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I created the sweater pattern using my generator. (See the links to the right.)
I’ve finished the front and back and assembled the shoulders.
I knit the neck band in ribbing and mitered the center. I took the ribbing off on waste yarn, and back stitched through the open loops to attach it to the neck. I always read the waste yarn should be removed as you back stitch, but I found it easier to leave it on, and remove it at the very end.
Backstitching through the tiny loops was a pain in the neck, but it looks great.
Now, I need to knit the sleeves.
Lucia
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O.K., I’m lost — Please tell me EXACTLY how you did the mitered, ribbed v-neck . . . in two pieces, each going from center front to center back?; around from center front to opposite shoulder, then the other way from center front to the same shoulder?; or what? And how did you do the decreases for the vee, working between the two beds? I have a hard time getting my fingers in there and still being able to see what I’m doing! Do you transfer the stitches to be decreased to the main bed first, then decrease, then transfer them back to the ribber bed — if the decreases are every other row, that sounds like a pain in the you know what.
So tell, please. This inquiring mind really wants/needs to know!
Thanks1
Comment by Sylvia (0 comments.) — 4/12/2004 @ 12:06 pm
Hi!
That’s what I get for doing it after writing the page.
This is for the RIBBED band.
You knit it in one piece!
The way I did it exactly (MK on my Passap!)
I raised a number of stitches for the “top”. (I did fiddle to make sure that the edge needles were on the main bed– so the edges would be “knit”).
I knit a zig zag row, (which counts as 1)
Then a two circular rows. (So only knitting on the front, and only on the back) I racked somewere. (My passsap just beeps when I need to rack.) Then I knit a row with all stitch on both beds.
After than, I increased 1 stitch at the edge of the strip every two rows. I did this by raising a needle and shifting stithches over. (I did make sure that the edge was alway on the main bed– even if that meant I might temporarily have 3 stitches “knit”.)
Then, when I reached the correct number or rows, I switched to waste yarn.
I knit about 10 rows in waste yarn. (It doesn’t matter, but I wouldn’t advise fewer than 4).
Then I dropped the whole thing off the machine. It’s just a strip!
Then, I took a tapestry needle and sewed the edges together. That’s the miter.
Then.. and this is a PAIN IN THE NECK. I pined the band to the neck. (The shoulders were already sewn.) I took a tapestry needled and backstitched through the loops of the last row of the main yarn. I made sure I just caught the edge of the neck.
When I began, I tried to unravel the waste yarn as I sewed. That’s what I’d always seen. But, I found it was easier to just leave it, snip and pull it out later! (This sounds odd, but it was!)
I was planning to take pictures.. but I was having such a hard time holding the tapestry needle and trying to sew.
Comment by lucia — 4/12/2004 @ 12:29 pm