Seamless Knitting
"Because piecing is painful!"
You can learn to knit by knitting beautiful, well fitted sweaters and fun hats.
You will improve your knitting skills and succeed at every level.Start with the simplest pattern if you are a beginning knitter.
Choose a pattern suitable for your level of experience is you have knitted before.
Little Socks and Hats are a great way to learn new ways and styles of knitting.
You will knit our sweaters in one piece from the top down. Choose yoke, raglan, cap sleeves, or saddle shoulder.Every pattern is marked with a step level like this: Step 1 to show how easy it is to knit.
"A custom fit is easier than you
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Knitting Patterns for Sweaters
Will the sleeves you knit fit the body of your sweater perfectly?
Are your seams a little wobbly?
You want to enjoy knitting! You do not want to worry about poorly fitting parts.
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Click to go to circular yoke style sweaters.
Circular Yoke Sweaters
What we think of as Scandinavian knitting, popularized in the 1950’s as "ski sweaters" can be knit from the bottom up, or from the top down. Thumb Knitting instructions start you at the neckband and bring you down. The neckband ribbing is finished, first thing, so you don’t have to go back later and pick up the neck stitches.
The easiest and most forgiving style, the simple circular yoke is recommended for the beginning sweater knitter. Click to go to circular yoke style sweaters.You should be familiar with the terms: cast on, bind off, knit, and purl.
Raglan Sweaters Click to go to raglan style sweaters.
A raglan sweater is probably the second easiest sweater you can knit. Beginning with the neckband, increases are made every other row (usually) to the fullest part of the chest. Most figure types look good in raglan sleeves. Aran sweaters, with their beautiful cabling are usually done in raglan. Our step by step knitting instructions let you begin very plain, then add cabling as you become more experienced.
Cap Sleeves Cap sleeves are what you most often see in patterns and off-the-rack. Contrary to present fashion trends, this style can be "fitted" AND comfortable without being oversized. You may feel that our seamless cap sleeve sweater patterns are more challenging than the circular yoke or raglan. Patterns coming soon.
Saddle Shoulders A saddle shoulder sweater is perhaps the most challenging pattern. You can knit the saddles seperately, then pick up the stitches, or…. You can knit this unique sweater truly in the round, in one piece, beginning at the neckband with our original design. Patterns coming soon.
Adult sizes are included in each style page. To see all our adult sweaters on one page
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Fun to knit, hats are a great way to get started with Fair Isle knitting......A hat is a small project...
it doesn't take much yarn.....Use it to learn new stitches using colors and cables....
Then put your new skills to work on a sweater!
Click here for baby and children's hats.
Click here for teen and adult hats.Little Socks
For your littlest guy. Knitting patterns sized for 3 months and six months. Perfect for cold little feet or stockings hung by the chimney with care (very easy for Santa to fill!). Click here to see all the Little Socks
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