This may come under the title, “Confessions of a Lazy Knitwear Designer,” but I’ve been trying to write a size inclusive raglan sweater.\u00a0 Look for it in two years, this is going to take a while.\u00a0 When I read an EZ line somewhere that raglans are written in pieces and seamed because the directions took up less space and were easier to write, I thought that was a condemnation of knitting magazine editors.\u00a0 Now I think, oh, easier to write?\u00a0 Let me try this!<\/p>\n
I am trying to write it up for sizes where the formulas break, in my defense.\u00a0 But I am definitely in the space where easy sounds great.\u00a0 With PDF patterns, I don’t think I need to aim at short instructions.\u00a0 (Be warned, you may not want to just hit print all if you have bought my patterns.)\u00a0 But in addition to writing my first ever raglan in pieces, I realized that I don’t know how to write at the same time instructions.\u00a0 When I was in college, I’d make a graph of the pieces I was knitting on acetate. When I had to flip the instructions over, I’d flip my graph and read it through the backwards symbols.\u00a0 This post<\/a> is about how to knit a pattern that uses at the same time instructions, and so is this one.<\/a><\/p>\n I’m not sure if I will take the jump to at the same time instructions, but writing the sweater with flat instructions is definitely easier than writing the sweater in the round.\u00a0 Not easier for knitting though.\u00a0 Hmm. What are your preferences?<\/p>\n