I am also happy to see Dusty Road, which I managed to miss last summer-gorgeous both in color and construction. I think many simple designs can be explained as formulasthough it's not the norm, so people don't tend to do it very often. The short rows may be worked all around the neckline, or just back and forth so that stitches are unworked in the front neck only. Yours is a major contribution and I would like to applaud you. Add neck shaping to your raglan with short rows - JP Knits Things It is not a sophisticated method. I was just wondering if you have any thoughts on this matter. Thanks for the tutorial. sweater, but you need to know something about what you are doing. Thanks for your advice CarolI will experiment a little with spacing out my raglan increases. The Audubon Shrug by Lisa Shroyer, from her book, Knitting Plus.Raglan sweaters can be attractive on plus-size women, but its an issue of individual shape. Great for those new to crochet! Raglan shaping is usually worked from the top-down and involves a long, slanted (or sometimes curved) seam running from the neck to the underarm. of that measurement. The relatively smooth raglan lines on a sweater have to hang over these spots where curves get steeper and shallower. Want to go deeper on front neck shaping? How do I know where to put them, so that it will fit on me? Ive designed an awful lot of top-down raglan sweaters and cardigans. The pattern you will get from this process will be a guideline to making a
The shaping is all absolutely identical, and you can see that this would have zero effect on the back neck. This might be a good time to talk about the goal of short rows. In August 2015 I released the book, Dovestone Hills, which coincided with the release of baa ram ewes Dovestone DK yarn. Personally Ive never seen a sweater design that suits everybody and that every crocheter or knitter adores wholeheartedly, without reservations. Posted on 28 Jan 15:32, The Ripening of the Raspberry Cheesecake Capelet Posted on 27 Oct 18:04, New & Improved - Stormy Top Posted on 13 Oct 23:59, It's time for Autumn Field Socks! If the front neckline is shallow (like a crew neck), it may be pulled up into your neck. maybe using some of the increments from the other sweater calculator that goes in sizes
Heres the thing - if youre used to working the same shaping all the way from the neck to the underarm, you may have noticed that creates a very straight line, and fundamentally is making a rectangular pyramid. May I ask, when knitting a raglan top down and adding short rows to raise the back neck, do you do these once you are already knitting in the round, or do you do a few back and forth rows? A child's proportions
If you do a few calculations, you can adjust for yourself, in the same way, to fit a pattern exactly to your body shape. So when I pop in the measurements there is NO WAY that thing fits
Add or subtract armhole depth, and those diagonal lines between body and sleeves (the raglan lines) change their slope. Is it possible to cut the armhole and add a rhombus or some similar piece? 7 sizes; XS-3XL Part One: Getting Started . I wouldnt increase all the way to the underarm as that will make your sleeve and body too large. What I frequently do instead is space the increases out so increase rows are every other row instead which correct both issues I find. These tutorials and the mention of your Craftsy course have given me more tools and confidence that I may actually make a decent go at making one of these designs! The Slopes Pullover and Azure Lake Sweater feature circular-yoke shaping, decorated with seamless patterning. Sometimes, then, well see necklines that work well in the middle and larger sizes, but because the shoulder gets more narrow as sizes get smaller, the smallest sizes dont have adequate depth. Now compare the raglan sweaters geometry to the bodys geometry. The chest measurement is treated as the 100%; all other measurements are some portion
Knitting is an art, but the engineering-part of my brain is constantly questioning why so many designs can't just be explained as formulas. So watch out for all the patterns, there will be a new one added every couple of days! This method of FBA can look kind of odd off a body because of how it changes the appearance of the raglan, but it looks just fine on. Sign up here! I debated changing the Raglan increases because I generally prefer to have the increase line extend all the way down below the armpit. The shaping of the sleeve must match the front and back shaping so that all the pieces fit together properly. Hello, thanks for your interesting explanation. The shoulder width is less important as there is no set shoulder width. If youd like to see this in action, check out Soft Structure. Its very rare that a raglan wont need front neck shaping - the shoulder width needs to be about six inches wide for that to work. and markers. It is acceptable to work a few extra rows into the
This blog post from Amy Herzog is a fantastic resource for different neckline shapes and the shaping rates that create them. Typically patterns suggest a Backwards Loop Cast-On. The reason for this is so that the pattern can be continued down the body when you no longer need raglan increases. LCx3 - work 6 stitches in a left leaning cable (3 stitches over 3 stitches) LCx2 - work 4 stitches in a left leaning cable (2 stitches over 2 stitches) ssk - slip as if to knit, slip as if to purl, knit the 2 slipped sts together. square should be 5 x 5 inches. Lisa's List: 6 Armholes and How to Make them Work for Your Body E.g. A Full Bust Adjustment for Knit Raglan Tops (Option 1) This is a useful construction that allows you to try on the sweater as you go. This is a useful construction that allows you to try on the sweater as you go. Caelius is the sweater in Dovestone Hills that uses this shoulder construction method. I am so tired of looking for a pattern that I have in my head with yarn that doesnt seem to match any of their gauges! critical to the proper fit of any sweater pattern. It's an artifact of the swatch. Im about to start knitting a top-down raglan sweater in the round with short rows in the back. having a pattern that spells everything out to the letter
Knit Design TipsHow I design a top-down raglan pullover Knitters in larger sizes will often need to increase every row, and will need to add more body stitches than sleeve stitches. Right after the bust, we decrease dramatically in circumference, then we dont change very much in the mid chest, and then our circumference narrows rapidly from the shoulder to the chest. Measure from the point where your neck meets the shoulder (right at the top where a shoulder seam would be), straight down to a point level with where you want the bottom of the neckline to be. The first that I want to talk about is top-down seamless raglan. My goal is to give you some room to breathe! I was trying to figure out how to start and how to measure for different sizes because I am newbie in knitting. If you havent already, take a minute to check out the other posts in this series. To this measurement, add your trim depth. *Membership cannot be purchased with Gift Cards. I love hearing what you have to say! Double-point needles or circular needles in the sizes
The most basic would be a kfb (knit into the front and back of the stitch). Start by eliminating two stitches per turn (if working German Short rows, this means youll work until there is 1 stitch before the double stitch, then turn your work) until half your stitches to shape out are eliminated. Without this shaping, the collar will be pulled to the back. 6-7 - somewhere in that range. Tell us, in the comments! Ysolda Teague explains how she calculated her compound raglan yoke for Stripy, a multi-part tutorial on fit. Wauw - I'm really impressed and glad to find another excel-fan. Remember - what we're doing with short rows is leaving some stitches in the front unworked. Please confirm you want to block this member. For a crew neck, youll want to use two shaping rates to eliminate stitches, so that youre getting rid of stitches faster at the bottom of the neckline. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. In the picture to the left, the top swatch is worked with short rows and the bottom is worked with bind-offs, but the shaping is the exact same. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The style of these "lines" can be different depending on the design, but here are some examples of what it looks like this: Arlo & Alice baby/child cardigan In the fashion illustration below, the side view reveals a curve just below the neck (between shoulder and high bust), then another curve where high bust becomes full bust. Also the all sizes _inc formula messes up all of my numbers. If you turned your work at the same stitch over and over, youd create a vertical line, but you couldnt work the next row. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Both sleeve cap and yoke are truncated triangles. I'm going to be extremely direct here, and if you think I'm wrong - write back and tell me. I hope that these examples get you started thinking about how much control you have over your raglan knitting projects :), 4607 Library Road Ste 220-206 If youve been reading this series, all of this information should sound familiar. up from around the armhole. Copy the reflected apex to the main sheet and join the dots. Short Row Shaping at the Back Neck. IMO. Either print and draw right on, or highlight cells to illustrate your dream shaping. Raglan. Thanks again and do keep designing and sharing. So what can you do with all this info? That's why top down raglan are the least customizable of all sweaters. Up until now, these patterns have only been available as part of the book, but over the coming weeks, Ill be releasing the individual patterns one at a time! Now we see why the sweater might poof out just above the breasts or right at the armpit. A child's proportions are different: Dear Knittingfool, In raglans worked from the bottom up, the raglan shaping is achieved with decreases. Do not round this number. The sleeve cap has to stretch over the outer joint of the shoulder and across the top of the shoulder to the neckline, requiring a flat plane of fabric to curve over an angled area. How would I increase these areas to get about a 2inch increase? When the raglan increases end early and there are many rows of straight knitting before getting to the point where the stitches are added for the underarm join, I have found that the finished sweater doesnt always lay flat just in the upper chest and back. Short rows keep us from knitting stitches. Thank you soon much for the tutorial. This week we're going to talk about adding length to your sweater and adding optional waist-shaping. It is really helpful!