How to Knit a Top Down Raglan Sweater in ANY Needle Size + Yarn Weight
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My Fall Bluff top-down raglan sweater tutorial and knitting pattern is one of my most popular.....everyone loves how simple the sweater is to knit, especially for beginner knitters. However, the biggest question I get asked is how to modify the pattern to knit it with a different yarn weight and needle size. So many of you have a ton of worsted or DK weight yarn and you want to figure out how to knit the sweater (which I knit with 9mm and super bulky weight yarn) in a different gauge. Have no fear--I'm going to teach you how to convert the pattern and figure out how many stitches to cast on!
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Hey. Engineering student here. The math you did works, but it can be made much simpler than that. You just take the new gauge and divide it by old gauge. So here 16 divided by 10 is 1.6 - then you just simply multiply any stiches values from the original pattern by that ratio and you're good. 56 stiches for collar will be 56*1.6=89.6; 20 stiches for front and back will be 20*1.6=32; 8 stiches for sleeve will be 8*1.6=12.8 etc. Great work anyway, I've orered yarn and needles and cannot wait to try out some of your patters :)
Wow! This is much simpler - thank you for replying with it. If I was just trying to do the math on my own, I would probably do it the way she did, not realizing a simpler method exists. Weird how people's brain see math so differently😄
Thank You! This combined with Ashley makes it understandable. Ashley gave the background which is needed to really understand and you simplified it!
Thanks so much
Thank you , this is easier to understand. I'm not a math wizard or an engineer!
I feel like there are downsides to this math method, but what are they?
Perfect combination of science and common sense. You took pi and multiplied it with your gut feeling/expertise. Just as it ought to be.
Good people do exists...thanks for your kindness to share 😊
You have literally saved my life with this video! I was throwing my knitting on the floor trying to cast on for an aran weight sweater with DK yarn! I hate maths and I'm crap at it but this is so easy to follow!! Thank you so much Ashley!!
I really appreciate your putting the math out there for us. I've been knitting for 47 years and this is the first time I've had a formula to go by. Every other time I "flew by the seat of my pants". Usually having to take it out and try again multiple times. Thank you
HOLY COW, WHERE HAS THIS VIDEO BEEN..... After looking at this video, I feel confident to finally create my first sweater. Thank you so much for taking the time to make such a wonderful tutorial. 🥰
Oh you are so sweet - thank so much! Really appreciate it ❤️
the video we all needed. who said math wouldn't be useful in the future... I can understand this better than my chemistry and biostatistics lectures combined. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS GEM!!!!😄😄😄
Great stuff !! - LOVE this because Downunder we can rarely lay our hands on the yarns used by you Americans ! Thusly, to be able to make a pattern we like in a completely different yarn - and possibly needle-size - is WUNDERBAR !!
You rock, Ashley ! - thanks a million, mate ! :D
I was googling how to adjust patterns so that I can try your Winter Bluff pattern with a specific yarn, only to find that YOU made this amazing and helpful video to begin with! Thank you, awesome stuff!
Thank you! I'm not a bulky sweater kinda girl but want to make this pattern (first sweater attempt). Now I can. So glad I discovered your channel.
You are so welcome! Wonderful!
Hi. Did you make this sweater with cotton yarn? If so, would you mind sharing the yarn and needle size you used. Thanks.
Seems like this method would work for crochet as well? You have just opened up a whole new world for many of us!!
Yes! I think it could apply to crochet as well - same concept, right?!
Thank you for sharing the math and the worksheet with us all!! I'm excited to try your pattern1!
Oh My Stars, for your soothing and supportive ways, I am grateful. Thanks be for inspiring me.
Oh thank you so much! Hope it’s helpful!!
THIS IS AWESOME!!! IT IS LIKE THE GOSPEL! OMG! thank you sooooooooo soooooooo much! this is what I have been struggling for! you are an angel!!!
Haha! You’re too kind - thanks for the kind words!!
I am so very pleased with the results of this sweater! It was my first raglan attempt. I've heard that raglans "don't fit" but this was not the case with this pattern. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Great job! Yay! so glad to hear....
Thank you for your help!!!! Now I can design all the sweaters with my stash for all my 12 siblings and their teenage children!!! You are a lifesaver for a forever knitter.
oh wow, thank you SO MUCH for this. The converter is everything and you explain it all so well. I changed the INCH to CM (as I don't understand inches hahaha) and it seems to be working perfectly, you're the best!
Yes! So glad you changed it - shouldn’t matter if it’s in or cm!
Totally agree, super helpfull!! 🤩
Wow! I can't believe it ! You woke up my teenage brain from Math class! Thank-you so much!
Haha! Love it…. Thanks for the support!!
Wow this is amazing! I thought I was just going to have to play around with the number of stitches I cast on, and hope for the best. I've never knit anything other than scarves. I had no idea how much work it took to convert from one yarn weight to another. Bless your heart
This helped me sooo much! I also bought your Gauge Converter Tool as well, and I love it! Thank you! Thank you!♥️
Thank you so much for sharing all these nice knitting tutorials. ❤🙏
You r awsome... Loads of love for you❤❤❤❤❤ ❤❤this video really helped me....and made my work easiest.........
you are Godsend, Thank you so much, I really wanted to do your Open Trails Sweater vest but didn't have the right yarn Size you used. I'm so glad that I can still do it. 🥰
Thanks so much!!
Where have you been all my life? You have every single resource I could possibly ever need. I have some Lion Brand touch of alpaca that I was going to crochet into a sweater but knitting just looks better in my opinion. I'm relatively new to knitting and you made the show easy for me.
Ha! Love it!! So glad you found me too! Happy knitting!
Thank you so much for this video. I never knew this in all my years of knitting.
Hope it helps! Happy knitting!!
Thank you for the converter! It gives me greater confidence adjusting patterns.
Oh good - so glad. Happy knitting!!
Your sweater pattern is fabulous, and works out great without short rows which is wonderful for a beginner. Takes a while as it is a sweater but I love the raglan sleeves. Thank you.
Thank you soooo much, I’ve wanted to know how to do this for a very long time. I’m going to have a very busy weekend working out old patterns to new yarn weights. The spreadsheet is going to be a complete game changer. Thank you again for for generosity 🧶💜
So happy to hear! Thanks for the kind words!!
Got it! Now I won't struggle nearly as much with all the math necessary for converting patterns to exactly the yarn and needles that I want to use. Priceless!
Brilliant! May God bless you for this. You are a star!!!
Absolutely loved your explanation thank you. I am so happy to have found you ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Oh thank you so much!
This is such a great video! This is the knowledge I needed! And the comments are very great as wel, I love the knitting youtube community.
I'm gonna search for a very nice yarn, but I'm not gonna think about the weight, because with this video I think it will work. I'm dreaming about knitting a simple raglan sweater and have my best friend embroider some really nice flowers on it. But I struggled to find a plain pattern that will work great for this idea.
so incredibly nice of you! i've just gone to your website, and pinned a bunch. thanks!
Oh yay!! Thank you!!
Thank you! What an incredible gift - all the time you took. Wow 🤩
Oh thank you so much - hope it’s helpful!
This is amazing. Thank you so much! This is where i always got stuck because i didn’t know how to choose the right CO using the yarn and needles I have. This will definitely help a lot going forward ❤️
Best of luck! Glad it helped!
Thank you so much for this video. I feel as though I could change a pattern without too much difficulty. You did a great job explaining the math and the converter is fabulous.
Oh great - hope it’s helpful :)
Who knew this could be so easy!! This is fantastic!!
Thanks so much!!
This is incredibly helpful thank you! I'm not keen on bulky sweaters- this feels really liberating!! 😁 xx
Oh I’m so glad it’s helpful! Happy knitting 🧶 ❤️
I have been looking for this forever. THANK YOU!
Yay! So glad 😊
Very helpful thank you! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!
Anytime! Happy to help. Happy Knitting!!
This is great. You could skip calculating the length since the original and gauges are both relative to 4 in.
So if you need 56 stitch CO for a 10 stitch gauge then you'd need to cast on x stitches for a 16 stitch gauge:
56/10 = x/16
Multiply 16 to both sides to isolate x
x = (56)(16)/10 = 89,6
Thank you for this!
A big thanks from my heart! This is so helpful. 😍😊 And also thanks for the cast on calculator and the knitting pattern 👍😊
Thank you! Hope you enjoy!!
That was exceptional and so helpful! I have a lot of yarn purchased years ago, but nothing matches the yarn and needles in the patterns I look at, so I give up. Now I have a chance of figuring it out. Thank you.
Oh yay! Love to hear this!!
Thank you Ashely! This so super helpful. I would like to experiment with different yarn types where I can do a light cotton summer sweater using your pattern. 🥰. Thanks again! What a priceless video!
Yes! That would be fun…. If you try, let me know how it goes! ❤️
Hi. Did you knit this sweater using cotton yarn? If so, would you mind sharing the brand of yarn and needle size you used? Thanks.
Thanks so much for sharing, I’m excited to use this method for a super chunky jumper using up spare balls of wool. So it will be multi coloured mish mash of yarns and colours.
Very Educative Tutorial !
I truly value your inputs.
Thank You Very Much ❤️
You’re so welcome! Enjoy and happy knitting!!
Thank you so much for all of your help! I learn so much from you and I appreciate all the time and effort you put into this. I love knitting your patterns.
this is extremely useful - AMAZING - thank you so much- already made one of your cardigan, this sweater was next , then I've just seen this converting/explaining video - perfect, it's gonna be so easy to use different yarns and have fantastic results
Oh I’m so glad it was helpful!! Yay! Thanks for the kind words ☺️
@@ildikovarga847 it can be any number you plug in for the gauge! That’s just an example…
You can download it and change it back if you’d like!
Thank you! Now I can bust down my stash faster by using my other yarns!
Yes yes!! So happy to hear!!
Many thanks!! Going to try this for the loom - wish me luck!
Thank you, very helpful even I don't knit but I will use this for crochet 🥰
Yes! Works just as easily for crochet too!
Thank you for the Google Sheet spreadsheet. I'm going to try to do it with sock yarn with a gauge of 27 sts = 4".===>>> So, Using US-3 wood needle, I got a total of 151.6 stitches, new front/back is 54 sts a new sleeve is 21.6, so I went with 22sts on sleeve and 54 on front/back = 152 sts. I love spreadsheets. I'm normally an Excel spreadsheet person, but I've used Google Sheets many times. WooHoo!!! 😊
Thanks very much, this was very interesting. I always wondered how to do this. Cheers Mary
Oh thanks! Hope it was helpful :). Cheers!
Thank you so much, I'm new to garment knitting and this is a wonderful tool to have.
Glad it was helpful!
I'm glad this is a video bc I'm not going to remember this
This is such a thoughtfully made video. I cant wait to follow along with this pattern!!
Thank you soooooo much!
I really needed this video the whole time I've started knitting.💙
Yay! Glad I could help!
Hands down.. Thank you. I took notes on the pattern and ready to go!
Excellent information. I can now use the yarn that I have in my stash. Thank you so much.
This was wonderfully explained. Thank you so much. Have been wanting to knit a sweater and now I believe I could
wondaful job calculating. Thank you
No problem- hope it helps!! ☺️
Thank you SO much for taking the time to do this. It is MUCH appreciated!!✌️
oh good.... My pleasure! Thanks!
What an amazing gift! Thank you for this explanation AND the CO converter! I am excited to try this out.....and will be subscribing as well.
Hope you were able to access the doc okay.... and hope it's helpful!!
Thanks again for all your help. I am excited to try it out!
Thank you so much! You are so generous!
My pleasure.... hope it helps!! Happy Knitting!!
🥴 I’m lost 😅
Thank you, thank you. That explains so much. 😀
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thank you si much for the Tutorial! I just have a little bit of a problem understanding the sleeve to the front-back ratio, because the specifications on the pattern for the raglan cardigan indicate two front parts and my calculations turned out crazy. Hope you can help me :)
Hi there -- when you make a cardigan, you divide the front stitches by two because you have two front panels. However, if you're making a v-neck cardigan it's very different because you make increases in the front so you start with 1 or 2 stitches on each front and increase to your desired width. I hope that helps!
Wow 😍😍 much needed, thank you ❤️
Oh thank you!! Happy knitting!!
Love this, thank you svm for sharing. This is totally awesome 🤩. Hope you have an amazing weekend! 💚🤗
Thanks so much!! You too!!
Thank you so much
Wow great that help a lot with a new yarn. Thanks so much🥰
SUPER helpful!!!
Yay! I’m so glad 🥰
You are precious! Thanks a lot.
Oh thank you! Happy to do it!
This is SUPER helpful!!
So glad!! ❤️
@@AshleyLillisKnits thank you for taking the time to explain in all your videos! Wished I found you sooner.
Great content, so helpful. Many thanks
Glad you think so!
That is explained so well! Thank you very much! Now i only need to know how much yarn i need according to the new measurament. I always have trouble buy the amount of yarn for my project. I-m still too novice! :)
Yes, there are calculators out there that you can Google to help you figure out how much yarn you need based on the sweater size!
Hi, this is amazing.... Thx so much!🙏🙏
Hi there! The pattern is on the page - just enter your email in the pink box and the page will redirect to the pattern pdf. All of my patterns are available on my website at ashleylillis.com!
This is great information!! Thank you❤️ I was wondering in your next video would you be able to do something around adding in wrap and turns to the sweater? I find it hard to be able to modify any patterns with adding in W&T. Thanks
Check out my video on German short rows for neckline shaping! th-cam.com/video/qv0C86p9mxw/w-d-xo.html
Thank youuu so much~ This is so helpful for me 😊👍
I’m so glad it helps! Happy knitting!
Thank you a million for Teaching us how to do this . This was the Best I’ve seen . You got me on the 28 -8 thing but once I figured out to divide the 8 into the 28 then times the 46 I got it . I’m old so it takes a while .lol Thanks again you are the best . Now with that said please do one one the chart Please . I downloaded the doc. Sheets chart . Then I was lost . So I made a spreadsheet Will it didn’t add the figures. So my options where spreadsheets or choose a template. And I didn’t see a template so that didn’t help . And mine on my iPad didn’t have the file edit and all at the top like yours did . So I’m guessing I wasn’t doing something right .
This tutorial is brilliant, so glad I found it! I have just one question: how to understand, with a different yarn and so gauge, how many raglan increases we need to do? Is it enough to try on the sweater to check if the armhole is big enough?
Hi there - you can determine if the sweater is big enough by figuring out how many stitches you need for a specific bust circumference. So one you have your new gauge, and want a 42in bust, for example, you just need to determine how many stitches that is. Then you’ll need to split that between the front, back and underarm cast on stitches.
Thank youuu... This tutorial is very helpful ❤️
Thanks a lot. Really helped
I’m so glad!! ☺️
This is by far one of the best tutorials on conversion! Thank you for this. You have really made this easy to understand 🥰🥰
One question- is there a formula to figure out the amount of rows to make the desired length?
Thank you 😊
Oh thank you so much! Just measure your garment to get to your desired length. Since everyone knits differently, I always just use length in my patterns instead of just rounds or rows 👍🏻
@@AshleyLillisKnits Thank you so much! I just subscribed to your channel you have so many great videos. I’m looking forward to watching more of your projects! Thanks for sharing your love of knitting with us knitters ✨💖
@@havannamaria thank you very much for the support! Keep me posted on your projects!
@@AshleyLillisKnits I will 🥰🧶
Thank you!
Thank you very much!
Thank you for the instructions. They were very helpful. Just one thing I have to mention that you may not be aware of …after most of your sentences in your instructions you say ok. Watch back your video and you’ll see what I am talking about. You don’t need to say ok after every sentence 😂. We get it because your instructions are very good. You explain the instructions very well so you don’t need to say ok after every sentence 😊 this isn’t a hater comment I have a family member do the same thing and it’s like nails on a chalkboard others may not notice including the speaker😂.
We all have things to work on…. I did my best!
You’re awesome!! Thx so much❤
Omg thank you xx
beside the cast on and raglan set up when using different yarn and needle do i! follow the rest of your pattern on increases and all
You’ll need to knit tithe body and sleeve width that will fit you! You might need to do more or less increases depending on your gauge!
Unbelievable!! Thank you!!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thank you..
My pleasure!!
Thank you for this! I love it and will be super helpful for my knitting life. I have a doubt, I'm knitting this sweater with very thin yarn and already made my calculations for the cast on and the raglan divisions, but should I do the same for the rest of the pattern? For example where you begin the raglan increases and add 8 stitches, should I do the math to add the number of stitches that your 8 stitches measure? Or should I just stick to the 8? Same goes for the decreases further ahead.
Hi! When you do raglan increase rounds, you’ll always add add stitches no matter what gauge you’re in. You’ll just end up doing many more increase rounds to get to the same circumference and armhole depth!
You explained that so well! It worked great for me. How do you keep track of the new increases since they won't correspond with the original pattern? Thanks so much for your hard work!
Oh so glad! You can calculate how wide the bust will be - check out my reel that explains! instagram.com/reel/CWG7zuip2fX/
Love this ! Quick question : I can’t figure out the raglan stitches for your cardigan v neck pattern : could you give the exemple of what the new stitch ratio would be (following the exemple in the video) ? Thanks a lot 🙏
If you download the Google spreadsheet that’s linked in the video description and plug in all the numbers it calculates everything for you!
❤️❤️❤️🌺Really love it.
Thank you!! ❤️
Thank you!!!!!
Thank you so much!!
My pleasure! Hope it helps!
Wow, does this work for cardigans, as well? Many Thanks! ❤️
Yes! Should work for cardigans, you’ll just need to divide up the front stitches!
Tysm ⚘