I’ve been knitting the Lattice sweater by Carol Feller on the Interweave website and am about to start the shawl collar. I cast off 14 stitches at the bottom of the neck and once I have knit it I need to join it at the bottom to those cast off stitches. What I wanted advice on is if I should join the left side of the collar to the cast off stitches then the right side separately or stitch the left side and the right side together and then join them to the cast off stitches. Any advice and/or video suggestions would be most welcome.
You could do it either way. I’ve stitch down one side first and then the second but that was more a slight preference than anything else.
Salmonac does the same principle of stitching a horizontal seam to a vertical seam apply when you are stitching the right side of the collar in front of the left side of the collar? There are a couple of my hubby’s sweaters that I look at now and think I could have done that better and I don’t want this to be another one!
I’m not sure I understand. I would stitch one side edge to the horizontal edge of the front then stitch the other side edge to the first. That way you aren’t trying to seam through 3 layers.
If that’s not what you’re asking, just let me know.
I bound off 14 stitches to form the horizontal seam. I then had to pick up and knit stitches around the neckline to knit the shawl collar and i now have to attach the selvedge of the right and left sides of the collar to the horizontal bound off seam overlapping the right side over the left. And I’m thinking for at least part of it I will be attaching the selvedge of the right side of the collar to the horizontal seam through the selvedge of the left hand side won’t I?
You could elvdo that or you could seam the left hand selvedge to the bound off sts and then stitch the right hand selvedge to the left hand selvedge. The right hand selvedge need not be stitched through to the bound off sts.
I’ve put right sides together for this kind of seam and used a back stitch rather than a mattress stitch here but mattress stitch may work too. I felt that the back stitch was a firmer join.
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I actually bit the bullet and just did it. I only overlapped about half an inch otherwise the bottom of the collar would have looked stretched. Now just need to graft the underarm stitches and take a picture 
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