The only things I’ve knitted so far with circular needles are some children’s hats.
I wouldn’t mind having a go at making a sweater but I wondered which is the best (read easiest) way of going about it.
Is there any advantage to starting from the neck and working down?- at least I’d have fewer stitches to muck up doing it that way - or starting from the rib and getting used to the pattern before needing to make increases/decreases.
Thanks Jan for that post on the sweater.
Great to get some feedback on this and please say why you prefer one way rather than the other
I think a top-down raglan would be really easy to start with. You can even make up your own pattern. All you have to do is take the measurement of your neck, multiply it by you stitch gauge, and cast on that many stitches. You need to divide the stitches into front, back and sleeves and increase before and after the stitch marker that you place there to separate them. You can choose to join in the round too, so you either get a pullover or a cardigan. Once you increase enough that your sleeves would fit around the circumference of your arm, you place them on scrap yarn and just keep on knitting. You can add fancy stitches, waist shaping, different colors ect., but I think for a first sweater it would be the easiest to do it top-down. Good luck whatever way you choose though!
Limey I like both but prefer top down because you can try it on and it is easier to start with fewer sts.I also like it because you can see the progess faster. :woohoo:
I knit mine bottom-up, and my favorites to knit are seamless yokes, raglans, set in sleeves, and drop shoulder. The last 2 are from Elizabeth Zimmermann’s The Knitting Workshop.
