Sideways Knit Sweater Pattern Builder
Create a Custom Sideways Knit Sweater Pattern
Knit the sweater body sideways to make better use of your needle bed. Choose a cardigan or pullover, starting size, fit, sleeve style, and knitting gauge. The builder calculates the pattern for your yarn and your machine.
More sizing flexibility
A sideways construction places the garment length across the needle bed instead of the full body width. This can make it possible to knit larger sweaters on machines with limited needle-bed width.
Choose your size and enter your machine capacity. The builder checks the pattern against the number of needles available.
What you choose
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Cardigan or pullover
Choose an open-front cardigan or a pullover with the fronts joined.
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Your starting size
Choose from Misses, Women's, Men's, Kids', or Baby sizes, then personalize the sweater with your preferred finished fit.
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Finished fit
Choose close, standard, or relaxed fit. Ease is added to the standard body measurements for your starting size.
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Sleeve style
Choose long, 3/4, elbow, or short sleeves.
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Your stitch and row gauge
Enter the gauge from your swatch over 4 inches / 10 cm. Because the garment is knitted sideways, stitch and row gauge are applied according to the knitting direction.
How it works
Choose cardigan or pullover, a starting size, finished fit, and the supported sleeve options.
Enter the stitch and row gauge from your swatch. The builder turns the sweater construction sideways and calculates the personalized stitch and row counts for each section.
Knit from the screen or print a clean worksheet to use at your machine.
What the builder creates
The builder creates a custom V-neck cardigan or pullover pattern knitted sideways, with personalized stitch counts, row counts, and knitting instructions.
Knitting the body sideways changes how the garment uses the needle bed. This can make larger finished bust/chest sizes possible when a traditionally knitted sweater would require more needles than the machine holds.
The advantage is greater flexibility, not unlimited sizing. The builder still checks whether the garment dimensions fit the entered machine capacity.
While your membership is active, you can update the size, yarn, gauge, fit, or style choices and let the builder recalculate the pattern for you.
Knit Weave | Lay-In
A technique that places decorative strands across a base of knitting (usually stockinette)
Bouclé
A textured yarn created in the spinning process.
Any yarn. Any machine.
Use any suitable yarn on any knitting machine. Enter the gauge you achieved, and the builder calculates the sideways pattern for you.
Included with Knit It Now membership
The Sideways Knit Sweater Pattern Builder is included with a paid Knit It Now membership. There is nothing extra to buy for this pattern.
Patterns you create remain in your account. If your membership ends, you can still view, print, and download them, but editing, recalculating, and creating new patterns require an active membership.
