Over the last wee while I’ve been trying to play around with different garment ideas. Those who are clued up on knitty related matters will know that working with knitwear raises all kinds of little bothers to overcome when it comes to constructing even very simple shaped garments.. Obviously, you can’t just knit a huge square of fabric and pattern cut into it as the continuous thread of the fabric would just unravel - disaster!
At Art School I always had access to a linker, a very clever machine that sort of catches the stitches from the different panels of fabric and stitches them neatly together.. perfect! If you look at any edge on the inside of a cardigan or the like you will see the lovely little neat edge it leaves behind.
Not having the lovely linker at my disposal has meant I’ve been playing around with alternative ways of joining panels together and I reckon I’ve managed to find a way of doing this on my trusty viking that i think works pretty well…
Yes, it doesn’t seem like much but to me it opens up a lot more possibilities for my designs .. and yes, thats my arm just for trial purposes.. baby steps!