knitting sleeves

[mrsbrown]

 I'm knitting a jumper and I have to design the sleeve (unless recipient decides she wants a vest instead, her latest fancy)

Anyway, I collected some links.

Handy guide to writing an excel spreadsheet to work out the sleeve pattern 

I haven't looked hard enough at the spreadsheet to see if this might be a more straightforward way to do the sleeve pattern calcs.  

Or I could avoid the entire issue and use this calculator instead.

Comments

[alexbayleaf]

Huh. I always decrease every 5th round for a standard jumper with fairly fitted sleeves, or every 6th for a looser sleeve, and it seems to work fine. I think I picked that up from Elizabeth Zimmermann. (YMMV for weird yarns, complex stitch patterns, etc.)

[mrsbrown]

1 st at each end of every 6th row 2 times (12 rows = 4sts)

1 st at each end of every 7th row 24 times (168 rows = 48sts)


Total stitches increased/decreased = 52

Stitches increased/decreased each side = 26

Total rows knitted = 180