Bond Machine Knitting - Full Fashion Decreases
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
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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."
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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."
Author : Steph Thornton.
Last modified on : 7th October 1998.
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