Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 11:05:30 -0500 From: "Jimmy L. Simmons"Subject: Re: [BOND] Full Fashion Decreases I don't know about a "reversed full fashion decrease", You may be thinking about which way you want the stitches to lean as viewed from the right (front) side of your garment. For example, if you are using the three-prong transfer tool; the first way would be to simply move the outside three stitches in one stitch. This would cause the stitches of your garment to lean towards the outside of your garment. The other way is to move the 4th stitch over to the 3rd stitch, leaving the 4th stitch empty. Then take the three outside stitches and move them in one stitch. This places two stitches on the empty needle, but now the stitches are leaning toward the center of your garment. The important thing to remember is to be consistent. If you use one method on the right-hand side and the other method on the left-hand side...it will be noticeable and different, to say the least. Jimmy Simmons orion@datasync.com Gautier, Mississippi http://www2.datasync.com/orion ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:03:51 -0700 From: "Lila M. Jones" Subject: [BOND] Raglan Sleeves I love raglan sleeves. Anyway, I like the patterning you can do with them, especially with a plain yarn sweater. I have a booklet by Alles Hutchinson that I purchased from Lea-Ann eons ago titled "Full Fashion, Decorative and Accented Raglan Seams." I just looked through it and couldn't find "reverse full fashion decrease" instructions, but did find the following in addition to the regular full fashion decreases: Hidden or tucked under decrease, plume decrease, French raglan, raglan slant stitch, draw stitch decrease, cable decrease, cable trim decrease, and then there are all the variations of the upside down raglans or knit from the shoulder down so the "decreases" are increases. At the very end, there are instructions for a basic short row shaped raglan sweater, short row eyelet raglan and Harry's short row raglan. If you like raglan sleeves, this is the neatest booklet. Lila Jones in Sunnyvale, CA lmjones@gte.net "You know when you've been drinking way to much coffee when you just completed another sweater and you don't know how to knit." ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:45:46 -0700 From: "Lila M. Jones" Subject: Re: [BOND] Full Fashion Decreases Donna, the decrease stitches must all slant the same way and be the same number of rows apart. So they would look something like this: /:\ /:\ /:\ with the colon representing the edge(seam) between sleeve and body. The slashes represent the decrease stitch(s). So if you move your decrease stitch from #2 needle from the edge to #3 needle from the edge, it would look like this: x/xxxxxxxxxx\x on both the front back and each sleeve after each decrease row. You can also move #3 to #4, then move #1 and #2 over with your two-prong tool. That would look something like this: xx/xxxxxxxxxx\xx after each decrease row. Just keep the decreases at least one stitch from the edge for ease in seaming. Lila Jones in Sunnyvale, CA lmjones@gte.net "You're from California when you drive to your neighborhood blockparty."
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