Making a raglan, top down, easy sweater with my hand spun. I am thrilled with how this sweater turned out - everything from dyeing, blending, spinning and knitting was a joy. The sweater is lovely and soft, with a nice drape (I think it has to do with the bias knitting too).

The Plan -
Garter stitch for the neck, cuffs and bottom edges. Stockinette body. Regular raglan increases. When the sleeve stitches are put on hold and I begin the body, I plan on doing some short row shaping to make it similar to Breathing Space by Veera Valimaki - probably skewed to the back a bit. When the body is finished I will use the leftover yarn for the sleeves - depending on how much yarn left the sleeves might just be cap or 3/4 length.

The Process -

I knit a little sample and it came out to 5 stitches/inch. I wanted a 21” neck so cast on 105 stitches.
Knit 5 rows of garter, then started the increases.

The markers for the raglan increases were placed as follows-

16 m 1 m 18 m 1 m 1 m 33 m 1 m 18 m 1 m 16

The 16 stitches are the back for the garter band I knitted back and forth and added a little button with a loop to close it just because I had an appropriate button that I thought would look nice, the 18 stitches are the sleeves and the 33 stitches are the front of the sweater.
I also did 3 short rows to give some shape to the neckline - starting 1 stitch onto the front past the raglan, I knit 2 stitches past the wrap for the W&T (on both sides).

I made increases on both sides of the raglan markers, left and right leaning away from the markers, every second row.

When the top was the right length I put the sleeve stitches on hold and added 2 stitches under the arms to the body. I knit short rows - from the side marker - on the front 15 stitches W&T, and 20 stitches on the back W&T. Then 3 stitches past the wraps until they reached the other side marker. then I knit bias - increases on both sides of the side marker on the longer side and decreases on both sides of the side marker on the shorter sides. After about 6”, I did the same short rows on the other side, plus more bias knitting - this created a slight slope to the bottom with a nice point on one side.

I finished the bottom edge of the body and the sleeves with a few garter rows. 3/4 sleeves.

5g of yarn leftover.