cutting & pasting...

The past week I’ve been getting more and more worried about my communication. At the proposition I had the idea that I would make a website that was basically worked like a pdf file of my process. I’ve been thinking a bit more about it, and given the advantages and disadvantages of the internet I’m not totally convinced that putting my process out there sits right with me. I understand that’s a stupid thing to say given that I’m putting it all out there with this blog, but I guess I’m thinking about how much of the process I want to give out.

Onto the things that aren’t so confusing, well less so compared to communication. Illustrator has become my best friend lately. I’m using it to create my weft knit structures, and it’s made it easier to understand how the knit’s work. I can clearly see now how the purl stitch works in comparison to a stocking stitch, looking at drop stitches and even creating my own. I’m not sure how stable my constructions would be but it’s something I can keep developing. Illustrator makes it really simple to resize, cut, paste, rotate and duplicate the constructions. I’m constantly learning, trying to figure out why some shapes work and others don’t link up. I’ll have to start using fabric in the next week but at the moment I’m just getting used to creating and altering the knits.

Above- Illustrator diagram of weft knit

Above- Paper version of weft knit