Mod your raglan - no math! (or with math) knitting modification

Quick and easy raglan sleeve modification for any pattern. No need to swim in your sleeves. Well, unless you want to.

€1 raglan calculator (requires excel, or google sheets, or openoffice, or libreoffice, or similar)

I'm wearing an (unfinished?) Gramps Revive cardigan by Isabell Kraemer in Holst Garn Coast

further reading on compound raglans :

00:00 - What's a raglan?
00:37 - What's a modified / compound raglan?
00:50 - sleeve angles demystefied
01:20 - How, no maths version
02:17 - How, math version
02:32 - €1 raglan mod calculator
03:03 - detailed maths walk-through
04:36 - Have you tried it?

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[brevon]

Hi Annie, thanks so much! What a nice treat for such a sweet price! I love using Sheets for all sorts of calculations, so happy I do not need to calculate this stuff though 😍
@everyone - As for the .ods format, what worked for me was to upload the file to Google Drive with Convert uploads ON (/drive/settings).

[OGJacey]

I know what to do, but you made this so much easier! Thank you and great price!

[aknitlife]

I just finished knitting a raglan where I had to frog one sleeve and the body because following the pattern resulted in a sweater that was too big and yarn chicken with a discontinued wool. The wool was merino yak that I bought when I didn’t know about stretchiness in merino.

Despite my luck of securing only one more skein of the wool online, I held it double and following the pattern will mean too big a sweater and not enough wool to finish.

I took off a few rows of raglan increases and size down a needle size. Did not knit as many rows for bottom and sleeves ribbing and was able to knit a sweater that had better fit.

I realized that holding two fingering together means I can’t follow the pattern’s raglan increases nor add positive ease because of merino’s stretchiness factor will yield a raglan too big to fit.

Thanks for sharing! I deviated winged the pattern to avoid having a sweater that too big to fit and have to frog the whole thing!

[dorcas]

How did you know that I was searching for modified raglan sweaters in Ravelry? While I love to crunch the numbers myself, I appreciate that others may not be so inclined. Thank you for your helpful info and humour.

[apezda]

Wonderful as always. I’m so glad you included the math. I’m not comfortable winging things. 😬

[hannahsida]

Great video! Why does no one out there share the shaping of the raglans and give you options as to putting less stitches in to the arms to begin with, maybe because you want a boatneck, and adding more increases to the sleeve later on to give a wider sleeve? Or discuss putting less stitches in to the body and adding more underarm…..You talk about this in a very easy to understand way. I’d love to see another video of this with knitted examples

[anitaherbertz]

OMG! I've been searching and searching to find a way to modify my yoke depth. I think this is it!

[sarawassell]

Thank you, I was thinking about this only yesterday! Now I have an idea of what to do, I just need to actually sit down and start my cardigan....

[kathymccann]

Seems like you would need to subtract the initial cast ons from number of total body and arm stitches to get correct number of increases needed in each section

[annh.]

Haven't tried yet, but it looks hopeful!

[justhearmeout]

I haven't tried it but I definitely bought it! I shall return once I'm brave enough to start stitching 😂

[paulahutchinson]

Thank you so much! Could you share the name of the sweater you showed 37 seconds into the video?

[AmberSoleil]

So helpful! Thank you! How awful would a raglan turn out if I did the regular every-other increase for body and arms and then stopped increasing the arms once they were right but kept increasing the body until it was right? 🤔

[ElisandeWalters]

will this also work if i need to add bust real estate?

[wendyw]

I have a bottom up raglan that I just know is going to fall off my shoulders if I finish it as instructed with a traditional raglan. Do I body only decreases every other row for a few rows, then both body and sleeve decreases for a few rows and finally sleeve only decreases to finish? And to make it even more fun, when do I do the short row shaping?

[alexandradegruyter]

Hi, I bought the raglan calculator but the download is empty, there is no excel or other sheet. Can you please help me? Thanks a lot

[misssimmi]

So how do you get the s shape? I'm confused 🧐