I'd like an easy pattern for a v-neck top-down cardigan, knit in one piece if possible. I also want to use size 10-1/2 needles and worsted weight yarn.
Can anyone direct me to a pattern for this?
Thanks.
Pat
Wanted--Pattern for V-Neck Top-Down Cardigan
Oct 17, 2008
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If you don't mind a raglan, there's pattern generators available at
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and thedietdiary.com/blog To make a V neck, you'd only allocate one st for each front and increase along the edges every other or every 4th row, depending on how deep a v you want.
sue
The website and pattern generator looks good but I could only get a pattern for a pullover, not a v-neck cardigan. Maybe I was looking at the wrong thing.
Pat
ittingfool.comand thedietdiary.com/blog To make a V neck, you'd
No that's the right site. The basic pattern is for a pullover, but you can make a V neck cardigan with the same basic directions. The only difference is you wouldn't join the neck sts and would subtract the front sts to only allow 1 st for each front. Here's the directions for a bolero type sweater, all you need to do is keep knitting the sleeves and body until the length you want -
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's another tutorial here -
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that explains the basic construction. In this one you wouldn't cast on sts for the front neck, but instead would do the increases along the front edge.sue
atwww.knittingfool.comand thedietdiary.com/blog To make a V neck, you'd
Thanks for the suggestions. You've been very helpful. I think I can proceed now!
Pat
.knittingfool.comandthedietdiary.com/blog To make a V neck, you'd
patetc spun a FINE 'yarn':
+I'd like an easy pattern for a v-neck top-down cardigan, knit in one +piece if possible. I also want to use size 10-1/2 needles and worsted +weight yarn. + +Can anyone direct me to a pattern for this? + +Thanks. + +Patpatetc. . . Pat Suzie has given you great advice, let me add that acquiring any of Elizabeth Zimmermann's books would also assist you enormously. Noreen
Zimmermann's books would also assist you enormously.
Or Barbara Walker's Knitting from the Top Down. That one's harder to find, but any of them can usually be got from your local library. On loan from another if your branch doesn't have it.
sue
Zimmermann's books would also assist you enormously.
Oh, and the book Fitted Knits, by Stefanie Japel has top down patterns, including a few cardigans.
sue
suzee spun a FINE 'yarn':
+suzee wrote: ++YarnWright wrote: +++patetc spun a FINE 'yarn': +++ +>>+I'd like an easy pattern for a v-neck top-down cardigan, knit in one +>>+piece if possible. I also want to use size 10-1/2 needles and worsted +>>+weight yarn. +>>+ +>>+Can anyone direct me to a pattern for this? +>>+ +>>+Thanks. +>>+ +>>+Pat +++ +++ +++patetc. . . +++Pat +++Suzie has given you great advice, let me add that acquiring any of Elizabeth Zimmermann's books would also assist you enormously. ++ ++Or Barbara Walker's Knitting from the Top Down. That one's harder to find, but any of them can usually be got from your local library. On loan from another if your branch doesn't have it. + +Oh, and the book Fitted Knits, by Stefanie Japel has top down patterns, including a few cardigans. + +suesuzee. . .
Hi, Sue! There was a whole circular movement in the late 60's early 70's, magazines devoted to just circular... I have some, but do you think my tired old brain can think of the NAME of them? I even got some from our "Wooly/Slinky"... I have them in STORAGE, and while my brain is tired, my body just doesn't want to go there... LOL Noreen
PS, I THINK Meg Swansen (EZ's daughter) has some books on the subject too, if I'm not mistaken.... (Once I thought I was mistaken, but I was wrong... :D)
YarnWright spun a FINE 'yarn':
+suzee spun a FINE 'yarn': + ++suzee wrote: +++YarnWright wrote: ++++patetc spun a FINE 'yarn': ++++ ++>>+I'd like an easy pattern for a v-neck top-down cardigan, knit in one ++>>+piece if possible. I also want to use size 10-1/2 needles and worsted ++>>+weight yarn. ++>>+ ++>>+Can anyone direct me to a pattern for this? ++>>+ ++>>+Thanks. ++>>+ ++>>+Pat ++++ ++++ ++++patetc. . . ++++Pat ++++Suzie has given you great advice, let me add that acquiring any of Elizabeth Zimmermann's books would also assist you enormously. +++ +++Or Barbara Walker's Knitting from the Top Down. That one's harder to find, but any of them can usually be got from your local library. On loan from another if your branch doesn't have it. ++ ++Oh, and the book Fitted Knits, by Stefanie Japel has top down patterns, including a few cardigans. ++ ++sue + + +suzee. . . + +Hi, Sue! +There was a whole circular movement in the late 60's early 70's, magazines devoted to just circular... I have some, but do you think my tired old brain can think of the NAME of them? I even got some from our "Wooly/Slinky"... +I have them in STORAGE, and while my brain is tired, my body just doesn't want to go there... LOL +Noreen + +PS, I THINK Meg Swansen (EZ's daughter) has some books on the subject too, if I'm not mistaken.... +(Once I thought I was mistaken, but I was wrong... :D)Something on the order of Spindrift maybe??? Today is NOT a 'thinking" kind of day... Noreen
You just jogged my memory. I have a book on top-down raglans from Spinnerin! It was one of the first knitting books I ever bought and I made several sweaters from it. Now, if I can just find it!!!
Pat
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patetc spun a FINE 'yarn':
+You just jogged my memory. I have a book on top-down raglans from +Spinnerin! It was one of the first knitting books I ever bought and I +made several sweaters from it. Now, if I can just find it!!! + +Patpatetc. . Pat, That's IT, Pat, Spinnerin! Thank YOU for jogging MY poor memory! Good luck in locating it/them, mine are in storage..... Noreen
in storage.....
Knitting Pure & Simple has a pattern for a v-neck top down cardigan. I really enjoy her patterns, as I am not a fan of seaming.
-Shannon
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mine are in storage.....
m @ it's FINEST.
I now strated a v neck top to bottom sweater for a friend ,, mirjam
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