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I am very interested in knitting a jacket diagonally as have lots of scraps and thought it would be a nice stiped effect- can anyone point me in the direction of a pattern pref to download as live in England not USA, Thanks for any help Gill

Hi Gill,

Would this help you?

http://www.straw.com/cpy/patterns/taos-jacket.html

The yarn tension given would indicate a heavy DK to Aran style yarn knitting at around 18-20 stitches to the 10 cm in stocking stitch.

Hi Gill,
I took a class on diagonal knitting at the Northwest Regional Spinners Association anual conference. The two things that were really helpful are:
1. Any gauge that knits up square such as garter stitch; seed stitch, moss stitch, slip stitch, mosaic stitch, will work up fairly square on the diagonal. Increase at the beginning and end of the right side row and work the wrong side row plain. Work a swatch to see this.
Eclectickat
2. Stockinet stitch is not square! To compensate for this increase on each end of the knit row and in addition increase at the beginning only of the purl row. This gives three increases instead of two for every two rows.
Before starting work up a swatch of your pattern stitch and see if it works square or is off a bit. Once you know your pattern you will know if any extra increases are needed to square it up.

Thanks for your replies, both very helpful
Gill

Hi Gill,
I designed the Diagonal Vertical Cardigan and it was so popular I recreated the look in the Diagonal Vertical Cardigan II. The DVCII was published in Knit-n-Style.

Here is the link to my FREE patterns page:
http://www.yarnxpress.com/index.asp

As you scroll down the page, you'll find both patterns. By the way, the first version will be stunning in Sari Silk yarn.

Sue

Hi knittingSue, welcome to the forum and thank you for sharing your pattern.

Thank you Sue that was exactly what I was looking for. Gill