ConnieLene – KnitDesigner

This piece was created for my Colour Play Exhibition held in Auckland at the Randolph Street Gallery, at Whitecliffe School of Fine Arts and Design in 2007.

There were, and still are many purple yarns in my stash. I created this sweater using mohair, and many other yarns that knitted at a similar tension. I do not have a pattern for the sweater or for the intarsia design on it – it is knitted in free form.

It was created from the waistband which I knitted in the round. I then knitted the front and the back at the same time up to the shoulders – (back and forth not circularly).

This enabled me to continue the colours at the sides so that when stitched together the design wrapped around and it reduced the effect of the side seam. The shoulders were bound off with a 3 needle cast off. The neck band was originally a rib knitted in the round. I ripped that out and knitted a semi cowl collar in stocking stitch and reverse stocking stitch. I liked it so much I ripped out the waist band and knitted the new waistband down using the same yarns and stitches as at the neck. The cuffs were knitted down from the sleeve in rib.

I have knitted many sweaters in this way, with free form intarsia on a knitted shape. This is the first where I have removed the original neckline and waistline ribs and replaced them with stocking stich and reverse stocking stitch finish.

The owner of it loves it.