The Twisted Sisters Knit Sweaters

A step-by-step workshop that teaches any knitter to easily adapt sweater patterns to her own measurements and chosen yarn.

Yearning to use your handspun yarn in commercial knitting patterns? Need to resize a sweater pattern because it doesn’t fit? Say hello to The Twisted Sisters Knit Sweaters, a step-by-step workshop that teaches any knitter to easily adapt sweater patterns to her own measurements and chosen yarn. The Twisted Sisters, a group of women in Oregon and Tennessee who delight in dyeing, spinning, knitting, and crocheting, illustrate how to adapt the same basic sweater pattern to many different styles, and introduce the elements of sweater design through increasingly challenging projects. These 10 projects, from sweaters, coats, and vests to pullovers and jackets, give the knitter confidence to alter commercially available patterns to their needs, even when they aren’t offered in their size. Learn to change yarns, proportions, neckline styles, sleeve length, color and stitch patterns, add collars and edgings, and much more. Full of schematics, illustrations, and beautiful photography, this book will change the way you look at knitting sweaters!

The Knitter Fitter system of Fitter List plus Sweater Map allow you to adapt the same basic sweater to many different styles and sizes Using your own measurements you'll make sweaters that fit your particular size and shape Learn to construct sweaters from the bottom up (or top down) or from side to side, or combine directions, learn how to make successful variations to necklines, sleeves and shoulders, and how to add color and stitch patterns, collars and edging