What is the name of this style of sweater?

I made this sweater for my son a couple of years ago and want to know what this style of sleeve is called if anyone can help me. It’s king cole 5645 i can’t find on ravelry but here’s a link to a seller with photo

https://www.cottontailcrafts.co.uk/all-patterns/knitting-pattern-king-cole-5645-bramble-dk-sweater-hoodie.html

It is knit flat bottom up and stitches are cast on at the underarm over a number of rows until the entire arm length is on the needle (both arms) and then cast off along the arm and shoulder making a kind of T shape.
The front is slightly different as it allows for the neck shaping.
The arms are seamed the entire length from wrist to neck and again seamed from wrist to under arm.

It produces a long vertical stripe on the sleeves rather than horizontal stripes. And the vertical stripe continues up one arm, across back/chest and down the other arm.

I’d like to find a pattern in a larger size but don’t know what to look for.

It’s a very interesting and attractive style. I’ve seen it called a T-Shape Sweater, just as you describe.

Here’s one from Ravelry. The book is available on Etsy.

I would also think that you could perhaps modify a pattern to enlarge it by using measurements for a current sweater.

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Thank you.
I saw the one you linked and I like the way it shows off the colour stripe but didn’t like the boat neck line (I like that neck line on myself but not on my son it wouldn’t suit him) and also it only goes up to agen10 years and he is already 12.

I thought if there was another name for this type of sleeve style I might have better luck in searching for a pattern.

I think I could work out how to enlarge the pattern i have if/when my health improves but it’s a bit beyond me at the moment. I was hoping to find a pattern that didn’t need any modification on size so I could just knit some colour work without having to think.

A lot of patterns seem to go up to age 10 or 12 and totally miss out the sizes between 12 years and full grown adult.

In sewing terms, sleeves that are continuous with the rest of the garment (i.e. no armscye seam) are called “grown-on sleeves” or, confusingly “cut-on sleeves”. (How do you cut something on? Magic scissors? But they mean “cut onto the bodice” in an odd way that does make sense if you think about it for a while!)

And T shaped is definitely a good description for the style.

I don’t know how to search for this style on Ravelry (don’t think there’s an attribute tag for it).

I agree with you that “tweens” are often left out of pattern sizing.

If I happen to see anything suitable, I’ll come back and post. I had a funny feeling that this style was covered in Priscilla Gibson-Roberts’ book “Knitting in the Old Way”, but of course I can’t find my copy. Maybe someone else with a better organised house could check. But she may do it with a boat neck too.

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Found the book, but I had remembered incorrectly and it doesn’t cover that sleeve type after all. Sorry!

Oh thanks for trying! That’s really kind of you. Thanks for the info about the terms too.

I found one other after trawling the Internet but it only went to age 10 and neither that one nor the one I have already used before have the sleeve type named.

When it comes to it (I’m a way off as I have a sweater on the needles and another many coloured sweater for my son in the planning stages) I think I will have to use the pattern I have previously used as a starting point and scale up a size myself. It’s a shame that when scaling a pattern it’s not just as simple as looking at the number sequence already used for the smaller sizes, they never go up in a regular way. I was just hoping for a straight forward “pick up and follow” pattern for the size and shaping as this sweater will be stranded colour work so I will already have enough on my hands dealing with that - I do like maths and I am getting more skilled at knitting maths but sometimes I’d just rather not.

Looks like I’ll have to resize or design from scratch every pattern as he goes through his teens!
…maybe I’ll produce a book just for teen knits! Ha ha!
Not really - no other kid would be the same size as my son, slim and long, the patterns I make would be useless for anyone else.

The pattern I have is really nice as the sleeves are tapered and don’t bulk under the arm or have a wide wrist as one might imagine and we really love the effect of the stripe going down the arm rather than across.

Thanks again, I really appreciate the input.

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Do you sew at all? You could make a mock-up of the shape you want, basing it off of the sweater you like and something his current size. Check for fit, and then knit according to the measurements of the fabric pieces?

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Hey, thanks for this suggestion it sounds like a really good idea but I’m not really a sewer. I wanted to start sewing and got a machine several years back but then my health got worse and now I can’t sit at all so all the sewing and learning how to work patterns is on hold, long term. One day… fingers crossed I’ll get to it.

Thanks again.

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It’s a shame Ann Budd’s books don’t have this style.

I was thinking that Tin Can Knits might have something for teenage boys, but they also seem to have a large empty spot between the largest children’s size and the smallest men’s size.

I did find this top-down raglan designed for tween and teen boys:

I think a teen knits book could be a success on the market!

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