It occurs to me that the shorter measurement of the front might be where the
neck shaping starts. About three to four inches difference is about right.
If there is no other shaping, then you can make the sweater whatever length
you like very simply by reducing the number of rows knitted before the
armholes.

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Sue W in East Anglia, UK


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A couple of questions :

1) Is it weird that my pattern says this: Cont even until work from beg
measures 27, ending with RS facing for next row for the back, BUT then
this: Cont even until work from beg measures 24, ending with RS facing
for next row? ie, is it strange that there seems to be a 4 inch
difference between the back and the front?

2) I measured my brother (for whom I'm knitting this sweater) and it
seems the sweater at 28 inches is going to be way to big for him (he
has a short torso). Is there anyway I can fudge with the numbers so
that the finished measurement is around24 (and not 28? the pattern
doesn't give finshed measurements (only finished chest measurements).