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Fashion design student
knits her way to success
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FEDERALL Y INSPECTED
By JOAN KORINEK
Margaret Warner's wardwrobe con
sists of only two store-bought sweat
ers. That's because the rest of her sweat
ers she has designed, knitted and creat
ed herself.
The 33-year-old graduate student in
fashion design at UNL takes out her
knitting needles and yarn and begins
to knit as we talk. Because, she said, it
keeps her hands busy. Although she
has a knitting machine, Warner said,
she prefers the needles because she
can knit anytime she has five or 10
minutes of spare time.
Warner said her interest in fashion
design stems from her childhood.
"Barbie never really had enough
clothes," she said, laughing, "so I start
ed sewing."
Later when she was in high school,
Warner's aunt taught her how to knit.
Little did she know that someday it
would be her area of study.
Warner's knitting and designing tal
ents have not gone unrecognized. This
year, she won best of show at the
Fashion Group of Kansas City's annual
fashion show and last year she placed
second. In addition, she was the only
student winner in the Association of
College Professors of Textiles and Clo
thing show in 1982.
This year's winner a long, white
sweater with pastel colors and shells
on it originally was made for some
one else. But the person was not happy
with it so Warner got it back, she
said. She got the sweater back one
week before the show and reworked it,
putting the final touches on it 10 min
utes before it was sent off to Kansas
City, she said.
Warner said winning these awards
has given her encouragement to pur
sue her interests. In addition, her fam
ily and Robert Hillestad, UNL profes
sor of clothing, textiles and design,
have been supportive, she said.
Because sweaters are not sized, they
fit a wide range of bodies, she said,
smiling.
The less constructed a garment is,
the better, and the least constructed
thing is a cocoon, she said. Thus, the
"cocoon" idea was born. Both this year's
and last year's prize winners are based
on the "cocoon" concept, she said.
But just where does she get ideas for
all these sweaters?
"I get some of my inspirations from
furs," she said.
While some ideas come like flashes,
others float around in her head for a
long time, she said. For example, one
idea has been floating aroung for about
a year and has yet to surface. Her
"cocoon" idea came to her in about
three weeks which Warner said is
fast for an idea.
On vacation one year, Warner said,
she began looking at trees with moss
on them, a basic observance which
turned into the basis for a sweater
idea.
Once she gets an idea, it goes straight
from her head to the knitting needles,
she said. There are no intermediate
steps. The sweaters kind of shape them
selves. Material is an important element of
each garment. Warner said she likes to
use natural fibers and bright colors,
especially purple.
But, she likes to try knitting with
different things. In addition to yarn,
she has used jewelry, lace, beads and
shells in some sweaters. Last summer,
she dyed a T-shirt,cut it up and then
knitted it.
Warner said because she finds very
few yarns in Lincoln, she looks in
Omaha or orders yarn from a yarn
company.
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