Multi-Level Machine Knitting with Kate Jacobsen

Students taking this course gained a basic understanding of machine operation and a wide range of manipulations to make original cloth.

Kate Jacobsen has been machine knitting since 1986, and has made it a career since 1997. Jacobsen had a fashion design company from 1998 to 2010. She has taught machine knitting in the Fashion Department at the School for the Art Institute of Chicago for 6 years, including extra workshops for senior class. Other aspects of her career have included theater, circus and movie costuming, as well as acting onstage and film.