In a traditional raglan, you start with the neck size you want, increase the body and sleeves every second row or round until you get close to the body stitches you want. Whichever unit you use, be sure not to round. appropriate to the gauge you enter are needed. If you work your raglan straight down from the neck, you will have the front of the neck the same height as the back. Raglan shaping is usually worked from the top down and involves a long, slanted seam running from the neck to the underarm. For each raglan curve, reflect it in its 'base': copy the three points defining a raglan curve onto a spare piece of tissue paper, carefully labelling the neckline and the centre front points; turn it over, then align the neckline and centre front points up with the main sheet. Ive designed an awful lot of top-down raglan sweaters and cardigans. Lisas List: 10 Reasons Knitting Is Better Than Dating, Spurned Gifts: When Knit & Crochet Gifts Went Wrong. Swap a round crew for a v-neck by choosing a deeper neckline and binding off just 3 sts at the bottom. There's one special thing about raglan sweaters that I see overlooked in so many designs. the example covers shaping a sleeve, but the formula can be applied to any shaping you want. In August 2015 I released the book, Dovestone Hills, which coincided with the release of baa ram ewes Dovestone DK yarn. To allow for a better fitting neckline on crew neck raglan pullovers, designers will add short row shaping along the back of the neck to raise the back above the front . Isnt that cool? I know how much time and detail you have put into this and I sincerely appreciate it! If you make sure your neck increases are a few stitches in from the edge this will give you a clean line of stitches to pick up from. But you wouldn't solve this by working right back and forth across between the back raglans. Im planning a top down raglan that will be partly machine knit and partly hand knit (color work on body and sleeves just below division from yoke). Thank you so much if you can help! I have one question, is there any way to amend a lower armhole in a top-down ranglan sweater when you have finished the sweater? As Jennifer Wood explains in Refined Knits (and further explicated in a helpful emailthanks, Jennifer! The reason for this is so that the pattern can be continued down the body when you no longer need raglan increases. When I think about it I think Im just following and exaggerating the way the individual stitches lean so it wouldnt matter- when I get to the next sleeve I would do them in the same order. E.g. up from around the armhole. A child's proportions are different: Dear Knittingfool, be aware that this pattern is a percentage approximation. This is Linda, wearing Soft Structure, which has a shallow V-neck, and more increases in the front than the back - worked beneath the underarm. The top one is worked with short rows, the bottom is worked with bind-offs. Love the changes. Subtract starting front neck depth from desired front neck depth to get neck shaping depth. Im about to start knitting a top-down raglan sweater in the round with short rows in the back. Lisas designs from Knitting Plus are lovely. Every raglan seam should have the same 2 increases worked for each one as that way you are going to have the same seamline at each point. Yet not all crocheters and knitters embrace the raglan as we have done. If the front neckline is deep (like a scoop or v-neck), the whole sweater may slide down the back. The raglan line curves more at top than in the middle on this garment, shown most clearly when I laid an improvised straightedge next to the line. 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. sweater, but you need to know something about what you are doing. This will be the number of stitches in the last row before any decreases for ribbing. Posted on 30 Mar 10:25, The Rebirth KAL and Pullover Posted on 21 Mar 22:34, Top down and a little lacy Posted on 26 Feb 09:32, A staple pullover - colorblocked! For example, sleeve length can be easily extended or shortened simply by ceasing knitting at the desired point. These steps assume you create a crew neck a shallow, round neckline. Jean, I'm so happy to share what I know with others, and I'm glad you think this is useful! While it looks like Caelius uses yarnovers as the increases, its actually got a centred decrease with a yarnover, and then the increases are outside this. 2) Each human body follows some geometrical principles and ignores others. If you are knitting from the top down the raglan seams are all increases, but if you were knitting bottom-up, they would be decreases. You can use cm - it all works the same. 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! Knitting In the Round 3 Ways: DPNs, Two Circulars, or Magic Loop? Both sleeve cap and yoke are truncated triangles. When you knit a raglan the traditional top-down way ( as detailed in my tutorial ), what you're making for the yoke is a flat rectangle with a hole in the middle for your head and mitered corners, which are the raglan "seams.". Since I'm not acquainted with the formula you use yet, I'm not sure if the These little crochet hearts can be stuffed with the love-infused herbs recommended, or your favorite scented herbs, and a rose quartz stone or bead to amplify the sense of love radiating off of this precious gift. Hey, I just came across this while making a search on raglan. It seems very useful - can't hardly wait to "play" with it.Thanks for sharing!/Lisbethk, Dear Kristen,I have always loved working raglan sweaters from the neck down, but your instructions are so thorough and easy to follow. One in about a 3-4T and the second will be about a This seemed like a perfect opportunity to talk a bit about different types of seamless construction as there are 4 different seamless methods used in Dovestone Hills. Weve already covered many fitting tips and techniques in this series, and heres our final suggestion: compound raglan shaping can also refine fit. The shaping of the sleeve must match the front and back shaping so that all the pieces fit together properly. Please confirm you want to block this member. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network. 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. The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. Add a few rows to the yoke to make it deeper, or decrease fewer times in the sleeve to make the shoulders wider. Great job and thank you for sharing! We arent shaped like that! We use cookies to optimize our website and our service. If you're a designer and you're doing this and you want to help me understand what your goal was, please do write back!