Wow! That is an amazing tutorial! Thank you very much. I have a question please. When you have the back neck width and you want to calculate the total neck circumference , usually it is back neck width * 3.14. But I see other knitters take the back neck width and multiply by 2. Which one is correct? I ask because when I want to add ribbing to the neck, if I have the back neck width only, I add the distance of the ribbing on both sides of the neck and consider this as total back neck width then I multiply by 3.14 to get total neck circumference. So if my back neck width is 20 cm and the ribbing will be 2 cm, I add 2+2+20= 24 new back neck width then I multiply this by 3.14. Is this correct?
Rima - what an excellent question. I usually use circumference of my head - and take it from there - not that much math is needed. Why do I use the circumference of my head? Because I have to be able to pull the sweater or blouse over my head. And that is going to solve that "problem". Then I decide - do I want a turtleneck? If so I do not need to add any extra sts. If I want my opening to be a little bigger then I add just as many sts as I need - not many though, if I do not want my opening to be huge. Your using 3.14 is a formula to figure out the circumference of certain distance that runs from (or through) the middle of the circle. With your math you would end up with a huge opening for your head. (20+2+2)x3.14 = 75.36 cm, which is 29 inches - average head is 21 inches, which is ~53 centimeters - I hope this helps you to make a best decision. 🍀
You took me back to my school recess where the girls who taught me to knit would use formulas to be even. I cannot thank you enough it feels good. Excellent tutorial in this age where no one knows WHY you need to know HOW to do things using Math.
Very nice and clear,.......finally it all comes down to a good sense of common sense.....not very common in this era of consumerism when every thing, even creativity ,is for sale
I have always felt intimidated to knit sweaters .. that is until now! It’s just a matter of math and doing the correct amount of increases ! Thanks so much for the tutorial. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
You are the best! Every pattern I tried to decipher has a different approach. Formulas are not always reliable because their gauge and yours do not always match. Your approach is superior. Thank you so much.
Interesting way to do a yoke sweater. This give me an idea of how much yoke increases are adjustable to ones preference and ease.🤔🙂🙂 Great reference video for future ideas.
Glad it was helpful Bareiria, you can readjust the stitches in rows according to your measurements - you may need few more stitches for a very broad shoulders, and lower number of stitches around your armpits... you can also adust them according to a pattern... 🍀🍀🍀🍀
Thank you very much for watching my video. And yes, you can use it even for crochet, but remember crochet stitches can be different lengths. It’s all about the math good luck ❤️
Thank you. Bronislavia. You’re the best. We see the detailed you created in putting this tutorial together. We really appreciate your way of forming the you’re and sweater. 👍🏼
Hi Bronislava, You are a great teacher, this is what I have been looking for, how to calculate the number of sts required to go round circumference of my chest measurements. Excellent tutorial😘👍👍👍
You are welcome, Alison. I think I need to make one more video about Yoke, and dealing with patterns - I guess, not as elaborate, but a video with suggestions more or less.... I am happy you enjoyed it 💛
Hi, since I increase stitches evenly spaced, I stop increasing when I kind of get a circumference for sleeve (x2) + a circumference for body = circumference before you connect body, and knit sleeves separately... which should be somewhere around underarms (if needed you may knit few rows straight down without increasing to get to underarm area)... hope this helps
Excellent explanation! So clearly communicated with pictures. I am watching from India. Your accent is very clear. Can you please let me know from which country you belong . Thank you. NC
thank you so much for the tutorial, every other pattern, they just told me to make it on my intuition XD they never provided what i should base my sweater on, which was furstrating :b now i know what ill be doing, your video is very educational and i appreciate it a lot ^^
Yes you can, cream peonies... do a test swatch with the stitch pattern you would like to use, so you can count stitches and rows and then apply numbers to calculate... although you need to take into consideration that stitch and rows measurements are different from knitting - so you for example in knitting you would have to add stitches every other row, but in crochet you may have to add stitches every row if the stitch is very long.... 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
@@HandMadeRukodelky I'm a relatively new knitter who crossed over from the crochet world...looking to develop more intricate skills led me to subscribe to your channel, among other's. I've come to really enjoy your style of teaching, you explain the why, which lends my mind freedom to create. Thank you🥰❣be well
Lisa, it Depends - if I don't want to see stitches too much then below the stitch, if I want it as a "design" then YO (lacy method) - these are two of my examples...
Very very useful information. I do not knit bit I do crochet. Thanks a lot. I would also like to know, if you don't have the subject to actually measure, how would you design a sweater in different sizes? Craft yarn council don't have all the measurements.
Hi Rashami - great question.. I usually design either size small (for my child), or medium (for myself), or for a 3 months old child (I have a doll) or for an American Girl Doll (I also have a doll) --- I try to design with measurements in mind, or I take an outfit and as I knit I compare if it fits over the item... If I knit a stitch pattern I chose it according to how many stitches I have on my needles and how many repeats would fit in there. It's all math. Occasionally I have to rip it and redo it so it fits the measurements. I do not do patterns to fit other sizes because it is a lot of work and it would take me away from my other projects. Resizing is a math process - how many stitches and rows fit into an inch or a centimeter. And what stitch pattern will fit in them. 🍀🍀🍀
Lieve, I usually add 2+ stitches - depending on how many I need for the pattern (that I would be knitting on the body part, and or sleeves), and/or depending how many stitches I may need for sleeves/body part if knitting a simple top/sweater.... 🍀
Hi Alison, I wish I could too 💛 - I am working on several gifts now, so all my videotaping is put on back burner... sigh - I should do it in the future when I am not pressed for time, but I may forget, I need people remind me their requests 😕
Hi, My sweaters usually get enough ease with regular knitting... if you knit tight, you may need to add some ease to it... if you knit loose, you may have to be careful with adding stitches, unless you like roomy sweaters... 🍀
Thank you very much for your tutorial .Now I have the tools to start a sweater from measurement.Just a little question: How about ease. How much should I calculate?
Hi Pippi - I prefer my sweaters/blouses roomier, even wider than needed (=oversized) so you will have to figure out how much ease you want and integrate it into your math - not sure how much you would calculate. You need to keep in mind also how the yarn "stretches" after you hand wash it (= what type of yarn it is, does it hold the shape? or does it loosen up after washing?) I hope this helps 🍀🍀🍀
Hi U hv explained so nicely.. but hw to increase sts in lace pattern... I hv started Yoke sweater for my daughter with all over lace pattern but very confused hw to increase sts.... Cn u pls help me
Hii Gogi - that is another beast and would take a lot of explanation, but I would suggest using lace patterns, that would repeat only every few rows, then knit regular rows and in those rows increase as many stitches as you would use in multiples of your lacy pattern 🍀
Hi, you can increase in different ways - depending on what look of your increases you want on your knitted fabric - 1. you can do yarn over (YO), 2. you can knit one stitch below the stitch you will be knitting next (K1B), 3. you can knit one through the back loop and then immediately through the front loop of the same stitch (KBF) - good luck 🍀
🙁 I’m still stuck on row 1! My gauge is the same as yours so I have 100 sts cast on. But I need to increase my first row by 14 stitches to get to a total of 210 stitches within 3 inches because I have 42 inches around my shoulders.. can anyone help me?
First do your ribbing=edge with no increases (4 rows would be sufficient); then you have 16 more rows left to spread 110 stitches over it (210-100=110)... If you increase every other row that will be 110 sts over 8 rows then.... 110/8= 13.75 sts - which means aprox 13-14 sts each row... so I think I would do Row 5 - 10 increases: (knit 10, increase 1 - repeat 10x), Row 6 just knit 110 sts... then you have 7 more rows to increase another 100 sts - Row 7 - I would increase by 11 sts = (K10, incr 1) - 11x (= you will still have to increase y 89 sts over 6 rows) - you should have now 121 sts, Row 8 - K121; Row 9 - increase by 11 sts = (k11, incr) - 11x; Row 10 - K132: now we can accelerate more stitches in each round = Row 11 - we have 132 sts = increase every 10 sts (k10, incr) - 13x, you will have 2 sts left - just knit them and no increase... 132+13= 145 sts in Row 12 (K145) - at this point, you still need to increase 65 sts over 4 rows (every other row = Row 13, 15, 17, 19) Can you figure out how you would like to continue in those next sts? Do the math - it will be good practice for you - and let me know....
this is what I came up with for the remainder… Row 13: *(k 10,inc) 14 times 159sts Row 14: knit 159 stitches Row 15: *(k 10, inc)* 15 times 174sts Row 16: knit 174 stitches Row 17: *( k 10, inc)* 17 times 191 stitches Row 18: knit 191 stitches Row 19: *(k10, inc) 19 times 210 stitches
Wow! That is an amazing tutorial! Thank you very much. I have a question please. When you have the back neck width and you want to calculate the total neck circumference , usually it is back neck width * 3.14. But I see other knitters take the back neck width and multiply by 2. Which one is correct?
I ask because when I want to add ribbing to the neck, if I have the back neck width only, I add the distance of the ribbing on both sides of the neck and consider this as total back neck width then I multiply by 3.14 to get total neck circumference. So if my back neck width is 20 cm and the ribbing will be 2 cm, I add 2+2+20= 24 new back neck width then I multiply this by 3.14. Is this correct?
Rima - what an excellent question. I usually use circumference of my head - and take it from there - not that much math is needed. Why do I use the circumference of my head? Because I have to be able to pull the sweater or blouse over my head. And that is going to solve that "problem". Then I decide - do I want a turtleneck? If so I do not need to add any extra sts. If I want my opening to be a little bigger then I add just as many sts as I need - not many though, if I do not want my opening to be huge. Your using 3.14 is a formula to figure out the circumference of certain distance that runs from (or through) the middle of the circle. With your math you would end up with a huge opening for your head. (20+2+2)x3.14 = 75.36 cm, which is 29 inches - average head is 21 inches, which is ~53 centimeters - I hope this helps you to make a best decision. 🍀
This is why I love reading comments! You find a wealth of information.
Right? And sometimes they put a different light on things 🥂
You took me back to my school recess where the girls who taught me to knit would use formulas to be even. I cannot thank you enough it feels good. Excellent tutorial in this age where no one knows WHY you need to know HOW to do things using Math.
You are so welcome, Elsa 🌹
Very nice and clear,.......finally it all comes down to a good sense of common sense.....not very common in this era of consumerism when every thing, even creativity ,is for sale
Thank you 🌹
This is the best video which helped me understand so much! I really appreciate the help❤
I have always felt intimidated to knit sweaters .. that is until now! It’s just a matter of math and doing the correct amount of increases ! Thanks so much for the tutorial. 🙌🏻🙌🏻
You are so welcome! & Happy New Year 🥂🍾
You are the best! Every pattern I tried to decipher has a different approach. Formulas are not always reliable because their gauge and yours do not always match. Your approach is superior. Thank you so much.
Hi Renee, happy to help - let me know how it will turn out 🍀🍀🍀
This is the most clear knitting video i have seen on youtube. Thank you so much! Please post more
Enjoy Monai 🌹
Interesting way to do a yoke sweater. This give me an idea of how much yoke increases are adjustable to ones preference and ease.🤔🙂🙂 Great reference video for future ideas.
Glad it was helpful Bareiria, you can readjust the stitches in rows according to your measurements - you may need few more stitches for a very broad shoulders, and lower number of stitches around your armpits... you can also adust them according to a pattern... 🍀🍀🍀🍀
Thank you for an amazingly clear, in depth tutorial. You have made the mystery of how to calculate a yoked sweater easier to understand.
Brilliant Always knew this was required but the methodology alluded me of spreading them out over the Rows - thankyou so much
You're very welcome! 🍀
You are a goddess for being able to explain this so beautifully and simply. My dog is going to be very happy with a new sweater
Thank you. Clear and crisp instructions. Very beautiful demonstration. Perfect tutorial. You are simply amazing. Thank you once again. ❤
I second the compliment.The pacing of your instruction is perfect. Overall your instruction is perfect. I loved your succinct direct use of language.
Thank you!! What an amazing tutorial. Exactly my prayers answered. I now understand how to adapt a pattern so that it fits my body.
Hi Lina, so happy the video was helpful 🌹🍀🌹🍀
What a great lecture! I couldn’t find any better explanation of this topic ❤️🌟 thank you so much for putting your efforts in it!
Thank you very much - I am very happy that all my effort was very useful. 💛
Thank you. I'll have to watch again as I hate math and was more interested than writing down.
Thank you Rosee, I know the math can be overwhelming, but if you do it slowly, and concentrate, you can do it 🍀🍀🍀🍀
Amazing tutorial!!! I was looking for something like this for months!!!! thank you!!!! I'll try to use this method for my crochet sweaters!
Thank you very much for watching my video. And yes, you can use it even for crochet, but remember crochet stitches can be different lengths. It’s all about the math good luck ❤️
Thank you ,instructions are clear with step by step. Thanks
You are welcome!
Thank you. Bronislavia. You’re the best. We see the detailed you created in putting this tutorial together. We really appreciate your way of forming the you’re and sweater. 👍🏼
You are welcome, Maria. Glad it was helpful 🌸🌸
You are such a good teacher and explain all those details so much clearly 🙏💝
Thank you so much for your Amazon video 👌
Wow! Such a complicated exercise explained so clearly and thoroughly (and humorously). Thank you for sharing your hard work and knowledge!
You're so welcome Penny. happy new year 🍀🍀🥂
Excelente tutorial. En un inglés comprensible para los que tenemos el idioma estudiado en academia. Muchas gracias desde Argentina.
Eso me hace feliz 💐💛
Verdade, haha!
Wow!!!! This is an AMAZING class!!! Thak you so, so much!!!! This is awsome!!!!
Thank you this is very thoroughly explained!
Hi, I appreciate your appreciation 😊
Wonderful lesson! Thank you Miss B!
You're so welcome Roxane ☕️
Thank you for describing in detail. Very interesting 👌
My pleasure! 🌹
This tutorial was just amazing, thank you for explaining everything so clearly.
You're very welcome 🌹
Hi Bronislava,
You are a great teacher, this is what I have been looking for, how to calculate the number of sts required to go round circumference of my chest measurements. Excellent tutorial😘👍👍👍
You are welcome, Alison. I think I need to make one more video about Yoke, and dealing with patterns - I guess, not as elaborate, but a video with suggestions more or less.... I am happy you enjoyed it 💛
It’s really good very nice information and calculations of yoke.
Thanks for liking it - Happy New Year 🥂🍾
Era exatamente isso que eu estava procurando. Muito obrigada.
Thank you so much you are such a great teacher.
Glad you think so, Sandra - enjoy 🌸🌸🌸
Thanks, really good. Very useful, as I just knit without patterns. I always make my own. The top down raggland is the next thing to learn.
thank you!
You are welcome 🌹
Thank you for this tutorial. I have been looking for such an explanation.
Could you explain how you determine back, front and sleeve count.
Hi, since I increase stitches evenly spaced, I stop increasing when I kind of get a circumference for sleeve (x2) + a circumference for body = circumference before you connect body, and knit sleeves separately... which should be somewhere around underarms (if needed you may knit few rows straight down without increasing to get to underarm area)... hope this helps
So happy to find your excellent tutorial!!!! It’s so easy when you understand the logic 🙏💕
I'm so glad Sarit - good luck 🍀💛
Thanks 4 sharing ❤️
Thanks for watching!
Gracias por el video! Estoy por empezar mi primer sweater "top down" y estaba asustada con las medidas. Tu explicación me quita el miedo, gracias :)
Gabriela - Estoy feliz de que mi video haya sido útil, espero que tu parte superior resulte perfecta. 🍀🍀
This was very helpful! Thank you. How do you know how many stitches to add in the armpits when connecting front to back?
Thanks!
It’s great. You are superb. Thank you 🙏
Great tutorial! Thank you
You're very welcome, Deb 🌹
Thank you
Excellent explanation! So clearly communicated with pictures. I am watching from India. Your accent is very clear. Can you please let me know from which country you belong . Thank you.
NC
Thank you🌸, I live in America
Thank you for video, nice explained. 🌹🌹
Thank you so much! Excellent tutorial.
Great tutorial!
Glad you think so, Wanda 🌹
Very well explained, thank you so much!!
Glad you enjoyed it, Claudia 🌸
You are a genius
Thank you for sharing your knowledge. It s help me a lot.
You are very welcome Agnes 🌸🌹
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! IT WAS VERY USEFULL!
thank you so much for the tutorial, every other pattern, they just told me to make it on my intuition XD they never provided what i should base my sweater on, which was furstrating :b now i know what ill be doing, your video is very educational and i appreciate it a lot ^^
Thank you 🍀🍀🍀
Amazing tutorial.
Pls upload a tutorial for hw to make a blouse.
Tks
Thanks so much!
Silvana, you bet! Enjoy! 🍀
Thank you sooooo much!!
Thank you so much! Could I use this formula for both knit and crochet?
Yes you can, cream peonies... do a test swatch with the stitch pattern you would like to use, so you can count stitches and rows and then apply numbers to calculate... although you need to take into consideration that stitch and rows measurements are different from knitting - so you for example in knitting you would have to add stitches every other row, but in crochet you may have to add stitches every row if the stitch is very long.... 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀
@@HandMadeRukodelky I'm a relatively new knitter who crossed over from the crochet world...looking to develop more intricate skills led me to subscribe to your channel, among other's. I've come to really enjoy your style of teaching, you explain the why, which lends my mind freedom to create. Thank you🥰❣be well
thank you!!!!! 💛💛💛💛💛
👍👍😍😍thanks!..💚
You're welcome 😊 MsBabybewar18 🌸
A lot of thanks for your efforts.:D
Thank you Mindy🌹🌹
Great tutorial! What is your preferred stitch to do the increases?
Lisa, it Depends - if I don't want to see stitches too much then below the stitch, if I want it as a "design" then YO (lacy method) - these are two of my examples...
Very very useful information. I do not knit bit I do crochet. Thanks a lot. I would also like to know, if you don't have the subject to actually measure, how would you design a sweater in different sizes? Craft yarn council don't have all the measurements.
Hi Rashami - great question.. I usually design either size small (for my child), or medium (for myself), or for a 3 months old child (I have a doll) or for an American Girl Doll (I also have a doll) --- I try to design with measurements in mind, or I take an outfit and as I knit I compare if it fits over the item... If I knit a stitch pattern I chose it according to how many stitches I have on my needles and how many repeats would fit in there. It's all math. Occasionally I have to rip it and redo it so it fits the measurements. I do not do patterns to fit other sizes because it is a lot of work and it would take me away from my other projects. Resizing is a math process - how many stitches and rows fit into an inch or a centimeter. And what stitch pattern will fit in them. 🍀🍀🍀
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Could you also explain how you get the number of stiches to add for the armpits? I would appreciate that very much.
Lieve, I usually add 2+ stitches - depending on how many I need for the pattern (that I would be knitting on the body part, and or sleeves), and/or depending how many stitches I may need for sleeves/body part if knitting a simple top/sweater.... 🍀
Good explanation Like it 😀
Thank you Naheed 🌹
thank you very much! Well explained :)
You are very welcome Kass 🍀
Thank you!
I appreciate the hard work you did !! 👏🏻👏🏻
You don’t mention short rows, do you use an alternative method?
Hi Lucia - great question 🌸 - No, I never did that method... yet 🙂
Can you do calculations for crochet?
I wish you could show me how to calculate if I want to add a lacy stitch on the Yoke area.
Hi Alison, I wish I could too 💛 - I am working on several gifts now, so all my videotaping is put on back burner... sigh - I should do it in the future when I am not pressed for time, but I may forget, I need people remind me their requests 😕
Also, how do you account for “ease” in the measurements? Thank you.
Hi, My sweaters usually get enough ease with regular knitting... if you knit tight, you may need to add some ease to it... if you knit loose, you may have to be careful with adding stitches, unless you like roomy sweaters... 🍀
Thank you very much for your tutorial .Now I have the tools to start a sweater from measurement.Just a little question: How about ease. How much should I calculate?
Hi Pippi - I prefer my sweaters/blouses roomier, even wider than needed (=oversized) so you will have to figure out how much ease you want and integrate it into your math - not sure how much you would calculate. You need to keep in mind also how the yarn "stretches" after you hand wash it (= what type of yarn it is, does it hold the shape? or does it loosen up after washing?) I hope this helps 🍀🍀🍀
How should we
Calculate stitches for back and front and
Sleeves.
For 284 stitches.
Hi
U hv explained so nicely.. but hw to increase sts in lace pattern... I hv started
Yoke sweater for my daughter with all over lace pattern but very confused hw to increase sts.... Cn u pls help me
Hii Gogi - that is another beast and would take a lot of explanation, but I would suggest using lace patterns, that would repeat only every few rows, then knit regular rows and in those rows increase as many stitches as you would use in multiples of your lacy pattern 🍀
Hello. Can this be used for crochet as well?
Yes, I use this math technique for crochet also. You just need to do calculations per crochet stitches 🍀
🌹❤️🥰
Would this be the same for crotchet work?
I would use this for crochet - but the number stitches and length of each row would depend on the type of stitch pattern
Show me how to increas
Hi, you can increase in different ways - depending on what look of your increases you want on your knitted fabric - 1. you can do yarn over (YO), 2. you can knit one stitch below the stitch you will be knitting next (K1B), 3. you can knit one through the back loop and then immediately through the front loop of the same stitch (KBF) - good luck 🍀
🙁 I’m still stuck on row 1! My gauge is the same as yours so I have 100 sts cast on. But I need to increase my first row by 14 stitches to get to a total of 210 stitches within 3 inches because I have 42 inches around my shoulders.. can anyone help me?
Hi Mrs Wray - how many rows in 3 inches?
My gauge is 20sts x 26 rows for four inches. So I believe its 20 rows for 3inches
First do your ribbing=edge with no increases (4 rows would be sufficient); then you have 16 more rows left to spread 110 stitches over it (210-100=110)... If you increase every other row that will be 110 sts over 8 rows then.... 110/8= 13.75 sts - which means aprox 13-14 sts each row... so I think I would do Row 5 - 10 increases: (knit 10, increase 1 - repeat 10x), Row 6 just knit 110 sts... then you have 7 more rows to increase another 100 sts - Row 7 - I would increase by 11 sts = (K10, incr 1) - 11x (= you will still have to increase y 89 sts over 6 rows) - you should have now 121 sts, Row 8 - K121; Row 9 - increase by 11 sts = (k11, incr) - 11x; Row 10 - K132: now we can accelerate more stitches in each round = Row 11 - we have 132 sts = increase every 10 sts (k10, incr) - 13x, you will have 2 sts left - just knit them and no increase... 132+13= 145 sts in Row 12 (K145) - at this point, you still need to increase 65 sts over 4 rows (every other row = Row 13, 15, 17, 19)
Can you figure out how you would like to continue in those next sts? Do the math - it will be good practice for you - and let me know....
Thank you!
this is what I came up with for the remainder…
Row 13: *(k 10,inc) 14 times 159sts
Row 14: knit 159 stitches
Row 15: *(k 10, inc)* 15 times 174sts
Row 16: knit 174 stitches
Row 17: *( k 10, inc)* 17 times 191 stitches
Row 18: knit 191 stitches
Row 19: *(k10, inc) 19 times 210 stitches
Diky🎉
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😢very very complicated.
Sorry, too complicated for me 😢