How can I add a hood to a cardigan sweater?
by admin on April 25, 2010
I want to knit a cardigan with a hood for an adult female. I can’t find a pattern. I have cardigan patterns. How can I convert the neckline to a hood?
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I found this one:
http://www.knittingpureandsimple.com/cardi.html
It’s not a free pattern, but I did a search on google using hooded cardigan pattern knit and up it came!
check out this link for free patterns. you may find something there. Here is a link for mary maxim so you can look at their patterns and kits.
http://www.marymaxim.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/TopCategoriesDisplay?storeId=10003&catalogId=50001
Count the stitches allowed to knit up the neck line collar, add one third – cast on this amount and knit in same pattern or stocking stitch until the desired length is reached – I measure from collarbone to top of head, not curving over – just as you would to get height measurement,when it is the length required on right side row knit 2, then 2 tog (you decrease)should give you the same number of stiches for your collar and then I attach the hood by knitting one stitch off kneedle and one off holder for neckline -, when line up edges and with wrong sides facing,take one stitch from needl and one from stitch holder and knit both stitches together and cast off at the same time, using the simple over and off method, then work in the ends.
All I have to say is Elizabeth Zimmerman! Check out one of her books any of them. She does modular knitting where you can combine all types of sweaters to hooded sweaters to jackets with/without collars to hooded ones. She makes everything seem so easy and they you wonder why you ever used anyone else’s patterns. Check out the Tomten Jacket. To bad I can’t do a sketch for ya.