Hey everyone! So I’m knitting up this cardigan pattern:
Novita Isoveli: Taiga cardigan
The size XS is too long for me, I will be making it shorter. For a quick context you start with a 1x1 ribbing then do stockinette all the way up to the neck, the cast on is both front pieces aswell as the back piece, so the cardigan (apart from the sleeves) are one complete piece, once that’s finished you then pick up the stiches on front edge and knit the boarder.
With making the body shorter, I’d love to make the ribbing shorter aswell, the pattern says 10cm ribbing, I’d love to have less, question is, would that impact picking up the stitches on the front sides to knit the boarder or not?
I have doubled the stitch count anyway as I’m using a much finer yarn and half the needle size suggested in the pattern…double the amount of stiches makes the right gauge for this. The only reason I’m not sure is the pattern
" Using the smaller needles and with RS facing, pick up and knit sts for the border. Start at the bottom corner of the right front piece and pick up 13 sts per 10 cm. Knit the 25(25)27(27)29(29) back sts and at the same time decrease 0(0)2(2)0(0) sts. Pick up 13 sts per 10 cm from the left front piece."
It should be fine to make the ribbing shorter long with the body?