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My first top-down pullover raglan, a crew neck. (Does anybody wear these any more?) In my previous post I gave a brief description of how a top-down raglan is developed. The picture above shows the beginning from the point of view of the knitter. The picture above shows the beginning of the sweater as if you were looking at a sweater. The yarn was a gift and I had plenty of it--good thing--because two of the three colors didn't match each other even though they are "no dye lot" yarns! Yeah, right. Because of this I had to separate the colors because the two non matching skeins would be quite obvious. I will definitely make more of top down raglans. Besides being fun to do, there are a lot of new techniques to learn. Why top downs over the traditional bottom up and seamed sweaters: --they are seamless --will know if are running short of yarn and can adjust --can try it on to check for fit as you go along --they are fun! The basis of this brown sweater is The Complete Boo...

This is one of the nearly completed sweaters I discovered in a closet a few months ago. All that was left to do was the bottom half of the sleeves. I bought this yarn before some of you were born! I had knitted it in an all over rib but made the stitches too loose so it was too large. I undid it and later made it into a different pattern but similar to the one in the photo. I undid that one because I didn't like the way it was turning out. Thus, this version. I began it about ten years ago, which explains the style. I didn't want to start over , once again, as this acrylic mohair wannabe is not easy to take apart. It is Fluffy by Unger and was manufactured for years and years. It is supposed to have a lot of ease but not 47" worth! Those drop shoulders shouldn't be that wide either. Guess I didn't measure! The V-neck should be a lot smaller. Old style or not I love this very soft yarn and I love red. I knitted a garter stitch strip to sew in the V to make it somew...

This is a repeat of the entry which I accidently deleted last week. I discovered that you cannot delete a photo without deleting the blog entry, or at least I couldn't. I am putting it here again in case I need to refer back to it and there will actually be a post here. The comments will be included but I'll have to put them in myself. Friday, August 5, 2011 It's done. I had to un-do about a total of 1/4 of it, either because there was a stitch problem or I didn't like the way it looked. I really didn't mind as this was my first knitted top-down raglan (crocheted ones are so much easier). I see that I went too deep with the raglan, thus making the sleeves too large above the elbow. This sweater was a good choice as the neckline rib is done at the beginning. I can use the measurements of this sweater as reference for future sweaters. http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/70111.html?r=1 Edited to add: you may have to be a member of Lionbrand to view this pattern. If you ...