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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How can good knitting go bad despite every stitch being perfect? Even if you’re a master knitter who can turn yarn into any size, shape, or style of garment you please, how come you can’t wear those luscious things coming off your needles? It’s nothing wrong with the knitting. This knitting mistake is not knowing which styles enhance what’s best about your unique body shape. Do yours enhance what’s worst? Ouch! [...] 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? [...] Can’t get gauge? If your gauge swatch gives you a pleasing fabric that will suit your pattern, you must adjust your pattern to a different knitting gauge. How do you figure out how many stitches you need? Whichever way feels most comfortable for you. Say what? [...] Cables can be such fun–until you make a knitting mistake. Maybe you crossed one the wrong way and didn’t notice until you knitted rounds and rounds on top of the mistake. Maybe you forget to cross one at all. Do you rip out all your work? Ignore the mistake and hope no one notices? Here’s a better way you might try, complete with a video. [...] 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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