It All Started Here:
This is my EZ's Epaulet Sweater. It would actually be farther along by now if I hadn't been dumb enough to treat this like any other sweater. Most top-down sweaters will have increases on BOTH sides of the markers for the sleeves if they have markers for the sleeves. This is called "raglan" and is a sweater style that those of us who weren't Elizabeth Zimmerman use to make sweaters. But the reason I am making this particular sweater is to learn her shaping technique for this particular sweater. It starts with a long skinny band of garter, then you knit a rectangle just on the center stitches, then you pick up stitches on one side of that rectangle and knit another rectangle, then repeat on the other side, and then shape that skinny band into the neck band. (Thank heavens there is a chart in the book for this--otherwise I would be writing this from a corner in the back of my closet surrounded by frogged and tear-soaked purple yarn). Now this ...