raglan increases where knit meets purl

[sugarcoatedlie]

I have a quick question for you kids. I'm trying to knit a top-down raglan with stockinette front and back and reverse stockinette sleeves (they're cables with purl backgrounds), and I'm having trouble finding the prefect increase

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[mollpeartree]

My (adittedly lazy) approach would be to just start knitting rather than purling two stitches along the decrease edges of the sleeve and decrease normally. Only other knitters will know that those are technically sleeve stitches anyway, but they will also instantly grasp why you did it that way. I'm guessing it would look pretty good too, a neat diagonal decrease ridge that will set off the purl stitches in the sleeve nicely.

It's a concept from cabled sweaters, where you're usually working a panel of simple knit/purl patterns where all the decreases will go, to avoid the tricky issue of decreasing diagonally across cable patterns. I tend to use it when designing sweaters with all-over lace patterns, too. The more complicated the lace pattern, the harder it is to work in neatly matching decrease edges. I prefer to just insert either a panel of a much simpler lace panel (you can set them off with a line of twisted knit stitch against some purling, or just a few plain knit stitches depending on the pattern). Or just switching to garter or seed stitch usually works too.