Wear What You Knit: Perfect Sweater Fit & Style
Make sure all your sweaters fit perfectly and flatter your body type! Choose great patterns and make them truly yours by adjusting the shape, features and sizing.
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Make sure all your sweaters fit perfectly and flatter your body type! Choose great patterns and make them truly yours by adjusting the shape, features and sizing.
Yarn, Stitch Pattern & Gauge
Meet knitwear designer Sally Melville and start learning how the texture, drape and patterning of knitted fabric can affect how a garment looks on you. When choosing a pattern and yarn, you’ll also want to check your gauge for the best fit. If you need to recalculate, Sally can help!
Choosing a Flattering Style
Get your projects into shape with Sally’s advice on choosing flattering styles. Make the connection between your knitting and your closet as you choose shapes that appeal. Sally explains how you can adapt the side shape, sleeves and necklines in your knitting patterns accordingly.
Understanding Size & Ease
Sally helps clear up the tricky subjects of size and ease. Get a handle on how pattern sizes relate to your own body, and choose the right amount of tightness or looseness, known as ease, in your garment. Sally will even show you how to work with multiple sizes to make your sweater fit right all over.
Measuring for an Ideal Fit
Get the measurements you really need for a sweater that fits and flatters your shape. Sally shares critical design principles that might seem counterintuitive but that really work! You’ll also learn how to get the most accurate measurements for the best-fitting sweater.
Adjusting a Pattern to Fit Perfectly
Learn how to adjust a pattern to match your measurements. With some simple formulas, Sally helps you get the total sweater length, waist length and sleeve lengths you desire, as well as the correct shoulder width and sleeve cast-on for a comfortable fit.
What to Wear: With Paper Dolls
Sometimes the sweater fits great, but it still looks wrong. Sally encourages you to create paper dolls with a variety of sweater lengths plus pants and skirt types to figure out what outfits will work. You might just discover a new combination to try!
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