Ann Budd's Brioche Basic Sweater sleeve issue

I’m knitting the Brioche Basic Sweater from Ann Budd’s The Knitter’s Handy Book of Top-Down Sweaters. I have knit a lot in my life, but have only recently gotten into garment knitting. I’ve successfully knit one sweater, and a sweater vest, neither from this book, so I don’t have a whole ton of experience with sleeves.

I’ve finished the body, and have started the sleeves, but I’m running into an issue where I can’t figure out how the sleeves are closed. I’m on page 159, and as far as I can tell, the sleeves are worked in rows the whole way, and never joined into a tube? There’s no description of seaming them into a tube as a finishing step either.

Help! How do the sleeves become a tube?!

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You’re correct that the sleeves are knit back and forth. The finishing should say something about seaming but that may have been left out. Sometimes the sides and sleeves are seamed on one go.

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Thank you! Yes, I think they missed the sleeve finishing steps. The pics also show a a crocheted row around the armscyth that isn’t mentioned either.

I think that might be a single column of the stockinette “rib” showing (and it might vary according to sizes).

Stockinette might be the wrong word as this is brioche, but whatever you would call the flat columns as opposed to the ditches.

I could be wrong, of course. Unfortunately, I don’t have that particular book to check. I should get it as I have several of her other ones and they are really handy.

I don’t usually like brioche that much, but this cardigan looks lovely.

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