Basics of Shaped Necklines - design and modification // Technique Tuesday

This video explains the concepts behind how shaped necks are designed and calculated. A basic crew neck is used as an example. These concepts can be used to plan modifications to a published sweater pattern or when designing your own sweater. Support me by buying me a coffee on Ko-fi! https://www.ko-fi.com/roxannerichardson My knitting designs: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/roxanne-richardson Ravelry project pages for the various sweaters shown in this video: Brown Aran sweater (my own design, there is no pattern): https://ravel.me/Rox/za Green U-neck sweater (my own design, there is no pattern): https://ravel.me/Rox/rs Scoop neck cardigan (Stripes Gone Crazy): https://ravel.me/Rox/sgc Pink yoke cardigan (Dahlia): https://ravel.me/Rox/lds KNITTERS GRAPH PAPER There are lots of free graph paper PDFs out there. The one I used for this video can be found here: https://tricksyknitter.com/blogs/learn-to-knit/knitting-graph-paper If you want to generate graph paper that matches your actual stitch gauge, this one is nice (it's meant for A4 paper, so exact size may be a bit off if you print to 8.5x11'' paper): http://tata-tatao.to/knit/matrix/e-index.html If you have questions about this video, or suggestions for future videos, please let me know down in the comments or on social media. 0:00 Introduction 0:36 Shaped Neck Overview 0:57 Basic Shaped Neck - Crew Neck 3:19 Crew Neck - Example Calculations 7:29 Making Adjustments - customizing the shape 11:20 Neckline - Real