Side To Side Sweater

But you can also work top down beginning at the neckline and ending at the hem.

Side to side sweater.

Knitting a sweater from side to side is a great way to ensure that patterns flow seamlessly from the sleeve to the body or to make vertical stripes without having to use intarsia or stranded knitting. After the body is finished sleeves are picked up and knit to length. Most crochet sweaters are worked from the bottom up beginning at the hem and ending at the shoulder. See more ideas about sweaters knitting knitting patterns.

Colourwork fabrics knit with floats or strands of yarn on the backside like fair isle give horizontal stability to the knit fabric. But these sweaters present some different types of challenges from bottom up or top down sweaters. Therefore a stockinette fabric worked in a side to side sweater will stretch more than in a bottom up garment. This sweater is very easy to get to fit and it can be made as a pullover or a cardigan.

Beginner to intermediate this is a very interesting sweater that starts at one side and is then knit to the other. Stranding yarns work well in side to side garments with the pattern running vertically.