Retroknit Design

In the previous installment of the Knitting Vintage tutorial series, we finished our musings on the mechanics of altering patterns to fit with a treatise on necklines, shoulders and armscyes. Today,  in our penultimate post in the series, it’s time to look at perhaps the most important aspect of converting vintage patterns for modern use: [...]

Folks, the last two installments of the Knitting Vintage series are being pushed forward a day or two. Next Thursday, August 13, I’ll be posting about how to successfully substitute for vintage yarns. Then on Monday, August 17, I’ll wrap up the Knitting Vintage series with a post on copyright and vintage patterns.

My apologies [...]

In the last several installments of the Knitting Vintage series, we altered the length and width of our original pattern for a modern fit. Today, as we wrap up our discussion of the mechanics of pattern alteration, we’ll look at how to make alterations to the shoulders, neck, and/or armscye to compensate for the changes [...]

In our last installment, we talked about making alterations to the overall length and width in vintage patterns.  But what if you need more length or width in one place than you do in another?  Today, we’ll explore the possibility of using darts,  which distribute fabric just where it is needed in order to fit [...]

Thanks for your patience with this installment of Knitting Vintage! Hopefully it’s worth the wait – without further ado, here it is:

Knitting Vintage Part Six: The Mechanics of Altering A Pattern to Fit: Adding & Subtracting Length & Width

If you’ve been following along to this point, you’ve developed a schematic of the original garment in [...]

First, hats off to the awesome blogs that have hosted me all this month on my whirlwind blog tour. This week, there’s more fun to be had – with a post from the amazing Heather Ross today, followed by a book review & show and tell at The House on Hill Road on Wednesday, and [...]

Before we get started, I’d like to give a tip of the hat to Alison at the Blue Blog, who will be doing a review of Vintage Baby Knits today. And I’d also like to thank Grumperina for her lovely report on some of the garments for the book, which I was lucky enough [...]

As a quick note, my blog tour continues this week with a stop on Tuesday at the lovely Grumperina’s blog, then continues with a Thursday review over at the Blue Blog and a Friday Q & A with Handmade News. Additionally, there’s a new stop on the tour – on the 23rd, I’ll be talking [...]