Bust shaping is what I need. I’d love a bust shaping video from you and also how to do it with a patterned front. Love your videos and appreciate you sharing your passion, expertise and projects. ❤
This is super helpful. I just finished a pattern with short sleeves and I think next time I make it I want longer sleeves, and your instructions should help me to change to any length I want.
Thank you for this! It's so much math, but you taking it step by step is just what I needed! One of the things I have trouble with is arm circumference. I've got big upper arms. I've tried just adding on extra stitches under the arms, but that doesn't work for some reason.
I'm nearly always changing a pattern to suit and fit me. That's why knitting your own is a great skill to learn. I have more issues with the neck on patterns than I do with arms. There are so many patterns where the neck is too high in front for my comfort. I don't want to feel strangled. Definitely not a turtleneck wearer. If I want something around my neck I'll put something there (still never at the throat) and the space on a sweater needs to be there. As for arms I find them easy to adjust for length. Especially top down as I can often just knit to my personal arm length preferences. Cuff up might need a little tweaking depending on the increases to reach the required finished number of stitches for a sewn in sleeve. The sleeve width is where I have more issues as I often want to change the rate of increases/decreases not simply to get to the length I want but width as well without my arm ending up looking like a chicken leg. I generally wear a sweater over clothes with long sleeves and there are a lot of patterns where they seem to be designed to be worn snug over skin. Not for me. I want some room. But not baggy. I'll fiddle with the adjustments on just about every sleeve to give my sleeves more room and taper them to a cuff I like. Sometimes I think I should make men's patterns for myself lol. They always seem to have nicer fitting sleeves for me. Maybe I could make a mashup so I'm not doing a men's pattern and ending up adjusting the body lol.
Sleeves are always too short for me, bust and waist shaping, and sometimes the neck is designed to be actually on the neck which annoys me. After your class I am getting back to sweater knitting 🧡
Haven't knit a sweater yet.... but from sewing I know I need to add body length, increase hip width, and possibly add some bust shaping, and increase the bicep circumference. For sewing I usually need to decrease the length between the shoulder and bust
This series is wonderful! Thank you for putting this together. I am, apparently, your evil twin. 😈 I have long arms, narrow biceps, long torso, and little difference between waist and bust (the curse of women in my Dutch family). My biggest sweater challege is armhole depth/sleeve circumference. I have a smaller than average bicep and a longer than average arm length. So, when I choose a size for my bust (45), I always have to adjust the distribution of stitches for smaller sleeves. I can almost count on going down a size as I rarely get gauge. I am a loose knitter. I recently tossed my latest Raglan Sweater into the timeout pile. I started it when my husband was in the hospital and didn't do my math properly. I ended up with almost room enough for 2 arms in the sleeve at a whopping 22" (8.5" positive ease). Knitted top down... so... 😭😭 I wanted oversize, but it's ridiculous. So, I did what we all do... virtual toss of the knitting out the 2nd story window and cast on something new. 😮
