Pattern cutting · Cardigan
Made-to-measure cardigan pattern
The cardigan isn't available in the studio yet. We'd rather tell you here than sell you a pattern that wouldn't really be one.
The made-to-measure cardigan pattern isn't yet among what the studio can draft. A cardigan brings three things together at once — a front that opens all the way down, set-in sleeves and a soft knit — and we don't yet have a pattern block that holds all three together properly. Rather than dress up this gap with a neighbouring garment, we're keeping the family closed until it's right.
Made to measure, piece by piece
Why a cardigan pattern to your measurements changes everything
A cardigan looks simple and isn't. Everything hinges on the front opening edge: it's the longest line of the garment, it runs from the neckline to the hem, it carries the button band or facing, and it decides whether the two fronts hang straight or pull apart. A pattern block that doesn't draw this overlap — or draws it flat, with the two edges just meeting — gives a garment that can't be sewn. We checked our blocks one by one: none can do ‘open front + sleeves + knit’ all at once.
What we can do today, on the other hand, covers a good part of the use. The front-buttoned waistcoat is fully drafted, with its facing and armhole finishes. Jumpers and sweatshirts in knit, with long set-in sleeves and ribbing at the cuffs and waist, are too. And the front-buttoned shirt or blouse brings, in a woven fabric, the full opening the cardigan looks for in knit.
If it really is a cardigan you want to sew, tell us: that's what moves it up our work list. In the meantime, no credits are committed on this family — we don't put on sale what we can't yet deliver.
In the meantime
What the studio drafts instead for now
- Front-buttoned waistcoat
- Knit jumper and sweatshirt, long sleeves
- Ribbing at the cuffs and waist
- Front-buttoned shirt and blouse (woven)
Further reading
Read in the journal
Not yet
We don't sell what we can't yet draft
This family will join the studio when its pattern is accurate, not before. In the meantime, discover the families we draft today — or write to us: knowing what you want to sew is what decides the order of our work.
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