Shaping the Armhole and V-Neckline with Jersey Decreases in the Kniterate Design App
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 (or add Center on bed earlier in the command stack).
- In Settings check that Compiler Options are correct. I'm using a carrier spacing of 4 and stopping distance of 7.5, which worked best for the interleaving.
- If you have loaded a text file created in DesignaKnit, be sure the Canvas layer is hidden or deleted before compiling.
- Read more about binding off in Mastering the bind-off: essential tips on the Kniterate blog.
Shaping 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.