{"id":362,"date":"2012-09-10T06:57:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/?p=362"},"modified":"2012-09-04T14:08:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T21:08:31","slug":"rotation-sizing-and-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/2012\/09\/rotation-sizing-and-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotation sizing and fit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Cookie Crumbs KAL<\/a> group on Ravelry is also hosting a knitalong<\/a>! Their members chose to knit the Rotation<\/a> cardigan.<\/p>\n

Rotation is a standard-fitting cardigan with asymmetrical fronts. The sizing notes give the chest measurement and suggest choosing a size with 0-4 inches of positive ease. For Rotation, which doesn’t close all the way down the front, you’ll get the most accurate fit by sizing by the cross-shoulder measurement.<\/p>\n

I think proper shoulder fit is more important than chest, i.e. a little extra positive or negative ease in the chest is more forgiving but for proper drape the shoulders should hit at the right spot. In general, I would recommend that for all sweaters with set-in sleeves.<\/p>\n

So much like I did for Conic, here are some photos of the Rotation cardigan on other people. The sample was knit in the 35″ size.<\/p>\n

Rotation is pretty much perfect on me with 1″ of positive ease.<\/p>\n

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Kathy, who is 5’1″ (with heels on) and slim, should actually be wearing the 32.5″ size instead of the 35″ – see how the shoulders are too large?<\/p>\n

\"Kathy<\/a><\/p>\n

Eileen is much taller than Kathy but is also slim. She might also choose to knit the smallest size.<\/p>\n

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With 5″ of negative ease in the sample, Gus might be more comfortable in the 37.5″ or even the 40″ sweater. A larger size would drape better in front.<\/p>\n

\"Rotation<\/a><\/p>\n

The Rotation sample was knit in The Plucky Knitter<\/a> Primo Fingering<\/a>, a merino-cashmere-nylon blend fingering weight yarn. It’s got a lot more bounce than the Malabrigo Sock that Conic was knit in.<\/p>\n

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You can see all the photos of Rotation on flickr by clicking on the Rotation tag<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cookie Crumbs KAL group on Ravelry is also hosting a knitalong! Their members chose to knit the Rotation cardigan. Rotation is a standard-fitting cardigan with asymmetrical fronts. The sizing notes give the chest measurement and suggest choosing a size with 0-4 inches of positive ease. For Rotation, which doesn’t close all the way down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patterns","category-shapes-form"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cookiea.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}