How do I make a curved bottoms for a cardigan?

How-to Questions
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I want to make a top-down wrap cardigan with a curved bottom that is similar to James Coviello’s Ruffled Cardigan
(http://treschicveronique.blogspot.com/2007/11/paint-town-red.html). I already have a pattern for ruffles, but I just want to figure out what decreases I would need to do so that I could curve the ends of the sweater. Any advice about this would be much appreciated. A free pattern with similar curves would also be much appreciated. Thanks in advance to those who respond.

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My guess is you’d pretty much do the same tech as you would working a neck dec if you were working bottom up…SSK and K2tog. But looking at the patt you’d most likely do them every row in order to get a more rapid curve, rather than the gradual slope of a neckline (where the decs are eor or ev 4th row). Or a double dec might be warranted.

There are perhaps some free shrug-type patts that might be similar to which you could add the ruffled edge.

Do you belong to Rav? Lots of ideas there. Found these on garnstudio:

Check the instructions for how the shaping is done and if you want to do it top down, just replace any ‘bottom up’ incs with the top down decs.

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Thanks. These are quite helpful, especially the white sweater. I do belong to ravelry, could you send me links of the great ideas, as I spend a lot of time on it and did not really see much that would help with this particular project.