If you have no experience shaping a knitted garment, please view An Introduction to Shaping first.

The video below shows the steps for decreasing and binding off a plain jersey front at the armhole and v-neckline. If knitting a front with miss stitches (as in the downloadable sample), be sure to continue with the second video.

Notes

Before compiling

• If you are centering your knitting on the machine bed, be sure to add the Center on bed layer after adding the Waste + cast on.
• In Settings check that Compiler Options are correct. I'm using a carrier spacing of 4 and stopping distance of 7.5.
• If you have loaded a text file created in DesignaKnit, be sure to delete (or make invisible) the Canvas layer before compiling.
• Read more about working in these areas in Mastering the bind-off: essential tips on the Kniterate blog.

The back

• Using the shape text file for the back, follow the same steps as you did for the front of the sample sweater. Or if you are attaching a collar, you can knit a straight neckline and omit the neckline curve.

Alternative V-Neck

The tutorials above use the macros in the design app. My preferred v-neck has crossed stitches at the center and decreases with a margin of 3. This requires additional work in a Free Edit layer.

The alt v-neck is on the left. It has crossed stitches at the center and decreases 3 stitches in, edited in a Free Edit layer. The Layers > Interleave command was used for knitting with separate feeders on the left and right sides of the v.

Decreases for v-neck on the right were not edited. The "Is Simple" decrease option was used in the Neckline Shaping layer.

Reference Files

Downloadable design app files for the sample front, back, sleeve, and collar are found on this page.

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