Basics of Drop Shoulder Sweaters // Technique Tuesday
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- This video explains the basics of what a drop shoulder style sweater is: what defines the style, the options for construction, the advantages and disadvantages of this type of sweater, the typical proportions, and resources for finding patterns of this style and resources for learning to design your own.
This is the second video in a series.
First video, Intro to sweater styles: • Intro to Sweater Style...
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PATTERN RESOURCES
Ravelry advanced search for drop shoulder sweaters shown in the video (you can modify it to suit yourself): ravel.me/g4wtaa
DESIGN RESOURCES
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The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns by Ann Budd amzn.to/3ayBWTf
Vogue Knitting Ultimate Knitting Book amzn.to/3yZEIds
Sweater Design in Plain English, Second Edition by Maggi Righetti This may be out of print, but used copies are available amzn.to/3uDu7m7
Knitting in the Old Way by Priscilla Gibson-Roberts and Deborah Robson
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If you have questions about this video, or suggestions for future videos, please let me know down in the comments or on social media.
0:00 Introduction
1:11 What defines this style?
2:25 Construction methods
6:55 Advantages & Disadvantages
8:18 Proportions
13:07 Resources - patterns
15:51 Resources - designing your own
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Couldn’t be better timing for me too! Do you realise how encouraging and practical you are? Thank you Roxanne!
Isn’t she great!
As a ‘math averse’ knitter that is recently passionately determined to learn to knit her own sweater I need to thank you for this AWESOME video. I have been watching YT videos for a year for knitting sweaters and your visuals really hit home for me and I so very much appreciated it. THANK YOU!
Thank you so much for your very easy to understand instruction. I am looking forward to the rest of the videos. This is exactly what I have been looking for for many years.
I have learned more in this tutorial than any video I've watched. I can't thank you enough for starting this series!
❤ not sure how it took me so long to find this brilliant lady's videos. You are brilliant.
Roxanne you are truly a gift to the knitting community. Thank you for this series!
I’m trying to copycat a drop shoulder sweater that I bought on sale and absolutely fell in love with. I’ve only ever knitted top-down raglan and cable yoke sweaters, so I instantly knew I’d be looking up alternative sweater constructions, hoping your channel would pop up. You didn’t disappoint!! Thank you, Roxanne 🙌🏼🎉
This is a lovely series, I will follow it with much attention. I am particularly interested in best fits for different body shapes.
I am loving this series.
Fantastic video Roxanne! You explain everything so clearly. I’m really looking forward to this series! Thanks for another amazing video!💕
Perfect timing! I’m knitting my first drop shoulder sweater now. Thanks Rox!!!!!!!
Book references and how to use Ravelry are just of invaluable help - thank you SO much
Roxanne, this was just GREAT. I bought an inexpensive pattern from "Mary Maxim" and I realized it was different from any sweater I had knit in the past. Thanks to this video, I know now it's a drop shoulder pattern. I am not busty and am quite narrow/slim, so I think this style will be OK on me. I am currently trying to gauge whether the sleeves are long enough, as it seems some of the body width will cover the top of my shoulders. I will try the measuring technique you showed - measuring from wrist to wrist and see how that compares with sweater. I have not yet sewn in the sleeves and pattern schematic does not show me any "marks" where they should go. It just says to fold sleeve in half and pin a fold to each shoulder seam. I think it's quite an attractive pattern. It's called Mary Maxim CABLED RAGG PULLOVER PATTERN. Again, thank you for your expertise.
I would divide the stitch count at the top of the sleeve by the gauge, to determine its width. Let's say you have a stitch gauge of 5 sts/in and you have 90 sts, then that's 18'' across, so half of that would be 9''. Use your row gauge to calculate the number of rows in 9'' and mark the location on the front and back.
I've just come across your channel and I can't thank you enough for your content! I learned to knit in January of this year and after the usual simple scarf and fingerless mitts stuff, have knitted one yoke sweater and tried my hand at simple colour work. Your channel is going to extend my skills and lift my technical ability. Thank you so, so much! 💓
Thank you for the video and thanks for organizing your channel the way that you do. I remembered this series and figured I could get to it via your collection of sweater techniques. It was fairly easy to find.
Fascinating video, and I always wondered what the shoulder shaping in some drop shoulder patterns was all about, so thank you. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series!
Thanks for the raverly search tip. I have never used the attributes feature. I love raglans so this will help. The skinny arms type was the first on your search and immediately the same pattern I thought of.
Perfect timing! I have a dropped shoulder design ready to go as soon as something else comes off the needle. The body/sleeve math is tremendously useful, especially with those designs that call for 10" of ease. I'm always left wondering why so much ease. Now I know! Thank you.
That 🐞 sweater and buttons, oh my! 😊
Thank you, Roxanne, for this (and other podcasts) drop sleeve/shoulder sweater design. I found the proportions very useful. So happy to have found you. You encourage me to "keep at it" as well as recommending books/authors.
Fabulous tutorial! Looking forward to the next one in the series. Thanks very much!
💟 Thank you so very much for this series.
This is incredible! Thank you so much for these detailed technique videos. This sweater series is helping me understand what I'm doing as I learn how to knit sweaters.
This is the TH-cam channel I've been dreaming of. So glad I've found you. ☺️
Extremely useful and detailed instructions
Wonderful series. Thanks. I've been struggling to get beyond the basic raglan and this is perfect. Did I say thanks?....thanks.
I appreciate the way you showed how to hunt for a sweater on Ravelry. Thx.
Great episode!
Thank you for this. Now I know how to get the correct sleeve length. I’ve been getting them too long
Cool books! Thanks for sharing!
This is so helpful. I love your videos. Thanks❤️
Thank you!
My first sweater was knit flat side-to-side because it's the only way that 100% made sense in my head. My experienced knitter partner thought i had lost my mind but the effect is super cool...and it made sense to me!
There's a baby/toddler bolero pattern on Ravelry constructed this way. It has afterthought sleeves!
Wow the extra resources at the end were a very nice bonus! I have one of the books, but don't feel that comfortable with its format/info. So seeing the other books was really interesting.
Can you do a video on steeking sweaters knitting in round please
excellent video as always! this caught my eye because I'm working on a drop shoulder cardi right now - modified w/ sloped shoulders and an added a triangular sleeve cap to eliminate some of the excess fabric in the shoulder and underarm because I'm making a very stiff fabric in Whelk st - will see how that works out!
Thanks for this. I have a favorite drop-shoulder sweater that I want to replicate (a little bit of reverse engineering there) but I wasn't sure how to proceed. You've given some great tips and explanations. Great video!
Thank you Roxanne for this very helpful talk. I am currently knitting a cardigan of my own design using "The Sweater Workshop" by Jacqueline Fee and your tutorials. I shared with my sister my project, and she was encouraged to look into using a design book for herself. I really appreciate you sharing all the. different resources out there. I love how you explain these different sweater types and break it down into basics terms.
I just discovered I have misplaced a cardigan pattern I am part way through and so I have been looking for something to explain how to draft the rest and this is so clear gives me some courage to think I can do it.
Thank you so much! This is fabulous information I really appreciate it.
This is great thank you!
Great video thanks 🙏
I never thought to just make a square sweater like your sample for the kids' dolls and bears...even thought I know this was instructional for a full size garment lol.
Thanks a lot!
Thank you. That was amazing. 🇬🇧
Guuurrrll I love your videos. I am an experienced knitter and can follow a pattern very easily. However, it is great to actually get the knowledge of how the sweaters are constructed . Therefore I can use this knowledge to customise a weather that is more fitted.
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I'm loving this series and the little models! I've been trying to design a sweater to knit with some homespun, and I love the look of those 40's sweaters with the little poof on the shoulders, but my gauge is so far off of those patterns that I'm not managing to adapt them. I think you're supposed to make the sleeve cap bigger than the spot you're putting it in, but I haven't figured out how much yet.
As a new knitter, I don't know what am I doing. Thanks for your video, i know how to knit with my yarn ànd my mesurment
Excellent and interesting video as always, thank you!! I would be interested in seeing how you attach the sleeves, please!
I have a video on seaming horizontal edges to vertical edges here: th-cam.com/video/TYfCQmsb1iM/w-d-xo.html
So excited for this sweater series! I have been hoping you would do something like this ever since I found your hat construction video oh so long ago. I learned so much from that video, and was able to expand on that knowledge to making other kinds of hats like cabled hats and colorwork hats. Looking forward to doing the same thing with sweaters. Thanks so much Rox!!!
Hi Roxanne, you are an amazingly gifted teacher and communicator. I enjoy your workshops and have learned a lot since I discovered your channel, thank you. I now want to knit without looking at my work, can you help me? I’ll be happy to buy you a coffee and make one for myself at home! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, this means a lot to me!
I made a sleeve round but separate Jodie. Still I can seam sleeve to the body?
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Thank you so much for this series. Question on drop shoulder sweaters. If I knit in the round from bottom up to where you split for sleeves, do I then need to knit back and forth on the front only? Do I move the back stitches onto waste yarn to hold them? I’m planning to try the ‘My Fall Sweater’ by Siv Kristen Olson and the instructions aren’t clear to me. But I suspect it’s nothing complex so trying to find other examples of how you knit one in the round. I really enjoy your channel - very informative!
There are two possibilities. One is that you knit the front and back separately (and once you get to the neck, you'll probably split the front in order to shape each shoulder) OR you knit the entire thing as a tube up to the shoulders, and then cut steeks to form the armhole and neck. The second choice is a common one for some knitting traditions that are based in stranded colorwork, but modern knitters will sometimes choose to use that technique for all sorts of sweaters, in order to maintain the ability to knit in the round the entire time. If it's still not clear, I would suggest contacting the designer for clarification.
Thank you this video is so helpful, I'm just been making one and it's fit is out. Do you have a list of the books you have spoken about that one can buy. I could not see the books clearly. Thank you again.
There are links in the video description to various resources mentioned in the video.
Do you have a video on armhole shaping for beginner sweater knitters??
Have you seen Jacqueline Fee's book The Sweater Workshop? It was revolutionary to me!
Picking up stitches in a garter stitch cardigan, with end of rows have bobbles on last stitch
Is this a question? A video suggestion? I do have a video on picking up sts along a garter stitch edge. th-cam.com/video/_BLbZcb0ZSs/w-d-xo.html
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Thank you so so much for your instructive videos! I am planning to try my hand at a drop shoulder sweater and scratching my head about some aspects of its construction. This is one of Sandnes's Marius designs with colorwork in the sleeves and upper half of the body. It says to bind off several of the center front stitches to start shaping the neck, and I was not sure if it was silently implied that the rest of the colorwork in the body needed to be knitted flat. The armholes are steeked, so I would imagine that the body would continue to be knit in the round; otherwise, what would be the advantage of the steek? It says to complete the round after the neck shaping bindoffs and then cut the yarn (?), to begin again at the neck (?), and to bind of a few stitches at the beginning of each row on both sides (?). The final instruction for the body is to just "bind off." Wouldn't that result in basically a tube? Is it implied that I should sew together the top of this tube? I struggle to make heads or tails of these instructions. Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you so much again!
I'm always happy to answer project questions like this in my Ravelry group, where others can learn from the question and answers as well as offer their suggestions. You can find a link in the video description (scroll down). Once you're in the group, click on Start a Topic, and ask your question there.
@@RoxanneRichardson Amazing, thank you so much! I'll copy paste it there if that's okay!
this is such a useful video, thank you!! have you read the Principles of Knitting? I picked it up at a thrift store and its a really great deepdive into literally every aspect of knitting, and has helped me alot. Its over 500 pages and functions almost like a textbook
Yes, I have the second edition, which came out 10 or 12 years ago. The original edition had long been out of print, so I was really happy to get my hands on the new edition!
Oh the tiny sweaters!
hola está muy bonito, se puede mostrar el sweter wntwro, gracias y podría poner las guardas , muchas gracias!!!
Do you have a pattern to the mini sweater design demo? Doing mini version of patterns would really help to understand how to do sweater construction techniques and better understand the pattern.
I don't have a pattern. I basically used the measurements from full-size schematics, multiplied by my fingering weight gauge, and then divided by 4 to get the 1/4-scale stitch counts. While it was fairly quick (and useful) to demonstrate on small-scale sweaters, I think it's better to learn about sweater construction on a baby sweater using worsted weight yarn. Knitting a 1/4-scale sleeve on tiny needles with fingering weight yarn was a real pain in the rear!
I love your T-Shirt. I use that phrase often. LOL I need to get one! Where did you find it?
I got it years ago, from a marketplace vendor at our guild's annual conference.
Do you have a technique for sweaters for a very large bust my daughter wants me to knit her a sweater that is shaped to her as she has never found one to fit correctly she is size 12 but has a K cup size (seems to be a family curse) hope you can help thank you
I'm working on my first sweater. It is crocheted in 3 pieces. Lots of fun. I noticed that some people have a bulge in their homemade knitted sweaters between the neck and the breast. How do you smooth it out to lay flat? do you have a measurement of some sort? do most sweaters have decreases from the breast to the neck? how do you figure the amount of the decrease if you find the pattern doesn't quite work it right?
The bulge you are seeing likely occurs on particular sweater styles (yoke or raglan), where the designer has failed to add shaping to raise the back of the neck/lower the front of the neck.
@@RoxanneRichardson Thank you so much!
Is a drop shoulder with a short row sleeve a good idea?
Probably not (if by "short row sleeve," you mean a top down set-in sleeve where the sleeve cap is formed with short rows). The shoulders of a drop shoulder sweater are wide, because there are no armhole bind offs or decreases to narrow the upper bodice. that means the edges of the sweater shoulders hang over the shoulders of the person wearing the sweater, and that extra fabric serves as the sleeve cap. I knit a sweater from the 1890s that was a drop shoulder construction, and it did have short row shaping for sleeve caps (in addition to some other weird construction elements). I knit it to see if it could possibly work. It didn't work well. :-)
Where are the links which Roxanne tells us about accessing various parts of her videos? In this and other videos, although she's made a chart with arrows pointing, I've never been able to locate the chapter headings. anywhere.
Looks like I forgot to paste them into the video description! It's fixed now.
you can also scroll over the red progress bar at the bottom of the video to see the different 'chapters'
Hello I just finished a bottom up sweater. I think it is drop shoulder. I attached the back and front using a 3 needle bind off. Also the neckline is ribbed with short rows identical on the back and front. The neckline is like a boat but too close to my neck. Do you have any tips on preventing this. I don’t understand why most patterns have the front and back worked the same.
The nature of a boat neck is that it is straight across, with the front and back knit identically. The front and back are shaped differently when the neck is a crew neck, v-neck, scoop, etc. When searching for sweater pattern (on, say, Ravelry), select the type of neckline you would like as part of your search, so that you can avoid a boat neck.
@@RoxanneRichardson Bummer I really like the look of boat neck 😁. Blocking my sweater made the chocking feeling decrease though..
@@annmariebusu9924 What is it that you like about the look? How wide the neck opening is? Or that it sits horizontally? There might be a way to modify the fit so that the back of the neck is raised or the front is lowered, while still keeping the neck wide, and *appearing* to be straight across. The reality is that the base of your neck in the front is several inches lower than the base of your neck at the back, so anything that is shaped identically on the front and back is going to have an issue, unless the opening is really wide, and the front can sag from the effect of gravity.
@@RoxanneRichardson I will bear that in mind for next time and thank you for the notes. I have gotten a lot of compliments on my boat neck sweater 😊. Blocking really saved the day.
I liked the info on the sweater styles. But I found I lost concentration when you added research and design tips. too much in one short tutorial.