MAKE
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ALL Knitwear sweaters are designed and constructed by Annie Larson. She uses a standard gauge Brother KH-965i knitting machine and a standard ribber bed, with corresponding DAK software for designing patterns. Each sweater is fully fashioned (knit to shape) and hand-linked together, never cut from yardage or sewn together with a sewing machine. Full fashioning and hand-linking are industry standard marks of quality. All garments are blocked and steamed for a fine finish.
Patterns are knit using Fairisle, a technique that uses only one knitting bed exchanging colors between two separate yarn feeders in the carriage. This method causes the back of the garment to have floats, sections where an unused color forms a loop. Floats are minimized in all sweater designs and horizontal stripes are knit in plain jersey.
Garments will usually be made in one day, knit in the morning and linked in the evening. Imagine me hanging out with your sweater as it is being made, listening to music together and enjoying afternoon coffee.