by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 14, 2025 | batwing, process, sweater design
Batwing! Batwing 101 My lovely friend Marian visited us recently for moral support. She was having a hard time, so I offered to make her a sweater. “You don’t have to make me a pity sweater,” she told me, but once we got talking about what kinds of...
by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 17, 2020 | raglan, sweater design, top-down, tutorial
Raglan 101 Some Thoughts on Top-Down Raglan Construction What Even Is a Raglan Sweater? 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...
by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 10, 2020 | art, gauge, process, raglan, sweater design, top-down
On Gauge and the Mirage of Perfection 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...
by sweaterequity@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2020 | set-in sleeve, short rows, sleeves, sweater design, top-down, tutorial
Set-In Sleeves from the Top Down A 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...
