Knitwear and Sweaters: the Garment That Is Not Cut
You follow one order for 18,000 lambswool sweaters through every rule that cut-and-sew teaches wrongly. A gauge is a fleet, not a setting. A cost sheet is built from yarn weight, not from fabric consumption. Linking is counted in loops. And a blocking board can hide a knitting error until the customer's first wash.
Published by Merchandising Academy · First lesson free to read
Course value
What will you be able to do?
Work outcome
You can cost, plan, and inspect a garment by the rules of its own category, and recognise when a technique you learned on one product will quietly fail on another.
Who it is for
Factory, supplier, brand and buying-office teams.
What you will produce
You build a knitwear file for one order. You cost the same sweater at two gauges, with the machine-days each one takes. You rebuild a cost sheet from a weighed size range and a dyed-yarn waste build. You price three construction routes to the yarn price at which they cross. You calculate capacity for two floors. And you set the loop-length control that catches a drifting machine.
Learning format
6 lessons · 0 templates · workplace calculations and decisions.
Lessons
- 01Gauge is the decision, and it prices the sweater and books the factory at the same time🔒24 min
- 02You are not buying fabric, you are buying yarn by the kilogram🔒22 min
- 03Fully fashioned, cut and sew, whole garment: three routes and the price that decides between them🔒22 min
- 04Linking is counted in loops, and it is where the bottleneck goes to hide🔒21 min
- 05Blocking sets the measurement, and the first wash takes it back🔒21 min
- 06A sample that fits is not proof: gauge drift, and two complaints with one cause🔒20 min