This past week all of the FIT 4th year students participated in a workshop with the Politecnico students. Each semester the Politecnico students work on a week long project for various companies all over the world. I choose to participate in a workshop for the project Knithink for Peru with the company AspemItalia. I was in a group with 3 Italian students and one Russian student. We had to create a knit garment inspired by Peru. We had five days to create a concept, mood, design, technical information, and knit swatch. Here is what my group came up with...
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| This is our mood board. We were inspired by the poverty in a small town in Peru. |
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| We took our design concept from the amazing women in Peru. We focused on re-designing the basic Aztec tunic while focusing on the graphic boarder at the bottom of their dresses. |
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| This is one of the swatches that I made on the 5 gauge coppo machine. I used a miss stitch to create a graphic effect that mimics the houses in our mood board. |
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| This swatch is another solution to create the pattern that we wanted. Instead of using a miss stitch I designed a Jacquard that I used to create this on the 5 gauge brother machine. |
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| This is our design. Simple yet beautiful. |
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| This is our color card, it mimics the bright colors of South America. |
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| This is the technical page with all of the information about the knit stitches. |
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| This is another technical page with information about the specifics of our garment. |
It was a great project. I had a wonderful time working with both the italians and the company!
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