Origami jumper construction

Here are the photos of what I did with the two lengths of knit-weaving after they were completed.

I sewed part of them together and  marked where the neckline needed to go with a contrasting thread. Then took it into the Studio and did a zig-zag stitch just outside of the contrasting thread. That was repeated so as to make sure that when the inside area was cut away the knitting would not unravel. this was done yesterday.

This morning I hung the knitted strips onto the needles of the machine, the wrong side facing out. Then carefully pushed each needle through the cloth ( 144 needles in all). Carefully knitted each needle back so as to have the loops on the needles and the garment hanging down. Knitted 12 rows on Tension dial 7 then did one row on Tension dial 10 and another 12 rows on TD 7. Carefully picked up all the loops which were created when I first hung the garment and hand knitted those back one by one. Did one row with the carriage and cast off around the pegs.

 You can see by the above photo that it makes a neat neckline hiding all the cut bits of thread when the circle was cut out. 

On the left is the Origami folded garment which now needs to be hand stitched together.

I have spent about 20 hours , designing, swatching, knit-weaving,doing the neckline and hand sewing.....so at $30/hour that would come to $600 plus the handspun Merino/silk yarn and other yarns...

The garment is for sale at $700.00 and please don't rush me....Hahahahahaha