Back in high school (or was it early college?), I owned a cardigan with a two-way zipper, and spent some time experimenting to see which closure method suited me best. Keeping the top zipped and the bottom open was… well, not that method. In fact, it was horribly, horribly unflattering.
This still holds true today. I’m slightly bigger all around than I was as a teen, but my general shape hasn’t changed. So, what do I do when I see cute top-closure sweaters? Avoid them altogether?
Hah! Why would I do that when I could add buttons all the way down, or change the pattern to a bottom-closing one instead?
This is Amelia, by Laura Chau. Sort of. I say sort of because I’m actually just using the stitch patterns and making a sweater with actual waist shaping. I’m also knitting it in pieces, because if Peregrine taught me anything, it’s that I don’t actually like working sweaters in the round.
I’m also changing the raglan shaping and doing set-in sleeves instead, because I don’t think raglan shaping works for my body if I use my preferred amount of ease in the bust. I mean, Roam fits okay, but that sweater ended up with way more ease than I intended. And all of my most comfortable store-bought items with raglan shaping are also oversized in the bust. Set-in shaping, on the other hand, has been working pretty well for me so far.
Let’s see how this goes!
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