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Storybook
Collection of Knit Designs for Children's Outerwear
This collection was inspired by the original Winnie the Pooh and Beatrix Potter illustrations.
These are the main colors of the collection. The colors of this collection were picked from the inspiration illustrations from Winnie the Pooh and Beatrix Potter. The range of colors were chosen to keep the color palette gender neutral for this children's collection.
This collection was created with a company in mind for these products called Rylee & Cru. This presentation is about the research on this brand as well as other market research.
Pattern Collection
Picnic Flowers
Woodland Plaid
Robin Nest
These are the three designs of the collection which include two links links knits and a jacquard knits created in the Shima Seiki knitting software and knit on a 14 gauge machine.
End Uses
These are illustrations of the knit designs showcasing their intended use.
The reference images for the illustrations were found on Google.
Alternate Colorways
These are the same collection of designs in other colors in the collection's color palette.
Process
The designs in is collection were created in the Shima Seiki software. I started by creating the two links links designs in the structure design tab. I created most of the design by hand going pixel by pixel. I also used the design library for some parts of the designs and incorporated and blended those elements into the rest of my design such as the boarder flowers on the Picnic Flowers design and the main vertical cables in the Robin Nest design. For the jacquard design, I first created the design in Adobe Photoshop and then brought it into the Shima Seiki software where I had to clean up all of the lines of the design to keep them in the grid structures.
These are the final designs of the three patterns in the Shima Seiki software. These images show what type of stitches are being used in the links links designs.
After I completed the designs of the knits, I was able to go to the colors page where I was able to assign colors to different parts of the knits which can be seen in the left photograph. After the colors were assigned, I had to assign the carriers of the knitting machine to the different colors in the knit. This was very important when it came to the jacquard design to make sure the colors I wanted were going to be knit in the correct places.
After the colors and carriers were assigned correctly, I was able to take the designs and simulate them so that I could make sure that there were no errors in the design such as areas that are not knittable. Now that I know there are no errors in the design I was able to fully simulate it so that I could test out different colors and make sure that I was happy with both the design and the color choices of the design before I sent it to get knitted.
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