Tag: lace sweater

• Raglan Lace Sweater Lesson 4: Completing the Sweater.

  

  To keep the sweater cohesive and to eliminate any heavy bulky areas the sweater will be completed with an I-cord cast off. Begin by picking up stitches along the right front of the sweater and knitting them. Pick up 2 stitches for every 3 along the front edge. Knit 3 stitches into the corner stitch…

• Raglan Lace Sweater Lesson 2: The Sleeves

  

  Once the body is complete it is time to move onto designing and knitting the sleeves.  For the most part this is almost the same as how we calculated the body. Measuring for the SleevesThe first calculation you will need to do is to determine the number of stitches to begin with.  This will be…

• Raglan Lace Alpaca Sweater Lesson 1 The Body

  

  If you are like me, you process your own fibre and spin your own yarn. At a fibre fair I ran across a wonderful bag of alpaca fibre. It was teddy bear soft and I wanted a sweater. While doing research I read you must add wool to the alpaca by at least 30% or…