lindsay alicia...and ashley!

It's always great to see what fellow F.I.T. alumni are up to these days! Lindsay's designs are amazing to me because they are so intricate and fit the body so well. I love that my friend Ashley is her current model because we went to F.I.T. together for our BFA in textile design. One of the classes we had to take was knit design and we hated it! We loved weaving and painting and just about everything else (maybe not that lace design class), but knit design was our most evil class! It took lots of frustration, sometimes tears (I started smoking cigarettes again about midway through that class!) just to get one small plain knit sample made, forget about designs, jacquards or anything fancy! Imagine 20-25 people crammed in a basement room with no windows, subway rumbling by, harsh fluorescent lights, lots of swearing, the constant irritating zig zagging back and forth of the knitting machines. We were so crammed in this sweatshop like setting that if you accidentally backed your chair up you would hit the persons machine behind you  knocking their sample off and they would have to start from scratch! If your machine broke, which they often did, an old cranky man would come in and yell at you in broken English while he fixed it for you, while you're staring at the clock watching the minutes go by, knowing you need to get your final sample in before the end of class or you would have to come back for a knitting lab or something. Ahhhhh!! The pressure! I wish I had a photo of that room, hopefully they have improved it since we graduated!
Anyway- this makes Linday's creations even more amazing and gorgeous to me! She creates them all in her apartment with a knitting machine! True talent and passion for her practice!

  

 

Links and credits

Photography: Chris Johnson

Model: Ashley

 Linday's blog and website