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July 27, 2015 3 min read
We had our first Custom Fit Workshop this past Sunday afternoon. Ginni and Mary and I are all very excited about the Custom Fit program. I love Amy Herzog's modern classic designs and her straightforward approach to getting a great fit. Sunday was our first Custom Fit workshop, and we spent the afternoon looking at our silhouette, thinking about our style preferences and getting the measurements needed for a one of Amy's Custom Fit patterns. Of course I hope everyone chooses to knit one of Amy's sweaters, because I think they're beautiful, but if not, there was still great value in yesterday's workshop.
The measurements we took are key in getting any pattern to fit perfectly. In these workshops you discover the numbers that reflect what I call decision points in a sweater pattern. It's fairly easy to get a particular body measurement, but it's more challenging to know how to translate that into a number of inches at a particular point in your sweater. For instance, it's one thing to measure your armhole, but it's quite another to know how deep you like your sweater armhole to be. It's a subtle but very distinct difference. The same with sleeve lengths. If you don't know how deep you want your sweater's armhole, you won't know where to begin your sleeve length measurement, and your sleeve may be too long or too short. Likewise the waist to armhole length and so on. These are crucial measurements for good sweater fit, and they're all tied up together. When you have your measurements and you know your fit preferences, you can compare those measurements to the schematic of any sweater pattern and adjust accordingly.
The biggest and most valuable takeaway from yesterday's session, was, of course, this set of measurements. With this information you can turn almost any sweater into a custom design perfect for you. We've been doing it for 10 years in our Fit and Finish classes. So, why I'm so jazzed about the Custom Fit program if you can do the same thing in a Fit and Finish class? I'm glad you asked! Actually, there are four reasons:
Could you do this yourself any or all of these adjustments yourself? Of course. I've done it, and I've taught classes on how to do it. But it's fiddly. Not everything needs to be sized up the same amount. The whole process takes a considerable amount of time and a certain amount of knowhow, and unless math is your thing, it's not that much fun. All those calculations are just in the way of what we love most about knitting - the knitting.
If you missed Sunday's Custom Fit workshop, it's not too late get in on the program. We have another workshop Sunday, August 16th, and another one Sunday, September 20th. Sign up todayand get ready to knit sweaters you absolutely love!
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