{"id":143,"date":"2007-06-22T07:42:56","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T12:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2007-06-22T07:47:41","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T12:47:41","slug":"dont-sweat-the-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Sweat the Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reference<\/a><\/p>\n

Roseann asked about the method (putting down stitches)\u00a0I used to join the sleeve to the body. It is really very similar, at least in my mind, to a three needle bind off. Here is what I do.<\/p>\n

But first, a word of caution. What I am about to do is if the next row visible row of the sleeve is not<\/em><\/strong> a plain knit row. If it is<\/strong><\/em> just a row of all knits, the instructions are slightly different, which I will go into at the bottom of this entry.<\/p>\n

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  1. \"All<\/a>
    \nI have ended the regular knitting of my sleeve with a wrong side row and have lined up where the sleeve goes on the armhole.<\/li>\n
  2. \"Through<\/a>
    \nWith the working needle (the wooden one in this case,) I go through the body of the sweater and through the next stitch on the resting needle (the metal needle.) I slip off the stitch from the resting needle. I am mindful of which way I slip the stitch off the needle (knitwise or purlwise,) as I have to take this into account later on.<\/li>\n
  3. \"Bring<\/a>
    \nI bring the slipped stitch through the body of the sweater on the working needle, usually using the resting needle to help me get it through.<\/li>\n
  4. \"Slip<\/a>
    \nI slip the stitch back onto the resting needle and knit the stitch. This is where I have to remember which way I slipped the stitch back in step 2, as I don’t want to cross the stitch when I knit it. I usually slip knitwise in step 2, and then go back in through the front of the stitch in this step. You may find it easier to slip purlwise and such. I do recommend that you stay consistent, though, so none of the stitches get crossed.<\/li>\n
  5. \"Once<\/a>
    \nAfter the stitch is knitted, I bring the loop from the previous stitch over the current stitch. In other words, I bind off.<\/li>\n
  6. \"Ready<\/a>
    \nAnd I am ready to do it all over again with the next row of the body and the next stitch of the sleeve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If the sleeve was all stockinette stitch, I would modify this a bit. Instead of slipping the stitch onto the working needle and pulling it through the body, I would knit the stitch, bringing the just worked stitch all of the way through to the wrong side of the body, then binding off.<\/p>\n

    As for how to even things out over the join, I do the same as if I am sewing the sleeve on: I count my rows for the armhole and stitches for my sleeve and figure out how the extra rows will get spread among the stitches. I used to be more exacting with this, like going one for one for three rows, then skip a row, etc. Now, I just go by feel, keeping in mind how many extra rows or stitches I have to account for over the course of the seam. I do tend to make the sleeve where it is supposed to meet up with the shoulder seams, as it is easier to deal with smaller lengths.<\/p>\n

    One more thing, while I am thinking of it. For drop shoulders like this, I lay out the sleeve against the body to figure out how big the armhole is going to be. Using long circular needles really helps with this. I don’t have this option with other armhole designs, as the armhole is already determined by the knitting of the front and back of the sweater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Reference Roseann asked about the method (putting down stitches)\u00a0I used to join the sleeve to the body. It is really very similar, at least in my mind, to a three needle bind off. Here is what I do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knitting","category-technique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.textillian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}