How long should my sweater be?
Your size is a starting point. Your favorite sweater length is personal.
A sweater you enjoy wearing is a useful guide to your preferred length.
Choose Your Length
Choosing a size doesn’t determine where you want your sweater to end. You might prefer a cropped cardigan, an everyday hip-length sweater, or a longer tunic.
Your Knit It Now Pattern Builder provides standard starting measurements. Review the garment length and adjust it to suit your style before creating your pattern.
What is a Pattern Builder?
A Pattern Builder creates personalized knitting instructions from your chosen style, measurements, and gauge, with technique help available as you knit.
Try This
- Choose a few sweaters whose lengths you enjoy wearing.
- Lay each sweater flat without stretching it.
- Measure each sweater, noting your starting and ending points.
- Record your favorite lengths with descriptions such as “cropped cardigan” or “everyday sweater.”
- Check the builder’s measurement guide and enter your preferred length using the same measurement points.
Check the starting measurement and adjust the length to suit you.
Compare like measurements. Check the builder’s measurement guide, including whether the length includes the bottom band or hem.