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How to tie a raglan sleeve with your own hands

Very neatly look products hand-knitted, made without seams. Regardless of whether the model is made with knitting needles or crochets. Such a viscous solid canvas is called "raglan".

What is a raglan sleeve?

It is created by two symmetrical bevelled armholes, forming a truncated cone in the upper part of the product. Its top becomes the throat. Knitting the sleeves of raglan requires the master to be very careful. However, the product with such details has a more "professional" appearance. In addition, the sloping armholes provide greater freedom of movement.

Building a raglan sleeve is quite a complicated process. It requires an absolutely accurate calculation of the bevel lines. Sleeves should be similarly bound to the armholes on the main part of the product. Not every knitter will undertake such a complex technique. But if you calculate the loops correctly and follow the basic rules of knitting raglan, there will be no problems in the process of work.

What is a raglan line

Before you start directly the process of knitting, you need to understand what the raglan line is. These are the loops to which the napids adjoin on both sides. Due to the latter, the knitted fabric expands.

If you knit a raglan sleeve with knitting needles, there can be many options for an aesthetically pleasing raglan line. It can consist of a single loop, several (usually three) facial. Also for its creation, you can apply a volumetric pattern, for example, "flagellum" of four facial loops.

For inexperienced knitters, it is recommended to start with the simplest version - one of the wrong ones. Then it will be easier to calculate the loops, and in the process of work there will be no confusion.

We calculate loops for raglan

To quickly and without errors calculate the loop for raglan, you need:

  • Count the total number of loops in knitting and divide by three - for the front, back and sleeves;

  • Part for the sleeves divide by two, if the number of loops is odd, the remainders are added for the transfer;

  • When tying the line of regna, we take the loops from the sleeves.

This completes the calculation of the loops. Now you need to type them on knitting needles.

Where to start

If you knit the sleeve of a raglan with knitting needles, you can start work both from the bottom of the product and from above. Both methods will not bring difficulties with a certain skill.

The answer to the question of where to begin to knit a Raglan sleeve is better, is simple enough:

  • If the product will be worn by an adult, both methods will do.

  • If baby clothes are knit, it is preferable to start knitting from above. When the child grows, you can add the missing rows on the bottom and on the cuffs.

We knit a raglan with knitting needles from the neck

To begin with, we calculate the density of knitting. For this yarn harvested for the product, we collect twenty knitting loops on knitting needles and we knit a sample of a pattern 10 cm high. We measure its width in centimeters and the height in loops.

Then we measure the neck circumference (since knitting starts from the neck) and calculate how many loops you need to dial for the first row of the product.

We perform a set and proceed to knitting according to the following scheme: 1 air loop, 1 facial, 1 cape, 5 facial (sleeve), 1 cape, 1 purl (raglan line), 1 cape, 15 facial (back), 1 cap, 1 purl (Raglan line), 1 cape, 5 facial (sleeve), 1 cape, 1 purl (raglan line), 1 capitulum, 1 facial loop.

So we untying the first ten rows, while all the even rows are performed with the wrong loops. For nakids we use the inverted crossed.

Starting from the eleventh row, we close the work in a circle and continue until we have enough hoses for the sleeves. When it is reached, we lay the sleeves loops on the auxiliary knitting needles and continue to work on the front and back, untying them in a circle to the level of the final length of the product.

Now let's get down to work on the sleeves. Knit will be in a circle, so the delayed loops need to be divided into four stocking knitting needles. We attach the working thread and the contrasting marker thread, marking the beginning of the series in this way.

Let's get to work. In each sixth row, we make a reduction in the beginning (for the bevel of the sleeve): we loop the two loops together and the next two by pulling.

So continue until reaching the given length of the sleeve.

How to tie a raglan sleeve with knitting needles

The way in which the racks are made from the bottom of the product at the initial stage is no different from the process of working on any sweater or pullover. We perform all the details separately to the place where the bevel begins. We lay aside all the parts without closing the hinges.

We knit the sleeves also before the beginning of the bevel. Now four finished parts of the future product are transferred to circular knitting needles. Continue the work by performing circular sweater rows or straight and reverse if the product has a fastener.

In the process of work, we do not forget to make the adjustments for the raglan line in the same way as described above, only in the reverse order.

Raglan sleeve - advantages and disadvantages

All methods of performing knitted products manually have their own advantages and disadvantages.

As the obvious undeniable advantages of products with raglan, you can name the following:

  • If the work is carried out from the neck, the entire product will be free of stitches;

  • In the product there will be practically no thread ends;

  • Do not need a pattern, you can use the method of counting loops;

  • At any time the work can be tried on.

Products in which there is a sleeve of raglan, always beautiful and fashionable. Therefore, as a minus, you can only give two points:

  • In operation there is simultaneously a large number of loops. This disadvantage is particularly significant in the manufacture of clothing for adults.

  • This method limits the possible choice of patterns. Therefore, most of the products are made with a facial smoothness, and in order to diversify the fabric, a melange or shaped yarn is used.

Of course, the sleeve of raglan in the process of knitting can bring additional trouble to the master. But still do not be afraid of this technique. Even with a little experience, you can quickly learn how to tie a raglan sleeve. And in return you will receive truly professional handmade products.

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