If you want to knit a top down sweater, where do you start? Have you ever tried a percentage sweater with top down knitting? You can create your own top down sweater patterns if you know three things: your knitting gauge, what size you want your finished sweater to be and your neck measurement. Can it be that easy? [...]
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If you want to make a sweater without a pattern, we can thank Elizabeth Zimmermann for figuring out our proportions. Elizabeth’s Percentage System lays out a formula that compares how many stitches you need for body, sleeves, neck width and so on. Here’s how you do percent patterns in five steps. [...] Did you ever design a sweater using Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Percentage System? Her knitting system combines your yarn, your favorite sweater’s measurements and your gauge into a sweater that will fit you just right. Before knitting your sweater, you knit a swatch hat as proof your sweater will work as designed. Want to see my swatch hat results? Warning: I chose the most complicated pattern on the planet. [...] It’s all Elizabeth Zimmermann’s fault. There you are, champing at the bit to knit your sweater you designed for yourself or a loved one. What on earth are you doing knitting a hat instead? [...] Did you ever design a knitting pattern using Elizabeth Zimmermann’s Percentage System? Her method helps you create a sweater from scratch, one that fits you just right. If you never tried designing before, there’s no better time than now. Why? Because August 9, 2010 is 100 years since her birth. I’m designing an Aran sweater in celebration of this master knitter’s birthday. Warning: designing is a messy process. [...] Sweater fitting for boob fairy blessings. Photo courtesy of Terwilliger911 How many of your hand-knitted sweaters have been ruined or stressed out because you’ve been double blessed by the boob fairy? Which sweater fitting mistake keeps tripping you up? Do you make a tent that hides your waist so you have no shape at all? Do you [...] How many times have your knitting math mistakes ruined a sweater that you otherwise knit very well? Have you EVER gotten a sweater to fit the way you dreamed while you cast on, knit each stitch, bound off, blocked, and seamed? Couldn’t you just scream? Do you need a brain transplant to make knit fit every time? [...] If you’re a knitter who’s math phobic, you have the ruined sweaters to prove it. One was the wrong size, another was the wrong fit, yet another ran out of yarn before completion. Sound familiar? What you need is a math monkey who’ll help you do the math. Or a way to make knitting math simple. [...] |
Helpful Links
Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Cast On Video Tutorial Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind Off Photo Tutorial TECHknitting Sweater Knitting Pattern Generator Meg Swansen explains Elizabeth's Percentage System on Math4Knitters podcast Knitmore Girls podcast on ratios #78 Knitmore Girls podcast on sizing, fit and ease Brass Needles podcast Episode 48 with Gail Carriger's segment on sweater sleeves (about 7 minutes in) Brass Needles podcast Episode 49 with Gail Carriger's segment on sweater necklines (almost 9 minutes in) Fabulous Crochet Designer Vashti Braha Start Knitting Socks for Soldiers  
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