So you don't speak Russian? Neither do I, but you'll enjoy Anna's video where she's doing a sleeve cap and putting in wide full-fashioned decreases to very good effect:
http://www.art-machines.ru/2013/07/blog-post_5.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ArtMachines+%28Art+Machines%29
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I watched this demo. Very interesting. Can/will you put this into English words for us?
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Jim Vaughn
Nashville TN USA
Nope. I don't understand Russian.
ReplyDeleteI could help, I think...
ReplyDeleteAnna just posted a video by our quite famous Tatiana Kasablanka. Here is her Youtube channel -
http://www.youtube.com/user/Kasablanka777/videos
Tatiana graduated from college for machine knitters, has high qualification and long practice. In former USSR we used to have those colleges for undergraduates - sewing, knitting.. And she worked for a long time at the machine knitting factory/atelier. Russians like custom-made clothing, now even more.
Tatiana called it a Classical way of knitting the sleeve cap.
She charts customer's pattern every time she gets new order, makes swatches and all the calculations. They look like sewing patterns.
Anyway... a few words on the video.
After you make a body of a sleeve and casting-off stitches on both ends, use 5-prong transfer, decrease 2 sts on both sides, every 4th row.
Right now she is knitting for size 46 (94cm bust) and the cap is 15cm tall.
The fashion decreases are done before 14-16 rows till the end of the sleeve cap.
For the cap to form a rounded shape, she uses short row technique.
Cast-off loosely with 1 extra chain st between cast-off sts.
Then you need to steam it, forming a nice curve.
Here is Tatiana's work -
1 -https://picasaweb.google.com/112895274412003903413/2011
2 - https://picasaweb.google.com/112895274412003903413/2011
Hope this helps,
Iryna
I love her photos and videos. Thanks for the help with the Russian, Iryna!
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