What is raglan construction?

A ‘raglan’ is a shoulder construction where the sleeves come all the way up to the neck. For a raglan to fit correctly, you would typically increase/decrease on each side of the body (and at the front and back) and on each side of the sleeve on every right-side row or every other round if working in the round.

What is a top-down raglan?

Essentially in a raglan, you are working increases gradually and throughout the whole yoke. For a top-down yoke sweater, you are knitting increases only in about 4 rows of the total sweater, but doing a lot of rows without increases.

What is a top-down Raglan?

A top-down raglan can eliminate all these problems, due to the shape of its sleeves and the way it’s constructed. By definition, a raglan garment’s sleeves continue all the way up to the neck, creating a diagonal line from the neckline to the underarm.

What is a Raglan?

A ‘raglan’ is a shoulder construction where the sleeves come all the way up to the neck. For a raglan to fit correctly, you would typically increase/decrease on each side of the body (and at the front and back) and on each side of the sleeve on every right-side row or every other round if working in the round.

Can you knit Raglan from the top down?

By definition, a raglan garment’s sleeves continue all the way up to the neck, creating a diagonal line from the neckline to the underarm. When you crochet or knit from the top down, you can make a faux seam with stitch increases. No seaming problems. No additional bulk around the shoulders.

Are Raglan seams increases or decreases?

If you are knitting from the top down the raglan seams are all increases, but if you were knitting bottom-up, they would be decreases. When you are creating your raglan seam, you can use any type of increase that you wish. The most basic would be a kfb (knit into the front and back of the stitch).