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Monday, September 20, 2010

Knitting Update: Experimenting with decreasing stitches

This is my new ‘office-lunch-hour project’. What you see here is an experiment of how to decrease stitches. After making that blunder with my home project, I’m treating this as a practice exercise of how to increase and decrease stitches. I’m also curious how necklines are knitted on a sweater. I wanted to see if it’s possible to invent my own pattern for designing a sweater.

First I started out by casting on 30 stitches in a row. Then I decreased a stitch on every alternate row. I got a slope at the edge like below. Tomorrow I will try decreasing 2 stitches on every alternate row to see if I get a rounder slope. To be continued...