Making your hand-knitted sweater fit right involves many factors. Your gauge, what size, how long, how wide, your special fitting challenges and what style works best for your body shape are all very important. As a professional tailor, I can tell you one top tip for sweater fitting that ensures failure if you mess it up. [...]
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Do you get nervous when faced with 300 cast on stitches? How many times do you count them? A massive first row or round of pattern stitches can be daunting. What if you run out of stitches or have leftovers at the end of the round? Where on earth in those 300 stitches did you make a knitting mistake? Let’s whittle that monster round down to size. [...] Negative ease in knitting means no wiggle room or worse. If a blonde bombshell in a tight sweater springs to mind, you may think you don’t want your knitting like that. Unless you’ve got the bod and want to flaunt it. But even if you don’t want negative ease in a sweater for fear it shows how many doughnuts you’ve eaten lately, there is one garment that always needs it. [...] 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. [...] Body flaws? You can't possibly mean us! Photo courtesy of seeinside Even if you’re an identical twin, you are one of a kind. Your unique body is beautiful, even though you yourself may regard some part as a body flaw. Do you have a special fitting challenge that makes all your hand-knitted sweaters fit not quite right? [...] Have you found a pattern you like and delicious yarn for it, but dread knitting yet another sweater that fits somebody else better than it fits you? End that pain. Here’s how. [...] |
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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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