Hello you wonderful knitters out there, can anyone please help me? So…I’m stash busting my wool and knitting a striped toddler jumper. I’ve done 3 colours all in 10 rows of stocking stitch. Upto raglan shaping there are 44 rows. Back and front have both worked out great. Sleeves…different altogether, Aagh!!! To the raglan shaping there are 60 rows so my stripes now don’t line up on the raglan. Will it make any difference if I was to knit 14 row stripes up to the raglan and then change to 10 row stripes from the shapings? Or is it better to knit 10 row stripes and not have them lined up in the same colours at the raglan? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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What is the name of your pattern and designer?
You could consider knitting the sleeves top down. You’d have to reverse the raglan shaping from neck to underarm, working increases at the raglan line instead of decreases. That way you could match up the stripe pattern. If there is sleeve shaping you would work decreases in place of increases from underarm to cuff.
Alternatively you could figure out which color to start with at the cuff so that the raglan colors would match on sleeve and body at the yoke. You probably won’t match the stripes between body and lower sleeves but that would be ok.
In both cases you would keep to the 10 row stripes.
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Thank you so much for the adviice. I’ll work out where the stripe starts at the raglan and work it out from there. Never thought to knit the sleeve top down so may even try that out on my next stash busting project LOL.
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Hello! Thank you so much for advice, first sleeve completed …its perfect now.
I worked it out from raglan shaping backwards as I hadn’t pulled the original sleeve out so used that as a guide.
Dont know what I’ll do if I knit a different size in future LOL.
The pattern was a really old one that I used for size and added the stripes.
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Oh good. We’d love to see a photo when you finish!
It’s great you’ve worked out your striped sleeves.
For a future project you should be able to calculate how many additional rows there are at the bottom of the sleeve and decide what to do with them.
The number of rows before the raglan shaping
60 on sleeve - 44 on body = 16 additional rows.
This method of calculation should work with the other sizes if you want to add stripes or another colour motif or pattern.
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Perfect!