the other hand, google.com / gmail.com does absolutely squat about their spammers.

YMMV

Reply to
BEI Design

Piggybacking because I never saw the original post.

You're looking for a book called _Knitting from the Top_ by Barbara Walker. It was published in 1972 by Charles Scribner. In 1996, Schoolhouse Press photocopied and re-issued the vital parts, omitting the photographs of finished garments. I don't think either edition is available for purchase now, but if you are in the U.S., Interlibrary Loan should turn it up fairly quickly.

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Joy Beeson

------------------------------------- During the 1950's it became very stylish for rich wives to have a custom-made dress KNITTED to her exact figure by a European. The dresses were so specific to the lady, that they could not be passed down or traded to anyone. They were very beautiful and difficult because they were knit as a solid piece, not put together from separate form pieces. They were shaped as they were made, just like a sock with a built-in heel and toe shape. In fact, there was an old movie I saw once where a lady earned her living making these dresses from orders that came from a pricey dress shop clientele. In this movie, there was always one or two dresses on a form, sitting in the background of the film. And this actress was playing the part of a rich needleworker - she made g-o-o-d money knitting!

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lily_lacemaker

Another 'lost' poster from Sew Girls who is responding to an 8 month old post, to the day, no less. I don't know why they don't look at the dates of these posts they're dragging up as they are plainly there on the Sew Girls site.

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ItsJoanNotJoann

Because they really don't care ! It's about the ads they sell around their group and they have the gall to pick up posts from our groups, without any acknowledgement that they have stolen them without express permission just to keep the sew girls going and make it appear to people buying ads that it's busy as a bee.

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lucretiaborgia

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