In this tutorial the teacher is peeking through....very well done. It adresses the problem of sleeve length beautifully. This has been the reason I avoided knitting bottom up in the past. With your method I will give it a try again. Thank you!!
Thank you, thank you thank you. I have watched several provisional cast on videos. Yours is the first one that showed how to use it. Others just show the cast on and removing the waste yarn, not how to work it in a garment.
Thank you! This technique solves one of my greatest problems. When I’ve attached the sleeves to the body of my bottom-up sweater, I find the stitches of the sleeves very tight and stretched at the point where they join to the body when on the needle, which is rigid and won’t flex with the stitches (as opposed to the flexible cord). As a result, I get several rounds of stretched stitches. This solves that issue! Yay!
This is great! Many thanks! And the timing is perfect as I’m knitting a bottom up sweater and not enjoying the idea of attaching sleeves after knitting them bottom up. I am watching for the 3rd time and feel brave enough to give it a go. Thanks again! 🙋🏽♀️💜🧶
This was great. I am working on my first bottom up sweater and caring for this approach. Seems to make it a lot harder to make sure the garment is going to fit. And doing the the sleeves bottom up to attach afer the fact - that's just crazy. So, I was very pleased to see this instructional and how very thorough it was. I've never done a provisional cast on before though I've seen a couple of tutorials on it. They just left me confused. But now I feel confident that I can do it. Thank you!
You are truly an amazing teacher! I have been trying to figure out on my own how to knit a sweater without a pattern bottom-up. Your video is so helpful! Thank you for this.
Just what I was looking for!! I usually knit bottom up sweaters with set in sleeves. I recently knitted a bottom up sweater, constructed as you showed, and was researching how to do provisional cast on to knit the sleeves top down. Your video is great to see how it's done! Since I didn't find much info elsewhere on this, I planned on just winging it! I hope lots of knitters watch this and attempt bottom up sweaters more often because they aren't as bad as people think!
Wonderful tutorial, I was always a bit intimidated by bottom up sweaters…. This is much more comfortable for me. Your instructions are clear and easy to follow. Love all your podcasts…. Thanks
Perfect timing for this. I'm knitting the Maja cardigan and did not want to knit the sleeves separately. Thanks so much for sharing this. ETA: I followed your instructions and it worked out beautifully. To others, be sure to not cast on tightly.
Thanks Melissa! I am saving this great tutorial so I can employ this technique on my next bottom up yoke sweater. It is clear and I appreciate your tempered pace so it is all the more understandable. Thank you!
My first sweater, finishing off a bottom up UFO I inherited and this seems like an easier way to make sleeves than what's in the pattern? Lets see. Thank you.
Brilliant! I tend to avoid bottom-up patterns primarily because I don't want to have to knit the sleeves separately then join. You've removed that obstacle--thank you! Also, I've never seen this form of provisional CO--does it work in any provisional setting, such as a neck CO for a top-down sweater, where collar is later worked from neck upwards? I'll have to try it.
Thank you, that was great. Very easy to follow❤ I was wondering can you use this technique for bottom up raglan sweater or does it only on yoke sweaters? Thanks again!
Love this. Your instructions are great! I was al set to try it on a current project but then I realized that as it is an all over colorwork pattern, the fact that the stitches will be upside down from the body will be noticeable. Oh well. Next time!
Thanks for the informative video but I would like to know if there is a definitive reason to use German twisted cast-on vs a different type such as the cable cast-on?
Hi Melissa how many stitches did you cast on for the body, what is the weight of yarn? Is this a med size sweater? I love your tutorial so clear and flexible. Thanks for sharing.
Question: I can't visualize it (late night watcher) but will the arm stitches point in the same direction as the body of the sweater using this technique, which BTW I think is ingenious. Love your tutorials. Always well thought out.
?Would it be just as easy to wait until you finish the top before picking up the provisional cast on and under arm stitches? Or do you think it's better to pick up sooner? Thanks thus is a great tutorial 😊 I'm at the point of the provisional cast on for my sleeves now so I'll be watching again 😊
Hi Teresa, Yes, just as easy to wait. I was just doing the armpits here so that you could see them in the space of a single video :) Good luck with your sweater project!
Hi Victoria, I'm not using a traditional German twisted cast on here (at least as I understand the technique). There are multiple ways to work a provisional cast on, though I have not personally seen one mixed with a cable cast on . . . I'd love to know! This is just my go-to provisional cast on for plain, stockinette sleeve stitches.
I like that method. The only thought I had was if there was color work on the sleeves. Wouldn't that change the v facing up or down on the the knit stitch.
Yes--Valerie--absolutely! If you're working in-pattern for the sleeves, then this method won't work very well or easily. But, I am now imaging alternate ways of dealing with that . . . hmmm, I wonder . . .
Great video, alas it came one day too late for me. I just attached sleeves the traditional way and once again got holes where they join. Does your method help eliminate these gaps? I will definitely try this nest time!
Ack! Just missed you! Next time around, then. And I should post a video of the underarm pick up . . . soon! As long as you grab a couple of extra stitches (at least one on each side of the potential "gap"), you should be OK
But why, why why? WHY would you want to knit sleeves onto a body if you didn't have to? I have just completed my first top-down jumper and I would rather stick needles in my eyes than ever do that again. Dragging a whole garment round and round and round while I knitted the sleeves was my idea of hell. I want my knitting to be as portable and UN-cumbersome as possible, so knitting a sleeve all by itself is exactly what I want to do. I would be so happy if you did a tutorial on how to knit a top-down pattern in a bottom-up way. I was very disappointed by your recent interview with Rachel Illsley when I went to her patterns and found that they are all top-down and therefore far too much of a pain for me to try. (Sorry, but I'm a recent arrival in the world of circular knitting and there are some days when I just want to go back to knitting on straight needles and sewing up the pieces. But the Lettlopi jumpers won't let me!!)
I wish I knew what you were talking about, maybe I'll understand if I listen long enough and then look up some words and then look up some instruction videos tutorials... I'm here to learn but I always did jump off the deep end with a sink-or-swim attitude.....
