Hello
I have a half made sweater and whilst sewing in the second sleeve I’m thinking ahead to the next part. Adding a zip.
The pattern is from a cardigan but instead of a button band I want to pick up (like a button band) work a few cm and make a zip casing in the top half and I’ll join/seam the lower half to make a pullover.
I know a nice pick up from roxanne richardson to set out with double knitting. This will make an inside and outside casing for the main length of the zip (so the inside is neat when the zip flops open). But what do i do for the top and bottom of the zip?
Any thoughts or tutorial or free pattern perhaps where i can get an idea of how to work it?
I have a bunch of colours and 2 different lengths in these zips, i might embroider or surface crochet to add colour to the sweater to match. Not decided which length the put in yet, maybe I’ll put in the long at the neck and the shorter for a zip pocket.
Here’s a pic with it just laid out roughly
That sweater looks very nice as all your sweater do.
The double knit bands are a neat solution especially for cardigans. I don’t know if you’ve seen this Roxanne video but she works a separate cover for the inside of the garment (see 13:30min in particular). It might be nicer in a thinner yarn.
I’ve used pliers to pull out some teeth at the bottom of the zipper then cut through the cloth with regular scissors. It saves trying to hack through to shorten the zipper with kitchen shears. At the top, the extra zipper fabric is folded in on the diagonal and hidden under the facing.
Thank you.
I did glance at this video but kind of disregarded as the kntting is going up nd then folded over the top of the zip whereas i plan to knit across which my logic can cope with along the main length of the zip but fails to understand at the top.
Fold zip fabric in then maybe sew across the top of the double knitting (mattress stitch) like a little seam?
