Most of the crochet sweaters are made top down. It is also very fun to make a (private) Pinterest board where you can have all your sweater ideas in one place or make a collage with all your favorite stitches and sweaters! Sketching and making notes also gets your creative juices flowing. However, making a sketch of what you have in your head and making notes beside it, gets you up to a good starting point to work from. You might not eventually make what you had in your mind and change a lot along the way. The design process is an ever evolving one. Hem: no hem, wide hem, short hem, split hem (splits at the sides of the sweater).Neckline: wide, close fitted, turtleneck, lowered or raised (how deep your neckline will be), square, round, V-neck etc.Sleeve fit: wide, fitted, flared (from fitted to wide) etc.Sleeve length: Short, 3/4 th or long sleeve.Body: Oversized vs close fitted (and everything in between) cropped vs long.You need to decide how you want your sweater to fit and how you want it to look (more about shapes in part 3) Maybe you already have a general idea, but the devil is in the details as they say. When we have found our inspiration it’s time to make a few decisions for the design. But if you will just listen and really take notice of your surroundings, it will come to you effortlessly. Look actively for inspiration and you might not find it. Each of these little seeds could take root and grow into something beautiful your design. Beautiful passages in a book, gripping music in a movie. Feathery trees along the side of the road, thick clouds in the sky, moss on the forest floor, flowers in a big meadow. Look on Pinterest find a cute stitch, an interesting pattern, and suddenly a seed is planted in your head. That’s usually how my ‘inspiration-curve’ progresses. Now you will have this information beforehand and I hope it will be very useful to you. Needless to say, my process wasn’t as organized as this post is. Welcome to the first part of the crochet sweater design series! In this part we talk design, yarn options and gauge squares! When I started with my own design, I really did not know where to start and what information I needed to get started on the pattern. I’d love to see your yarn choices and design ideas! Do you have yarn picked out already in anticipation of these series? Maybe you already have a thousand design ideas floating in your head? Share your progress on social media with #ASOYcrochetsweater.
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