This brief guide is intended for experienced girls who knit not only from magazines and instructions but can also make calculations on their own, those who have already knitted items from top to bottom, for example, raglan.
Set-in sleeve is a more complex technique of seamless knitting from top to bottom. And the most challenging part, in my opinion, is the calculations.
The knitting algorithm is as follows:
1. Knit a turtleneck.
2. Knit 2 set-in sleeves.
3. Knit stitches along both sleeves and join the knitting in the round.
4. Knit in the round, making increases at the beginning and end of each sleeve (4 increases in every 2nd row). The sleeve stitches are the stitches of the set-in sleeves; for convenience, you can use markers. Place one marker before the first stitch of the sleeve, the second after the last, and make increases within this highlighted section, after and before the marker.
5. When the armhole length reaches 2/3 of the required length, start making increases from the body side as well (8 increases in every 2nd row: 4 in the sleeves, 4 in the body)
6. Transfer the sleeve stitches to additional needles or threads, and knit the body in the round, adding stitches for the underarms.
7. Knit the sleeves in the round, picking up additional stitches from the underarms on the body side.
