Choosing a Sweater Design

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Before committing to a sweater style, read the Interweave article: Six Armholes and How to Make them Work for Your Body

Improvise a Top-down Sweater

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On Ravelry, Karen Templer shares tips on how to improvise a Top-down Sweater -  a top-down tutorial in action. She explains the top-down method as she knits a simple raglan pullover to her own specifications, without a pattern, so you’ll know how to do it too.

How to improvise a top-down sweater:
— Part 1: Casting on and marking raglans
— Part 2: Raglans and neck shaping
— Part 3: Finishing the neck and yoke
— Part 4: Separating the sleeves and body
— Part 5: The art of sweater shaping
— Prologue: The possibilities are endless

Bonus: you can save this "pattern" in your Ravelry library for future reference

Fixing a Sweater's Fit

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Kristen (Cozy Things) knit a sweater that she loved, but it was too slouchy for her to love and wear. Finally, she decided to fix the sweater or to get rid of it. (We've all been there, right?)

Kristen decided to fix the sweater and grabbed her scissors. . .  It was a scary but successful operation.

Read about her ingenious solution here

Felting Sweaters

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Yesterday's post used felted sweaters to make cozy mittens.

Felting old sweaters for the mittens is easy and explained on this Stumbles and Stitches Felt Week post.

Go through the closet or storage bins and find sweaters (past their prime) to felt and let your imagination and creativity loose.