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As anyone who has been reading lately knows, the Friday Group class regulars decided that they wanted to do a top-down raglan sweater, knit-along style.

Only thing is, they are all different shapes and sizes — being that they are human beings and all.

And yet, they still all wanted ones that fit properly.

Picky, picky.

Enter moi, with an idea  — always a dangerous thing — for a way to accomplish a proper-fitting raglan for ANY BODY.

Born of my own issues with my petite-size short armholes — attempted once or twice in the past, but set aside — now, resurrected by a conversation I had in a yarn shop, maybe last summer? with a fellow petite knitter named Valerie — plus the enthusiasm of the Friday girls.

Or, as I like to call them these days, the Magnificent Seven.

Here are four of them, plus me, wearing our yokes.  Our yokes that FIT.  Our yokes with raglan seam lines that go right to the corner of Upper Back and Armpit — no more, no less.  No bagging underarms for this crowd!!

First we have Mary, who has already done one top-down raglan with me, and came back to do this one with the group.

Here’s Sheryl, who is so tickled at the fit of her yoke!  Or maybe she’s just being tickled by her helpers.  Either way, I hated to crop out her lovely smile.  But after all, it’s the sweater that we’re looking at here.

Here’s Rock Star.  I have to mention here that Rock Star said something hilarious at the end of last class.  I mean, here we are — for like a month and a half, we’ve all been using different yarns, different gauges, and we all have different bodies with different fit issues — working off the same set of directions, but calculating our own numbers.

And then RS says something like, "hey, you know, you could use these directions again — just knit another gauge swatch, and redo all the numbers."

(Of course, this is the same artiste who did a colored pencil drawing of my all-black cat Morgan, and at one point mentioned, "You know, there’s a lot of black on that cat.")

And here’s her sweater!

It won’t surprise anyone to know that I’m thinking of trying to steal Sandy‘s.  Such pretty green yarn!!  And just look at that FIT!!

And here’s mine, with a little bit of sleeve attached, to prove that it’s going to work.  It may look a little tight, but the sweater I’m copying has a very slim-fitting sleeve.  (I like slim-fitting sleeves.)  Also, the gauge expands a bit with blocking, so I’m not too worried.

Linda is in CA, The Pats got behind ’cause she had the flu, and Leslie is knitting hers for someone else, so we don’t have pics of those yet.  But we will!

When all is said and successfully done, I will be making the class material into an e-book — ’cause it looks like it’s gonna be good stuff.  So stay tuned!