Notes from Dr. Borkosky

Let’s dive in and check out why you might want to try knitting a circular yoke sweater! Lay the FAV sweater flat and measure: 1. I want to work it in the round and would want a final stitch count of 38 sts (for the body of the sweater). I refrained from offering my “gateway drug” sermon, but maybe I can debate it with him over a beer someday.) At the base of the armhole, the stitches are joined and worked in the round to the cuffs. So , my question is how would you calculate the number of stitches to CO and how much would be put aside for the ” seam”. Hi Patricia – if you are knitting for kids I would just go up a size or 2. You might think about making a link to the Incredible Custom Fit Raglan sweater pattern/recipe since this tutorial seems to have come from it. You can always return it if you don’t use it (and don’t wind it or remove the ball band or whatever). Glad this could help a little bit!

For more on that, see: How and why to seam a seamless sweater.

I haven’t read the article you’re referring to but, at a glance, appreciate your pointing it out. ;-D. I am so excited by this post! Oh goodness thank you so much! But my favorite basic raglan is 2 stitches in the seam and a kfb on either side of them, so that’s what I’m doing here. With certain yarns, the sweater may twist on you over time, having been knitted in a spiral, which is what “in the round” technically ends up being. Ahh, finally someone smart enough to figure out how to make a baby size pattern into an adult size. I love your patterns, and recently knit Gramps as a baby gift. Of course, in top-down knitting they aren’t actually seams — they’re just the four places in the yoke where the shaping (the orderly repetition of increases) happens to create a design element. WHY FRONT(S)? However the style spread and became very popular in the Shetland island region and Iceland. I was in a great, fun “pro tips” class with Josh Bennett last night. I finished this last year- thanks for your help! And how do you know? You could simply place 1 marker at each of the 4 raglans and increase on either side (any increase stitch you like). BEGIN AT THE BEGINNING ::: at the beginning there was a gauge swatch! Stitches are cast on for the neck circumference, then increased evenly spaced in four intervals to the widest circumference at the armhole depth. Hi Nita – it would depend on the pattern.

I’ve been trying and frogging and biting my nails. The Icelandic name for the circular yoke sweater is “lopapeysa” and is typically knit in the very warm “Lopi” wool. . I just found your site. I’d appreciate any help! Top ~down.Thank you, Pingback: Painted Roses Blanket and a knitting gauge swatch! But if you were working with 50 sts, as in my example, there aren’t 25 front and back stitches, because some of them need to be sleeve stitches. + Stadium Mitts. Hi Emily,mImam aboutmtomknit a size 2 dog star, can you pleasel tell me what size needles I need for thesleeves as well as the body, I see I need 4mm but was wondering what the other sizes are.

It doesn’t even have to have raglan sleeves — see, for instance, the contiguous sleeve method. So glad you found it helpful, Suzi — yay! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. I must have looked, I don’t know how many ways that I could think of. An ill-fitting sweater is probably not cause for a dumping… but lets not take the chance! Simple knit-purl stitch patterns can fill the wide expanse of the drop-shoulder silhouette. So, if you want a more fitted sweater, go with an inch or so of negative ease for Antler. And perhaps most importantly, you can use any yarn and needles that produce a fabric you love and want to make a whole sweater out of. :). I’m struggling with my first cardigan which is made from top-down and your blogposts are so helpfull, it is putting things in perspective, thank you! Thanks for the tute on that. How does one do this? I like to figure out my own patterns and have been looking for something to help me understand the components I have to work with when designing a sweater. All Rights Reserved. I want to knit the 0-6 mo size and 6-12mo size. Welcome back to the Sweater Construction series! The Antler Sweater is knit from the bottom up. Your guidelines, while making me have to do some thinking I was hoping to avoid by following a pattern, are very helpful. Thanks for the great tutorial! Because the shoulders and armholes are not well defined on a circular yoke sweater, the yokes will have a less tailored fit than raglan or set-in sleeve silhouettes. And for that you need to have the original yarn. The provisional cast-on is a great way to add stitches that you'll want to knit from again. . + Laurus Hat

So I especially recommend this approach if you’re making an even moderately heavy sweater. | Fringe Association, The accidental V-neck | Fringe Association, In defense of top-down sweaters | Fringe Association, Top-Down Raglan vs. Top-Down Set-in-Sleeve | northwardknits, KTFO-2016.2 : Bob’s rollneck sweater | Fringe Association, KTFO-2016.3 : Quick black raglan pullover | Fringe Association, How (and why) to knit top-down sleeves flat | Fringe Association, Hurray! I have a question: you said the the sleeve has to be about 30% of the number of stitches for the back. Keep reading! Gnarled Oak Cardigan by Alana Dakos I’m terrible with gauge swatches and I don’t know how to do one with ribbed knitting. So those are the first two things to think about: What type of neckline do you want? I love your measurement chart…I’m Crocheting a girls size 7 to 7 and half hooded sweater..will these measurement be the same if I’m not knitting but crocheting instead?? uh-oh… should I crack out that cream colored cotton? IMHO, the best way would be to provisionally cast-on the long edge, using COWYAK or the crochet method. Dividing in half, like you did (25) is helpful, because then you can split that into front+sleeve or back+sleeve. But how can I estimate if I have enough yarn in one stashlette to make ot through? What style of sweater is currently on your needles? – Sommerlig Lace til DIN kropp - ALLE størrelser, Strange Brew : a recipe for a sweet custom sweater! Cookie Statement Terms & Conditions. Go you! I’m going to refer to this henceforth as the Reversible method. Thank you so much for this information. Any advice? So much simpler than I thought – one last question though – does this mean square necklines can’t be done in that dropped neckline style? | Loop and bar. But many sweater patterns, especially bottom-up sweater knitting patterns, such as Jhumpa (shown above), require you to cast on a good deal of stitches at the get-go.

If you’ve decided to cast on, join immediately, and start knitting (again, resulting in a reversible garment — no difference between front and back), all you need to know is how many stitches.

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