I am knitting a fair isle sweater without the pattern just one color bottom rib to neck. How do I do the decreases without them looking so noticeable and wonky on round needles
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Hi there Dancelady, loving that you’re working without a pattern. Am I right with thinking you’re knitting a yoke sweater with back, front and sleeves joined and you’re now decreasing to the collar? For the decreases, personally I think the K2Tog is the least noticeable and also easiest one to execute. And to avoid any decrease line, you could work the decreases randomly. By that I mean, evenly around your decrease rounds but on the decrease round following, don’t decrease on top of the last, just shuffle them round a bit. Hope that makes sense
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Sometimes decreases look a bit wonky and obvious until your garment gets its first wash. Then they often settle in to the fabric and become less noticeable.
If you have a swatch, or spare yarn to make a swatch, you could do a few decreases, wash the swatch, and see how they look then.
Also, I sometimes gently adjust adjacent stitches to get a better tension if there is a loose stitch in or near a decrease or increase.