Casting on stitches for a sweater is no joke—you're committing, at least in the moment, to knit many, many stitches in an effort to make your own clothes. Go you! But many sweater patterns, especially bottom-up sweater knitting patterns, such as Jhumpa (shown above), require you to cast on a good deal of stitches at… Continue reading How to Knit a Sweater from the Bottom Up: Cast on Large Number of Stitches

Following up to my previous post about how to prepare your sweater knitting pattern before the Lopi Sweater knit-along, I wanted to share three tips for those of us larger ladies. These tips will work for almost ANY bottom up seamless yoke sweater, whether it's got colorwork or textured stitches or whatever. Everything here is… Continue reading How to Knit a Sweater from the Bottom Up: Adding Larger Sizes

I love Lopi sweaters, but as you might have noticed in my last post, I especially love Lopi cardigans. If I am being very honest I don't wear my Weatherman pullover as much as I wish I did because if I am being very very honest—I don't think that yoked sweaters suit me. I am… Continue reading Sweater Modification: Pullover or Cardigan

As part of our Lopi Sweater Knit-along (KAL for short), we're going to be walking you through how to knit a seamless sweater from the bottom up. This construction is very frequently found in a variety of Lopi Sweater knitting patterns, or knitting patterns with a stranded colorwork yoke, and is pretty easy to customize… Continue reading How to Knit a Sweater from the Bottom-Up: Getting Ready