Quick, I’m at work and very far away from any Elizabeth Zimmerman help — I need percentages, and I can’t remember…..
What percentage of number of total body stitches do I need to:
1 – have around the top of the sleeve at widest point before I join to body to make raglan?
2 – place on stitch holders for underarms?
Anyone? Dude, thanks!
Hi Rachel-
For the top of the sleeve, just before joining the body to knit the yoke–33% of total body stitches.
for the underarms–8% of total body stitches.
Hope that helps!
Holy crap! I was just reading some comments on one of the other posts and I realized that I misspelled your name, Rachael, I am so sorry.
Yay! thanks!!!
To answer the 2nd question, for raglan style, you put 8% of sts. each side for underarm on holders, and matching on the sleeve.
They have a later variant for the yoke sweater that has you do 40% of sts. on sleeve, with adjustments to the decreases, but I would question with a raglan if that would give you too long a distance between underarm and neck edge. Note the Zimmermanns/ Swansens are a tall, thin group of people and their designs work well for their body types.
Probably more than you wanted to know…..