Description

From Style Vision to Reality: Crafting Knitwear That Truly Fits

Forget the frustration of ill-fitting garments and the limitations of patterns that don’t quite capture your essence. This course is designed specifically for knitters who want to create clothes that feel like a second skin — clothes that truly make you feel comfortable and confident in your own skin.  I believe that apparel patterns should put you front and centre of the design process, allowing you to express yourself authentically and take pride in your skills.  Designing custom knitting patterns to reflect your personal style is part of this solution.

The Made to Measure Knitwear course provides you with reliable frameworks and processes that go beyond generic solutions. You’ll learn how to anchor your artistry in solid principles, ensuring your unique designs are not just beautiful but also wearable and long-lasting. Imagine opening your closet each morning, knowing that every piece was crafted by you, for you, ready to uplift you for whatever the day brings. The emotional energy, money, and time you’ve spent struggling with ill-fitting clothes can now be redirected to what truly matters: making your creative dreams come true.

What You’ll Master in This Transformative Course:

My comprehensive course guides you step-by-step through the process of bringing your knitwear visions to life.

Design – Visualizing Your Unique Personal Style

This foundational module is where your journey truly begins. We’ll dive into basic drawing skills and visual research, not because you need to be a fine artist, but because having a clear visual reference of what you want to wear is the ultimate launchpad for successful design. You’ll discover how to effectively articulate your vision, even if you’ve never picked up a pencil for design before. I’ll show you techniques that help you appreciate the true value of your initial knitwear design ideas, setting you up for success.

Building on these visual communication skills, you’ll then apply them to the exciting world of surface pattern design, silhouette, garment styling, and fabrication. This is where your ideas start to connect with your body and your emotions. You’ll learn powerful design techniques specifically crafted to maximize the potential of your ideas, helping you conserve energy and focus your creativity where it counts.

Knitwear Design Realisation: Getting to the “Bones” of Your Garment

This is where the magic truly happens: pattern drafting. You’ve established your visual connection and articulated your design.  Now it’s time to translate that vision into concrete measurements and shapes. This module tackles the maths head-on, in a way that’s exciting, challenging, and incredibly rewarding. The compositional relationships you established in the previous modules will begin to take form, transforming your artistic concepts into a tangible blueprint for your knitted garment.

Your body shape will be as inspirational as your visual research as you incorporate custom design and fit details to style your garments. Along the way, the penny will drop about WHY you’ve needed certain fit alterations over the years — and you’ll be spurred on to engineer your own solutions besides. It’s also time to write up your notes into a knitting pattern and get some stitches on the needles!  This is where you synthesise everything you’ve researched and calculated and start knitting up your made-to-measure knitwear — all custom designed by you. This is the beginning of a more positive relationship with yourself, your body, and the creative talent that’s been waiting for you to give it a chance — in the right learning environment.

What You’ll Need For Designing Custom Knitting Patterns:

• A set of drawing pencils, B to 6B softness
• An A3 or A4 sketchpad
• An A5 sketchbook for design inspiration when you’re going about your day
• A scientific calculator with parentheses/brackets, pi, and trigonometry functions.
• Pen and paper for note-taking.
• Pencil and ruler for drafting (a mechanical pencil with 2H to HB leads is ideal).
• Squared or grid paper (A4 or letter size). For inches, you’ll need quarter-inch (quad or quadrille) paper (4 boxes per inch). For centimetres, 5mm x 5mm squared paper (2 boxes per centimetre). Printable links will be provided if you can’t find a pad!

You don’t need years of industry experience or complex accreditations.  What you need is genuine human contact and guidance from someone who does, and understands the intricacies of garment fit and design.  Someone who can help you take everything you need and run with it.

Natalie in Stitches: Conditional Satisfaction Guarantee

I am confident that when you apply the curriculum and actively participate in the community, you will achieve your knitwear design goals. Because this course provides a high level of personalized support, formative feedback, and access to a professional community, I require a good-faith effort to ensure the programme is right for you.

My Policy:

A full refund of your course tuition is available within 30 calendar days of your initial enrolment date, provided you meet the following conditions:

Refund Eligibility Conditions:

1. Time Limit: Your refund request must be submitted via email to me no later than 11:59 PM UK time on the 30th day after your purchase date.
2. Good-Faith Effort: You must demonstrate that you have actively engaged with the course content up to the point of your request.
   • Specifically, to be eligible for a refund, you must have:
     • Completed 100% of the lessons in Module 1.
     • Submitted the required formative assignment for Module 1 for feedback, or provided documentation that you have fully completed the assignment instructions.
     • Participated in at least one (1) peer feedback, one-to-one feedback, or community discussion within the course platform.
3. Content Access: You must have viewed less than 25% of the total course video content available at the time of the request (to account for the dripped schedule).

Non-Eligibility (No Refund Issued If):

• You request a refund after the 30-day limit has passed.
• You have not demonstrated a good-faith effort by completing the required assignments outlined above.
• You have not logged into the course platform.
• You purchased the course simply to “check it out” without the intention of doing the work.

My Commitment to You:

This policy ensures that my instructional and community resources are dedicated to students who are serious about their design journey. If you put in the effort, and genuinely feel the course is not for you, I will gladly refund your investment.

Note on Access: Enrolment provides lifetime access to the course content and future updates. However, the refund window is strictly limited to the first 30 days and subject to the conditional requirements above.

And just WHO am I to tell you about knitwear design and personal style?  Well…

I’m Natalie, a 4th-generation dressmaker and university-trained knitwear designer. My passion is empowering knitters like you to generate and customise patterns that help you look and feel beautiful, regardless of your shape or size. In an era of formulaic drafting, I refuse to compromise on solid pattern cutting principles, so you can trust in creating beautiful clothes that both fit and last a lifetime.

Join the Made to Measure Knitwear course and embark on the most fulfilling knitting journey of your life — one where your creativity knows no bounds, and your wardrobe truly reflects the wonderful you.

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