While sorting through my stash, I've been playing around with ideas what to knit next winter. Although, truth be told, looking at our summer weather I should make me a cup of coffee and get comfortable on the couch with my knitting this very moment. Sigh... Summer already is so short, why does it have to rain all the time? More sighs...
But enough ranting, so there I was, considering ideas and I really think I should knit some more garments. I don't do that very often and I think what puts me off is not only the darn seaming when all pieces are done, but also that there's usually a bit of math to do. Even with a well written pattern and the same yarn used for the sample, I get myself into gauge issues and/or need to adjust the pattern to fit my long arms and what not.
So the idea to knit top down (with the option to try on the garment and decide then whether the length is right), sounded very appealing. And in addition someone did all the math for me and I can use any yarn I like? How was I supposed not to add a new book to my bookshelf...
Ann Budd's Top-Down Sweaters! Four basic sweater types are explained and a couple of patterns are given for each. They come in lots of sizes and for each all the numbers for different gauges are calculated. It doesn't get any better, even though at first sight it looks a bit intimidating, don't you think?
But once you understand how to work with all the table, it is easy-peasy. I already made a swatch for the sweater I want to knit (and if the weather doesn't change I might start it before the summer is over) and look forward to working with this book! This is such a useful resource, the perfect book to help realizing my own design ideas!
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