Planning the details for the “sweater with the funky yarn”. I couldn’t find a pattern that I liked, so I’m making it up myself based on bits and pieces of different patterns.

Sewing patterns can have curves all over the place, for armholes and sides and necklines and what not. But knitting patterns ultimately tends to boil down to straight lines and triangles. Making things fit is about adjusting the angles and lengths of those lines. “Decrease x stitches on every n:th row”, and you just pull those numbers up and down to fit.

For a curve, you just need many short, straight, angled lines after each other. Knitting is inherently made up of discrete stitches, after all. Even if it looks like a continuous curve, it isn’t. You want a neckline curve? It’ll still have to be broken down into “decrease 10, then decrease 7, then 4” etc. (I’m postponing thinking about the details of this neckline for now.)