Knitwear Design

K is having a huge & exciting experience with Knitwear class this semester.

Some of this interest started last spring in a Fashion Design class. She was to design outfits based on something significant from where she is from and she chose to use corn & soybean fibers for knitting.

This is part of her display for that project and the knit swatches are brown & navy.

She has been searching for more information on this since then. Phil found an article on a lady in Iowa that uses corn fibers for knitting. Over Christmas break, K searched and found an email for her.

Now they have corresponded several times and.... as of tonight, Diane is custom dyeing corn fiber yarn for K's final Knitwear Design project!!

In between the then & now, she sent K a large box of corn fibers in various stages as well as a skein of variegated yarn for K to try.
She used this sample package as part of her presentation for another fashion class,

then donated samples to the Fashion Resource Department,

made herself a hat,
and is buying some of the fibers now from Diane for her final Knitwear project.

She sent K some sample colors to choose from -
K made a swatch of "autumn":
Her final project is a knit outfit and I think you'll really like the final result. She has designed it and when the yarn arrives will start knitting! She enjoys the knitting and others say she is fast so that will help.