I would go for a straightish cut, Twellsy, with a deep casing at the waist for elastic. It will need lining, or an underskirt, or else you will have bumps at the bum & the knees.
A-line skirts are better in a woven fabric - you get weird side flaps with knits.
Best scissors, & cut carefully, & it won’t unravel.
You will need to sew the seams with either a small zigzag, or a ‘lightning’ stitch. The seams can be finished with either a zigzag stitch or an overcasting stitch.
If you post a Photie of the panel on your machine, showing the various stitches, then I can advise.
Practise on your offcuts beforehand. The tension is very important. Use a ballpoint needle, or a stretch stitch needle, & good quality thread.
You need to practise sewing ‘across the grain’ too, so that you get the tension right & the balance between stitch length & width.
OK. The Shrunken Sweater has been unravelled to just below the bit of pattern which shrank and felted.
All the stitches are on a circular needle, as they were when it was first made.
It is easy to see where the sleeves are and where the front and back are, because that is the level at which the decreasing for the yoke was being done, so there are strips four stitches wide which are obvious, and the boundary between front and sleeve, sleeve and back and so on is between second and third stitch of each group of four.
Decreases were made every other row.
Theoretically, there should be either 370sts in the round, divided 72, 113, 72, 113, or 362sts divided 70, 111, 70, 111.
If we get the Underfoot Men to haul the chaises up close to the fire, we could have a few pitchers on a small table between us and not have to move about too much.
Gathering and picking up stitches from stitch holders and knitted panels is waaaaaay beyond me
I would love to do it myself with B’s supervision but the bluddy virus is preventing us meeting up even outside close enough for her to supervise my efforts
This is why I suggested doing something that you can complete yerself, Twellsy. You outside wivvan cold , & temperature is a stupid idea in anyone’s book, & wouldn’t be fair to B either.
