Working out the finer points of a thirty-year-old Passap pattern before committing the time and materials to a full size, customized garment is a headache! I have a new first step for knitting garments: successfully complete a half-scale version first.
Turns out, half, third, and quarter-size pinable dress forms are very common in the fashion industry. They give designers and design students the same advantage; to work out the ideas with minimal materials and time.
Converting a knitting pattern to half-scale is as simple as dividing the instructions in half. Divide the stitches, rows, decreases, and increases by two, or multiply them by .5, and round off.
Here is my first half-scale sweater, #7127, a sleeveless cowl. It's stretched over a roll of paper towels, with plastic bag arms.
Down the road, I hope to make some actual half-scale dress forms from this pattern on Etsy.
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