I am trying to build a raglan sweater from the book One Piece Knits. It calls for 90 stitches to be cast on. This is separated into 34 stitches from front and back and 11 stitches for each sleeve. Markers are placed between back, front and each sleeve, 4 markers.
I was to increase a stitch on each side of each marker until the back has 124 stitches. This means the front also has 124 stitches and each sleeve has been increased to 101 stitches. This took 45 rounds to achieve, which is what it said it should take. The problem is that the sleeve is ridiculously large . I am seeing that it should be close to about 65 stitches. What am I doing wrong?
Instructions said,”inc 1 st on each side of each marker, which is how I went from 34 stitches to 124 for both the front and back and from 11 stitches to 101 for each sleeve.
Thank you in advance!!!
Hello
Are you able to see a name or number for the pattern? Or could you take a photo o the pattern pic so people can see it?
What is it that’s giving you the information you should have 65 stitches rather than 101 for the sleeve?
If there is a bit of the pattern instruction you can type out or cover the rest of the pattern and take a photo so we can see the exact wording, that would be useful (not the whole pattern or large parts).
I don’t usually make raglan sleeves but I’m sure the extra info will help others to help you.
What I do know from my own knitting though is sleeves do tend to be pretty wide, wider than I expect them to be, but they turn out fine.
If you could give us maybe the row before and a couple of rows after that instruction, that might help.
Thank you for responding. I have had to travel for a family issue. Will be a day or two to get back, but thanks for the help
Most top down raglan patterns change the distribution of increases as you progress down the yoke. For example, they start with an increase either side of each marker for X number of increases, and then they increase on the body side of the marker at the same rate, but change the rate of the sleeve increase to say, every other, or every third time.
Could you have missed this instruction in the pattern? It might look be buried in the same sentence, e.g increase (etc) X number of times and then increase (etc) a further X number of times until 45 round are worked.
There could also be a pattern error, and they may have overlooked this second instruction.
Looking at another design from this book on Ravelry, there are complaints about the numbers of increases and ridiculous sizes of her patterns! Apparently no response from the designer and low levels of satisfaction.
There may be pattern errata that are difficult to find work books. You could try looking at the publishers website to see if they list errata?
I replied to you but it was directed to @Creations for sone reason !
Apologies both!
Thank you for your help. I did determine that I was following her instructions and the initial arm size would end up ridiculously large for almost any person. I am also using Knitting from the Top Down by Barbara G. Walker. (Feel better since she is quoted in Vogue Knitting). I have been able to restart the project, I am making. I contacted the person for whom I am making the sweater, I have altered reduced the arm size adequately. I think can move on with this project.
A special thanks to everyone who tried to help me here. Glad I found this forum! I sometimes run into a challenge and don’t have other knitters in the area that I have found. We lost our one yarn store during covid. Of course, I live in Florida, so I understand why this might not be a big hobby.