Tag: 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 3: The Yoke

  

  With the body and sleeves completed, we now put all the pieces together. Reserving Stitches for the Armhole Once the sleeves and body are done the next component is the yoke.  Prior to completing that however we need to address the stitches that will become the underarm. The underarm area should be roomy enough for…

• 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…

• The Story Behind Wool and Knitting

  

  This is my short story about how the Wool and Knitting blog posts came about. I don’t think I was much older than 6 years of age when I asked my mom to show me how to knit.  It was a struggle for both of us, but I soon got the hang of it and…