37 thoughts on “sideways reimagined”

1. I am a size small (petite). If I want to make this to fit, would I decrease 4 stitch­es (or more?) It looks like an easy and cute pullover and I appre­ci­ate the free pat­tern! Thanks for any advice.

2. Thanks for vis­it­ing Louise! The sweater is sup­posed to be loose fit­ting, I’m a size S or XS myself, and it fits. But if you were to make it small­er, then yes you would decrease 4 stitch­es for every inch, and maybe just work four rows even in the front/shoulder/back part on each side, before the mesh pat­tern begin around the neck open­ing. Hope that makes sense! Hap­py crocheting!

3. I appre­ci­ate your prompt reply and sug­ges­tions Trish! I am going to try the pat­tern just as you have writ­ten it — sounds as if it will fit me too. I’m kind of new to cro­chet, but I would like to give this pullover a try, as your instruc­tions seem easy to fol­low. Thank you!!!

4. Hi Trish, This sweater that you designed looks absolute­ly gor­geous on you…tall? and slen­der. I have a dumpi­er fig­ure (near­ing 70) but I am con­sid­er­ing cro­chet­ing this…

5. Thanks Patri­cia! I’m not tall at all, and the sweater is sup­posed to be loose fit­ting so I think it would work for dif­fer­ent fig­ure types. Hope you enjoy the pat­tern if you do give it a try!

6. This is beau­ti­ful. I’m won­der­ing if it could be adapt­ed for thread ?
   I have a shiny roy­al blue thread. Thank you.

7. Love­ly! thanks for sharing :)

   Greet­ings from Germany

8. Thanks Gaby! :D

9. Thanks Judy! I think if you use thread and fol­low the pat­tern as is, it will turn out too small… the gauge for thread is so dif­fer­ent that it would be hard to adapt — one would almost have to rewrite the pat­tern. Prob­a­bly a worsted weight cot­ton would be a good sum­mery alter­na­tive! Hope this helps!

10. Thank you so much for shar­ing this pat­tern. I have just fin­ished mine. I would post a pic­ture but I don’t know how. I fol­lowed your direc­tions for the Small size. I added 3 inch­es to the length. When I seamed-up the sides, I left open the extra three inch­es and sc all around open­ings and bot­tom. I also added a sc around the bot­tom of the arms. Again, thank you for this pat­tern. I had been think­ing about some­thing sim­i­lar when I ran across your pat­tern. I made mine in white with the CSS. My pic­ture makes it look huge. It fits me per­fect­ly. Blessings.

11. Thank you so much for the free pat­tern — love wear­ing things like this and will def­i­nite­ly have to give it a try!

12. You’re so wel­come Bar­bara! The details at the bot­tom edg­ing sounds fan­tas­tic! Glad you enjoyed the pattern!

13. You’re wel­come Diane! Hap­py crocheting!

14. Hi Trish,
    I’m mak­ing this now… I’m a visu­al learn­er for the most part but I can read pat­terns fair­ly easy But im hav­ing some dif­fi­cul­ty fig­ur­ing this one out. As far as I can tell it’s made from one side to the oth­er, but I’m at the part where it says back and to add a new ball of yarn to the first row of the front and I’m just not sure where to join the yarn… any tips or pics would be great­ly appre­ci­at­ed … I real­ly love the sweater and I hope to fig­ure this out!☺ Thank you

15. Hi Amy, thank so much for giv­ing this pat­tern a try! For the back, you’re attach­ing yarn where you left off when you start­ed on the front (where it says leave the remain­ing stitch­es unworked in the front part). Join the yarn to the stitch that is to the left beside the last stitch of row 1 of front. Hope this helps! Hap­py crocheting!

16. Hi, Trish — I love the pat­tern! Thanks so much!
    But, I am a bit con­fused — at the begin­ning (sleeve) we have 32 dc (ch 36, dc in each chain, start­ing with 4th from hook) === and then rows 6, 12, 18 are increase rows where 2 dcs are added (one begin­ning and end of row, where it says “ch 3, 2 dc in next dc, dc in each dc until last two st, 2 dc in next dc, dc in top of turn­ing ch” — There­fore with 3 increase rows of 2 each, how do we end up with 40 dc in row 18?
    What am I missing?

17. Hi Car­o­line, thank you for giv­ing the pat­tern a try! When you have a chain of 36 ch, you’ll end up with 34 dc, because the first 3 ch counts as a dc. After the 3 increase rows for a total of 6 stitch­es increased, you’ll end up with 40 stitch­es. Hope this helps! Hap­py crocheting!

18. Okay, thanks, I mis­un­der­stood — I’ll give it anoth­er try from the top (I mean the side — lol). I will make sure I have 34 dc in first row on the chain.

19. Thanks for shar­ing anoth­er pat­tern, Trish!
    Just start­ing this and I was hav­ing an issue as well with the begin­ning st count for the sleeves. Maybe it would be help­ful if it was not­ed in the begin­ning (before row 1) that the ch 3 counts as the first stitch. I saw that it was men­tioned in the 2nd row but not the first.

20. Thanks so much for giv­ing the pat­tern a try, Shanese! Sor­ry about the con­fu­sion, will keep it in mind in the next pat­tern I write!

21. How would you for 2 or 3x

22. Hi Jeanette, thank you for vis­it­ing! The pat­tern goes by mea­sure­ment rather than sizes, so if you find out the exact mea­sure­ment you need in inch­es, there are point­ers writ­ten in the pat­tern to give you an idea of how to increase size. I’m unfor­tu­nate­ly not able to go through step by step how to make a dif­fer­ent size, but hope the point­ers help. Anoth­er way to increase size is to use a larg­er hook and heav­ier yarn, i.e. bulky weight with 8 mm hook. Thanks again for check­ing out the pattern!

23. I am lov­ing this pattern!
    In row 4 for the sec­ond set of direc­tions for Front/Shoulder/Back, should it say: 2 dc in chain 2 space?
    Thanks for a great pat­tern. I love that I can make this sweater all in one piece!

24. Hi Angela, thank you so much for spot­ting that! Yes it should say 2 dc in ch 2 sp. It’s been cor­rect­ed! Thanks again, and I’m glad you like the pat­tern! Hap­py crocheting!

25. This pat­tern looks great! I’ve nev­er tried mak­ing a sweater before, but with this pat­tern, I think I might be able to pull it off. Thanks for posting!

26. thanks for giv­ing this pat­tern at try Alice! hap­py crocheting!

27. Hey! I love this pat­tern and I’m cur­rent­ly mak­ing my sec­ond one but this time I altered the size a bit and I have a ques­tion. If I added extra chains to the back/front to increase the length, how does that affect the tri­an­gle accent por­tion? I want to say I would just add the extra 4 chains to the stitch count before I start the mesh part, because in the­o­ry I added those extra stitch­es to the beginning/end of the row so that’s the count that would be affect­ed. Right? Or am I total­ly off?

    To be less vague, what I’m actu­al­ly ask­ing is if I have a total stitch count of 138 for the front/back por­tion, and in row 6 of that sec­tion it says to do 61 (well, 62 with the start­ing chain) stitch­es before I do the Ch 2/skip 2 part, do I add the extra 4 chains there and do 66 stitch­es before the Ch/skip part?

28. Hi Abby, thank you for giv­ing the pat­tern a try! You’re total­ly cor­rect, if you added stitch­es to the front and back, you would work more dou­ble cro­chet stitch­es (how­ev­er many you added to each end) before start­ing the mesh pat­tern. Hap­py crocheting!

29. Looks beau­ti­ful! I don’t see what size the pat­tern is and I would like to make a medi­um or a large. Thanks again for the free pattern.

30. Thanks so much for vis­it­ing Bon­nie and so sor­ry for the late reply! The fin­ished size of the sweater is list­ed in the post as:
    Fin­ished cir­cum­fer­ence at bust: 37″
    Sleeve cir­cum­fer­ence at upper arm: 14″
    Sleeve length: 11.5″
    Length: 22″
    Ways to increase size are includ­ed through­out the pat­tern in ital­ics. Hap­py crocheting!

31. Ques­tion on upsiz­ing the sec­ond sleeve. I’ve nev­er made a sweater before, and love how this has worked out. Any­way, the instruc­tions say to make sure if I added sritch­es (and rows) to the first sleeve to also add them to the sec­ond, but does that mean I would count few­er than 46 to start, or just add them at the end?

32. Hi Sal­ly! So sor­ry about the delay in reply! I’ve been out of coun­try and did­n’t have access to my blog. I hope this did­n’t delay your sweater too much, thank you for giv­ing the pat­tern a try! For the sec­ond sleeve, you would begin with the same num­ber of stitch­es in the last row of the first sleeve, because the sec­ond sleeve starts right from the body rather than from the cuff. The entire sweater is made in one piece, then fold­ed in half and seamed under the sleeves and along the sides. Hope this makes sense! Hap­py crocheting!

33. When you fin­ish row 19 and do your 45 chains and 47 chains to make the body. Is that where the 22″ length comes in to play? should those 45 chains be 22″? 

    Thank you!

34. Yes, the ch 45 will make the length of the sweater, which is 22″. Thank you for giv­ing the pat­tern a try, hap­py crocheting.

35. Hi, I am mak­ing this again. I love it, thank yoou. But have a question.….…..in the sec­tion below, should there be a ch2 ?

    Front

    Row 1: ch 3, dc in each dc until 2 dc before ch 2 sp, [ch 2, 2 dc in ch 2 sp] twice, sk 2 dc, (ch2?) dc in next dc, turn. Leave remain­ing st unworked.

36. Hi Kathy, thank you giv­ing the pat­tern anoth­er try. There isn’t a ch‑2 in the space you indi­cat­ed because it is how a bit of a curve is cre­at­ed around the neck­line. Hope this helps, take care.

37. Thank you. I got it right this time. The last time I got it to work, but had to kind of flub it to make it work. It still turned out nice and I love it so much I had to make a dif­fer­ent col­or. This time it is perfect!

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