Crafty Threads 'n' Yarns

murdo · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject:

I'm in...doing a topdown sweater for me in Drops alpaca and a topdown baby cardy

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pictish · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2009 8:35 pm Post subject:

Great murdo!!! Razz

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franney · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:10 am Post subject:

pictish · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:47 am Post subject:

Well I have a bit of a conundrum Confused

I have to knit until the raglans are 11" or 23 increases - now my row guage is different to the recommended yarn so if I do 23 increases it will probs only be 9" and if I do 11" it will come out too wide cos it will be about 26 increases Confused

So am going to go for 23 increases and hope that gives me a big enough armhole. I hope that's the right thing to do Wink

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melody yarns · Site Admin Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 8688 Location: UK

After knitting the FLS, as long as you get all your increases in (23 I think you said?) then you can knit your raglans whatever length you need or require. So you could complete your raglan increases and then knit 'straight' rows without shaping to complete your armhole depth.

I'm sure someone else would confirm if this is right or wrong as it's just the way I'm thinking of it!
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pictish · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:17 am Post subject:

You see in 'normal' knitting I KNOW what to do but don't yet with this sort of pattern Laughing

But I expect you soon get the hang of it.

Thanks Debs - I'll see what it looks like after 23 increases Cool

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melody yarns · Site Admin Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 8688 Location: UK

Neither do I really Ali Confused

it's a bit of a guess, so someone more knowledgeable might throw some expert light onto it!

What about asking on Rav? Is there a top-down group on there?
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melody yarns · Site Admin Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 8688 Location: UK

Here you go:

http://www.ravelry.com/groups/top-down-sweaters#

I just joined! Very Happy

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pictish · Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 9:53 am Post subject:

Thanks!! There's a Knit & Tonic group as well (Wendy Bernard) which I joined - I might ask there Cool

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melody yarns · Site Admin Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 8688 Location: UK

I think I've just found the perfect top down summer cardigan here

It looks non-so-good on the pattern itself but there are some fab examples on the Ravelry pages! I've just had a flash of inspiration to use up some S-T-A-S-H.... Shocked

Rav pages are here:http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/cropped-raglan-sweater/people

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