Read all posts in the Stripy series. Ahem, sorry for the silly title. Anyway here’s what I would do if I woke up one morning, found I had my breasts had grown a lot overnight, and decided to knit a well fitted stripy. Admittedly there might be some freaking out first because that would be [...]
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Stripy features a compound raglan adapted from the directions in Maggie Righetti’s Sweater Design In Plain English. The simple method of working a raglan – where you increase every second round until you have enough stitches to fit around the chest – can give a good fit, but in most cases does not result in [...]
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Apologies for the delay in continuing the stripy series, I’ve had a horrible cold and time seems to have been moving very quickly. I really, really recommend that you get someone else to measure you. Make sure that your tape measure isn’t all stretched out and old too. We’re going for accuracy here. You can [...]
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Almost all of Stripy is going to be knit in the round. I’ve decided to do a false button placket at the neck because there is no need for it to function and the original one pops open occasionally, presumably because of the various button sizes, which is annoying. Of course, if you really want [...]
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Remember Stripy? Well every so often someone asks about the pattern, but it’s always been my intention to do a tutorial on making this in your yarn to fit your measurements. Finally I’ve got the time to do this, so over the next few weeks I’ll be doing a series of posts on making this. [...]
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