I’m doing research to find the “holy grail” of sweater patterns. I love love LOVE expensive yarn but have begun to get depressed when they don’t turn out to be a garment that I love to wear due to awkward fit. Just looking for classic good looking sweater pattern to show off my lovely yarn to full advantage and feel awesome wearing. A bad fit makes it look cheap and bad, even if it’s a $200 sweater! Thank you for an wonderful exploration into CocoKnit’s technique. Very thorough. Btw, I had a bunch of her sweater patterns in my Ravelry queue before realizing they were all the same designer! Lol
Hey, Linda, let’s chat. Sweaters that are fun to knit and fabulous to wear are my specialty. Email me at Welcome@crazyforeweyarns.com. Let’s talk about a perfect sweater for your beautiful yarn.
Thanks for this podcast. I am knitting Cocoknits Lizzie. I am having a hard time figuring out which edge is up on the collar, the slip stitch edge or the rolled edge. The slip stitch edge just doesn’t look very nice, but I think that is the right one. Hope I am wrong thanks so much. Julie’s video just doesn’t make it clear. Thanks so much!
So, it looks like the side with the slip stitch and the two stitches in reverse stockinette form the edge that is up while the straight stockinette edge is seamed. The bit of reverse stockinette forms a nice little rolled edge. I hear you about the slip stitch not looking as tidy as it might. End stitches tend to look a bit sloppy anyway, and more so when they’re then slipped on the next row. Maybe take a moment and practice making that last stitch (the one that will be slipped on the next row) a little tighter. To make the lady stitch tighter, only put the very top of your right needle into that stitch, and just barely wrap the yarn around the needle-only enough to catch and bring through-and pull that stitch tighter than normal. Then the lady stitch will be neater when you go to slip it. I do love Julie’s attention to detail on her edges, and the outcome is always worth the extra work to get them right. Let me know if that works for you 😀
@@CrazyForEwe thanks for your help. I. Understand the color and starting shoulders, but worry about shoulders fitting because I have big shoulders. I sure would rather frog now than later. Thanks so much.
@@CrazyForEwe thanks for your help. I. Understand the color and starting shoulders, but worry about shoulders fitting because I have big shoulders. I sure would rather frog now than later. Thanks so much.
@@sueaitkin8030 What you could do, is to start a larger size but not do all of the body increases. That way you would have a larger size in the shoulder area, but then not do so many increases for the body if you are more slender. Also Cocoknits sleeves tend to be narrow at the top. Are you comfortable working out what size things are going to be with your gauge a number of stitches? The chart should help you a lot with that
If you are making Emma, you don’t adapt the gauge. That’s my point. Emma is knit at a gauge of three stitches to the inch. If you want to use a finer yarn, and you don’t want an open fabric, choose a different pattern from the book
@@CrazyForEwe Yes that’s what I thought. This is my negative comment about that particular book as the patterns are in worsted yarns and not easily adaptable.
I’m doing research to find the “holy grail” of sweater patterns. I love love LOVE expensive yarn but have begun to get depressed when they don’t turn out to be a garment that I love to wear due to awkward fit.
Just looking for classic good looking sweater pattern to show off my lovely yarn to full advantage and feel awesome wearing. A bad fit makes it look cheap and bad, even if it’s a $200 sweater!
Thank you for an wonderful exploration into CocoKnit’s technique. Very thorough.
Btw, I had a bunch of her sweater patterns in my Ravelry queue before realizing they were all the same designer! Lol
Hey, Linda, let’s chat. Sweaters that are fun to knit and fabulous to wear are my specialty. Email me at Welcome@crazyforeweyarns.com. Let’s talk about a perfect sweater for your beautiful yarn.
Thanks for this podcast. I am knitting Cocoknits Lizzie. I am having a hard time figuring out which edge is up on the collar, the slip stitch edge or the rolled edge. The slip stitch edge just doesn’t look very nice, but I think that is the right one. Hope I am wrong thanks so much. Julie’s video just doesn’t make it clear. Thanks so much!
Hey! Thanks for reaching out. Let me take a look at the Lizzi pattern and get back to you.
So, it looks like the side with the slip stitch and the two stitches in reverse stockinette form the edge that is up while the straight stockinette edge is seamed. The bit of reverse stockinette forms a nice little rolled edge. I hear you about the slip stitch not looking as tidy as it might. End stitches tend to look a bit sloppy anyway, and more so when they’re then slipped on the next row. Maybe take a moment and practice making that last stitch (the one that will be slipped on the next row) a little tighter. To make the lady stitch tighter, only put the very top of your right needle into that stitch, and just barely wrap the yarn around the needle-only enough to catch and bring through-and pull that stitch tighter than normal. Then the lady stitch will be neater when you go to slip it. I do love Julie’s attention to detail on her edges, and the outcome is always worth the extra work to get them right.
Let me know if that works for you 😀
@@CrazyForEwe thanks for your help. I. Understand the color and starting shoulders, but worry about shoulders fitting because I have big shoulders. I sure would rather frog now than later. Thanks so much.
@@CrazyForEwe thanks for your help. I. Understand the color and starting shoulders, but worry about shoulders fitting because I have big shoulders. I sure would rather frog now than later. Thanks so much.
@@sueaitkin8030 What you could do, is to start a larger size but not do all of the body increases. That way you would have a larger size in the shoulder area, but then not do so many increases for the body if you are more slender. Also Cocoknits sleeves tend to be narrow at the top. Are you comfortable working out what size things are going to be with your gauge a number of stitches? The chart should help you a lot with that
Been wanting to do a coco knits project
You should! It’s super fun!
How do you adapt the gage for thinner yarn??
If you are making Emma, you don’t adapt the gauge. That’s my point. Emma is knit at a gauge of three stitches to the inch. If you want to use a finer yarn, and you don’t want an open fabric, choose a different pattern from the book
@@CrazyForEwe Yes that’s what I thought. This is my negative comment about that particular book as the patterns are in worsted yarns and not easily adaptable.
PLL
Yup! And PRL! Do you love Cocoknits?