yet another top down raglan
Since I clearly do not have enough projects on the go, I started this yesterday. A simple top down raglan, with buttons down the left raglan line. It will probably be striped below the yoke, simply because that’s the only way I’m likely to have enough yarn. I need to find something that will go for the stripes though, probably in some kind of teal colour. The colour of this yarn is tricky to photograph, and is nicer than in these pics, clearer and greener. This is perfect reading knitting, and that’s the main reason I started it. There’s also something about August that years of school have ingrained into me, the feeling that it’s time for new clothes, clothes that are both suitable for school and that will suddenly make you cool this year. (Although given some of the things I wore to school, the idea of suitable may be taken loosely - some of them would have been barely decent in the setting of a nightclub).
I also learnt a new way of doing a tubular cast on. It’s so much more elegant than either of the other ways I knew (the provisional cast on, st st for 4 rows, pick up and purl alternate sts from the beginning way; and the one that involves yarn overs). This method I learnt from Montse Stanley, and it’s basically a variation on a long tail cast on. It’s faster than the other methods and gives a softer edge.
Posted: August 7th, 2006 under Uncategorized.
Comments: 6
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Comment from Pigwotknits
Time: August 7, 2006, 5:46 pm
Oh, do tell. Or tell us where to find it. I like the tubular cast on, but it does take a long time to do.
Comment from Lesa
Time: August 7, 2006, 5:59 pm
I actually like the color as it is shown. I normally don’t like green either.
Your dad is a wonderful photographer.
Comment from Illanna
Time: August 7, 2006, 7:01 pm
I am a green freak, and I love that sweater! It’s going to come out really beautiful. I think I did that kind of tubular cast on for some cuff down socks. The pattern was the embossed leaves socks from interweave knits. I thought it was such a weird way to cast on, but I really liked it in the end. Happy knitting!
Comment from alice
Time: August 9, 2006, 12:11 am
everyone loves a top-down raglan
i was looking at the purl long tail cast on stuff on pieknits’s blog and thinking about its uses just this morning
Comment from emily
Time: August 9, 2006, 3:44 am
Ohh top down raglan with buttons on the left…that’s exactly what I’ve been wanting to do. Are you making this pattern up as you go? Or can you share?
Comment from av
Time: August 10, 2006, 12:31 am
have you any tips/references for top-down raglans, or is it a bit of ‘keep increasing at 4 points until big enough to cover chest, then split off to make arms’? i havent come across any patterns and really want to have a go.
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