Saturday, December 9, 2006

A shapely Enid, anyone?

Has anyone else considered adding some waist shaping to lovely Enid? I think this is a sweater that requires a wee bit of positive ease, and for a lot of us gals, ease in the bust means a baggy and less-than-flattering waist if there's no shaping involved. I'm definitely thinking of doing a little nipping in around the sides for the waist and I'm considering some bust line darts. Let me know if you're thinking the same so we can talk some strategy on this mod.

4 comments:

hesira said...

I probably need a little room in the chest as well, but I'm not confident enough in my improvisational skills to change the pattern to work for the lower parts. I'd be interested in what you come up with. As it is, I'm thinking of going with the 38 1/4" pattern to accomodate my curves. I know that will make it baggy on the bottom. Like I said, I'm open for suggestions.

Cirilia said...

I'm up for that. i was just going to gently decrease and then increase out again, probably by about an inch and with an inch of plain knitting between the decrease/increases.

I think bust darts would be much nicer looking, and since I'm already learning lots of new skills for this one, I'm all for it.

Susan said...

I'm game for some modification, too! No idea how to make bust darts, but I'll give it a try if we come up with a way.

Amanda said...

I've been doing a little researching on bust darts and I think this is going to come down to a consideration on how a dart will effect the yoke work. Looks like we can go about this two ways: vertically or horizontally. Vertical darts are what I initially had in mind and I've worked these on sweaters in the past - pretty easy and effective. Horizontal darts are accomplished with short rows, but I'm afraid that this would get too tricky with the colorwork....

Anyway, there is an excellent article in a past issue of knitty about adding bust shaping and I've got a Maggie Righetti book on the way from Amazon. I will definitely keep you posted on my discoveries and plans!