From body to pattern - horizontally

For now, we will leave the”vertical issue”, and address the”horizontal” one. When working your garment pieces from the bottom up, where on each row will you place the shaping?

The quickest answer is: at the beginning and at the end of a row. This is just one of the options, though – but not the only one.

Before this have a look in the mirror again. Stand straight, facing the mirror. Those of us who have an indented waist will spot it. The place where the waist shows is where the side seams of the garment will fall. Then turn your side to the mirror and look again. You will spot your waist again – and for many of us, the difference between the bust and the waistline, as well as the curve of your spine, will be even more obvious from this side perspective. The outline of your body that you are looking at now is not where the side seams will fall.

When this is not a good idea

Crochet can be the most simple and straightforward craft – but it’s also a wonderful technique with which you can create intricate, beautiful stitch patterns. If your stitch pattern is very complex, it may be difficult to make decreases and increases in the middle of it. You have to try and see. In some cases, these decreases and increases can work as an interesting design feature. In other cases, they may be impossible to make without disrupting the harmony and the beauty of the stitch pattern.

In the latter case, you will have to do your shaping at the very beginning and the very end of the rows, at the side seams. You still make your decreases and increases in four different places, so the”divide-by-four” rule still applies. But when you seam your garment, all the shaping will fall next to the side seams. This means that in the finished garment, the shaping actually occurs only in two places (the side seams), instead of being”spread out” around your body.

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