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Honestly, the more I knit top-down the more in love I get. Latest happiness-inducing thing about top-down knitted tops? Using a Turkish cast-on for under the arms as it provides the extra stitches for the sleeves at the same time, meaning I don't have to pick up stitches and get a really smooth fabric under the arms.

Basically top-down tops is the best and I never want to go back.

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Modern Top-Down Knitting by Kristina McGowan

This book sports a long subtitle: Sweaters, Dresses, Skirts, & Accessories Inspired by the Techniques of Barbara G. Walker. Walker is famous for a number of knitting publications in the 1970s including treasuries of stitch patterns and a book explaining how and why to knit from the top down. The why includes the ability to try on a garment as it is made to see if it fits and to avoid the too long sleeve or the too long bodice or skirt. By sewing circularly, from the top-down seams are largely eliminated and even set-in sleeves can be picked up and knitted from the top down. I was always struck by how early knitting books sometimes only show garments that must be pieced together even when it hardly seems necessary.

McGowan struck up a correspondence with Walker and then a friendship and wrote her book borrowing techniques but also making up her own, especially using elastic cord and pre-made lace for finishing treatments. The result is a set of modern patterns that many young women will enjoy.

You see here in red the Soho Smocked Dress which uses smocking in order to mark and shape the waistline, the grey Suspension Dress, a lovely evening number, and the Feather Dress in beige with an empire waistline pulled tight to the body with a bit of interior elastic. I have always been puzzled by the making of skirts from the bottom up as it seemed to me to risk both the wrong length and the wrong waist size, so I also appreciated the Chrysler Skirt.

You will be able to find new and used copies of this volume on the web as well as a second one she did.

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Concept 02-00a Sweater III - Maiami pattern via Katia Garne

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my latest knitting, oversized cardigan - Ravelry pattern: FRIDA - Top Down Oversize Cardigan

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my new design - Gramina shawl - Ravelry (March 8th) - Wir stricken Brioche! KAL (German Facebook group)

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It's that time of the year again... Time to knit a sweater. Lot of techniques here - top-down, fair isle, magic loop. Let's play!

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WITHOUT A NET I’ve finished the no-pattern/no-gauge pullover I started the last week of September, at the beach: It’s a short but not cropped front-pocket raglan pullover, knit in rustic New England style two ply Aran weight wool.

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