| MACHINE KNITTING TO DYE FOR |
| Gallery |
| Nancy Roberts machine knit and dyed the self-striping yarns for all of the items displayed in this gallery. Unless otherwise indicated, she designed the pattern, and created the final pieces by unraveling the knit fabric and re-knitting or weaving the yarn. |
| Mosaic Stitch Cardigan |
| Fair Isle Folk Vest |
| This sweater looks complicated, but it's made with only two yarns: the multi-colored self-striping yarn and the black contrast yarn. The colored yarn was handspun from a blend of polworth wool, kid mohair and angora. The fiber was carded by Rovings at http://rovings.com |
| Yellow, orange, red self-striping yarn is framed by an immersion dyed deep violet yarn. Vest was re-knit by hand in the round with steeks up the center front and the armholes. The undyed yarn was a commercially spun blue-faced Leicester from Ashland Bay Trading Co. http://ashlandbay.com |
| My First Machine Knit & Dyed Sweater |
| Commercially spun yarn was machine knit and dyed in two contrasting colorways. |
| Zig-Zag Vest |
| Handspun blue-faced Leicester adds luster to this unorthodox Gansey. The traditional textured cables and knit/purl stitches are replicated in two machine knit and dyed self-striping colorways. The sweater was re-knit by hand in the round. The center front was steeked and cut to create the cardigan opening. The sleeves are knit from the top down with gussets under the arms. |
| Ventanitas Vest |
| Electric self-striping colorway is balanced by a solid black contrast yarn. The commercially spun yarn was machine knit and dyed, and then re-knit by hand. Fair Isle stitch motif, Zigzag, is from Kaffe Fasset's Pattern Library, Newtown, Ct: The Taunton Press, 2003. |
| The "little windows" in this vest were hand knit using commercially spun merino yarn that was machine knit and dyed in two self-striping colorways. |
| Chris' Scarf |
| Celtic Cardigan |
| Nancy machine knit and dyed 20/2 silk for the weft yarn and painted the warp yarn in the same colors. Chris Little Carmack wove the scarf in an 8-harness twill pattern. The colorway is Grand Canyon. |
The commerically spun silk used
in this sweater was machine knit
and dyed in two self-striping
colorways. The cardigan was
re-knit on a Silver Reed LK-150
knitting machine. (For more
information about the LK-150
knitting machine, click the link for
Kits & Supplies.)
in this sweater was machine knit
and dyed in two self-striping
colorways. The cardigan was
re-knit on a Silver Reed LK-150
knitting machine. (For more
information about the LK-150
knitting machine, click the link for
Kits & Supplies.)
| Collaborative Scarf 1: Sara's Scarf |
Nancy machine knit and dyed the
12/2 silk for this scarf. Sara
Lamb unraveled the yarn and
wove this 8-harness two-block
twill pattern. (For more
information on Sara Lamb and
how this scarf was woven, see
www.saralamb.com and click
Sara's Blog.) The colorway is
Mardi Gras.
12/2 silk for this scarf. Sara
Lamb unraveled the yarn and
wove this 8-harness two-block
twill pattern. (For more
information on Sara Lamb and
how this scarf was woven, see
www.saralamb.com and click
Sara's Blog.) The colorway is
Mardi Gras.
| Collaborative Scarf 2: Adriana's Scarf |
| Gisela's Scarf |
| Nancy machine knit and dyed 20/2 silk for the weft yarn. Gisela Evitt wove the scarf in an 8-harness twill pattern. The colorway is Plums & Apricots. |
| Karen's Scarf |
| Nancy machine knit and dyed 20/2 silk for the warp yarn. Karen Selk of Treenway Silks (www.treenwaysilks.com), wove the scarf in a warp-faced tabby. The colorway is Spring Meadow. |
| Nancy handspun multi-colored polworth roving from Rovings (http://rovings.com). The yarn was machine knit and over dyed to create a self-striping yarn. Nancy's partner, Adriana Schoenberg, unraveled the yarn and hand knit the scarf. |
| © Machine Knitting To Dye For 2008 |
Stained Glass Tunic
Nancy machine knit and
dyed narrow strips of fabric
to make the self-striping
yarn for this tunic. She
unraveled the strips as she
hand knit her intarsia
design. The yarn is
commercially spun Blue
Face Leceister.
dyed narrow strips of fabric
to make the self-striping
yarn for this tunic. She
unraveled the strips as she
hand knit her intarsia
design. The yarn is
commercially spun Blue
Face Leceister.
| Alhambra Vest |
| Moorish tile designs were the inspiration for this kimono-style vest made from machine knit and dyed wool. Nancy's pattern for this vest can be found in the Summer 2008 issue of Knitwords magazine, www.knitwords.com (go to the Kits & Supplies link for more information.) |
| Gansey Cardigan |
Inspired by Sara Lamb's woven
kimonos, this jacket was machine
knit using five pieces of machine
knit and dyed 12/2 silk. One
additional skein of silk was
spaced-dyed in black and white to
imitate the ikat or jaspe warp
stripes in Lamb's work,
www.saralamb.com.
Adapted from Sewing Workshop
Plaza Jacket sewing pattern:
http://sewingworkshop.com/inde
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kimonos, this jacket was machine
knit using five pieces of machine
knit and dyed 12/2 silk. One
additional skein of silk was
spaced-dyed in black and white to
imitate the ikat or jaspe warp
stripes in Lamb's work,
www.saralamb.com.
Adapted from Sewing Workshop
Plaza Jacket sewing pattern:
http://sewingworkshop.com/inde
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Faux Lamb Jacket
