Monday, June 26, 2023

knit-picky details...

 The Front - reverse the needle selection – only if you’re really wanting it perfect - #4-left, out of work and repeat across the row. What this does is make the pattern match over the shoulder – hey, I’m a little on the vertically-challenged side and people have been looking over my shoulder forever! Add the extra stitch at the right this time so the side seams look the same.

I opted for a high, round neck version this time, those yarn marks on the Back really helped to solidify this for me, so I shortrowed the neckline, beginning 8 cm down from top of shoulder.

A cool thing about using the purl side as the right side of a garment is on the first shoulder, no need to take it off on waste yarn! It’s like a small bonus! Because the seam is made by putting purl (wrong) sides together and the purl side is already there, do it now – but just the first one – still need to put the neck band on before joining the second one! At the top of the shoulder, after the shortrows, knit a row  to bring all the shoulder sts back to work and get rid of the wraps and now, just hang the appropriate shoulder from the Back to make the shoulder seam right now.

Neckband is pretty easy – just rehang the stitches, eliminating the empty-needle spaces and knit as the original pattern.

And those sneakers! I didn’t plan that but, you know, when good things happen…

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