by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
What Even Is It? Sweaters designed with a raglan sleeve can be identified by the uninterrupted diagonal “seam” — which is often not a real seam but rather a line of increases or decreases that creates the appearance of a seam — stretching from the underarm to the...
by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 10, 2020 | art, gauge, process, raglan, sweater design, top-down
In knitting, as in life, perfection is an illusion.It’s funny, really. We are awkwardly configured blobs of limb-studded flesh wrapped around articulated skeletons with hundreds of individual bones. Our bodies are shaped by our genetics, our choices, and our...
by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2020 | set-in sleeve, short rows, sleeves, sweater design, top-down, tutorial
I love a sleeve with a smooth, fitted cap. There is something about that clean vertical line at the shoulder, the rounded top of the cap, the tiny inset lines of increase or decreases — it all works for me. I can appreciate sleeves of many types, but the set-in sleeve...
