Author Topic: How do you lengthen a jumper? (Read 21992 times)

Bionic · « **Reply #15 on:** October 18, 2012, 10:16:52 am »

See what you are missing Rosemary?

Blackbird · « **Reply #16 on:** October 18, 2012, 11:44:46 am »

Ahat ! Not just me then! I've just finished the back of a jumper knitted with local Jacob Sheep wool and it is way too short! I knitted it bottom to top, with a lovely band of Fair Isle just above the rib so don't want to unravel from the bottom. I don't want to cut it as I may be a bit short of wool now I know it's too long, so will unravel from the top to where the shaping for the sleeves starts and knit another 3 inches. Really annoying as I'm such a slow knotter it's taken ages!

PS: What is a Kitchener graft?

Fleecewife · « **Reply #17 on:** October 18, 2012, 11:56:31 am »

Hi Blackbird - I'm glad it's not just me

Kitchener grafting is a way of joining two bits of stocking stitch or plain knitting together invisibly. You thread a double point needle through each stitch of the two bits to be joined, then link them by mimicking another row of work, using a wool darning needle. It is usually used for the toes of socks, or for under the arms in a circular knitted garment. Kitchener stitch can also be used to add coloured decoration on top of existing stocking stitch. I can give you instructions if you want to have a go.......

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #18 on:** October 18, 2012, 12:03:54 pm »

Quote from: Fleecewife on October 18, 2012, 11:56:31 am

I can give you instructions if you want to have a go.......

Hi FW

I know what it is, and have diagrams, and understand the theory - but somehow it never quite goes the same in real life...

Any tips for the cack-handed?

Fleecewife · « **Reply #19 on:** October 18, 2012, 12:16:42 pm »

I'll show you Sally

It's basically straightforward but I do have a problem with the last stitch on each needle though - what does everyone do with those? Ah, I think I might just have worked it out in my head but will have to try it in practice

I have a wonderful circular knitting book (no - the book is rectangular as usual) which is sadly out of print, which gives instructions for eegits (which is how I can do it

) but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to reproduce it here. Can I?

SallyintNorth · « **Reply #20 on:** October 18, 2012, 12:59:16 pm »

Quote from: Fleecewife on October 18, 2012, 12:16:42 pm

I have a wonderful circular knitting book (no - the book is rectangular as usual) which is sadly out of print, which gives instructions for eegits (which is how I can do it ) but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to reproduce it here. Can I?

I don't know about reproducing it online, we'll have to wait for Dan to pronouce - but you could maybe email me a screenshot?

Pretty please?

Fleecewife · « **Reply #21 on:** October 18, 2012, 03:25:53 pm »

I'll get OH to scan it Sally

Lesley Silvester · « **Reply #22 on:** October 18, 2012, 10:53:23 pm »

Quote from: Blackbird on October 18, 2012, 11:44:46 am

Ahat ! Not just me then! I've just finished the back of a jumper knitted with local Jacob Sheep wool and it is way too short! I knitted it bottom to top, with a lovely band of Fair Isle just above the rib so don't want to unravel from the bottom. I don't want to cut it as I may be a bit short of wool now I know it's too long, so will unravel from the top to where the shaping for the sleeves starts and knit another 3 inches. Really annoying as I'm such a slow knotter it's taken ages!

PS: What is a Kitchener graft?

If you have a couple of rows of stocking stitch between the rib and the fair isle, just cut it there and add some more rows downwards. Your fair isle will then be slightly higher up the jumper.

With stocking stitch, the stitches look the same whichever way you knit them, up or down, so it doesn't show where you've joined. You could always use a different colour or put in a few rows of a pattern in the extra rows.