I’m knitting a Debbie Bliss baby hooded sweater (it’s in a few of her books) and I’m 99% there. Trouble is I’m stuck with the hood. I’ve followed the instructions and can’t work out how on earth to sew it together to make it a sensible hood. I know it should be obvious so I’m not sure if I’ve done something mega wrong. Has anyone else knitted this hooded sweater? Do they have any advice?
Thanks
Tracy
I have a Debbie Bliss book with a hooded sweater in it but I don’t know if it’s the same type.
Do the finishing directions say “Fold cast-off edge of hood in half and join seam. Sew cast-on sts of hood to bound-off edge of back neck?”
If it does, you just bring the edges you bound off for the hood together and sew them so they’ll be a seam across the top of the head. Then sew the back of the neck stitches together with the bottom of the hood stitches at the neck.
thanks - it’s the right pattern. i’ve just worked it out. once you have finished the main body of the sweater you have two front parts left on stitch holders, which the pattern says to knit across, cast on, then knit across the rest (forming the hood). by doing this i’ve basically made the hood in reverse! i think the pattern is misleading as the only way to get the hood the right way round is to actually pearl across, then cast on, then pearl again. guess i’ll have to undo and start again!
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You can knit across if you have the right side facing you.
HI I’m hoping to revive this conversation! I’ve just about completed this hooded sweater pattern and have a problem completing the hood. As directed, I folded the hooded and joined the seam. However, I am left with approximately 42 stitches from the cast on edge of the hood to join to only 26 bound off stitches at the back neck (after joining shoulders). Is there some instruction missing? Or am I simply misunderstanding? I am certain that I followed the knitting instructions for all of he components, but I cannot for the life of me figure out this hood! (I am fairly certain that this is the same pattern discussed here earlier)
Welcome to KH!
I’m not sure if this is the one you’re making or not. There are a couple of hooded sweaters from Debbie Bliss.
You would have to join about 2sts of the hood to each stitch of the back neck. I wonder if it might be easier to bind off the hood, knitting 2 together for most of the sts as you bind off. Then it might be easier to seam the hood to the back neck.
A few complaints on the Ravelry page about the large size of the hood. There is an errata page but the link isn’t working. Hopefully you didn’t need it.
Thank you so much for this speedy response! I have another Debbie Bliss book which included a pattern for a hooded jacket (very similar to the pattern I was using) and those instructions mentioned “easing in” the stitches of the hood to the back. So I began to think that was what I needed to do. I love your suggestion to bind off the hood and then bind off two stitches at a time. I think that will work nicely. I’m so grateful for your help. This had me pretty frustrated because the rest of the sweater was soooooo easy. I’ll let you know how your suggestion works out!
PS. That wasn’t the pattern I used, but it seems that she likes to use a large hood design.
See how it goes and come back if there’s still a problem. Even if there isn’t, we’d love to see the finished jacket.
Yes, Debbie Bliss often repeats patterns or elements of patterns like hoods in a couple of books. Her designs are lovely but sometimes a stumper.
Thanks again for your great advice!
I couldn’t use your suggestion to “undo the bind off edge and redo binding off two stitches of the hood at a time” because that edge of the hood was actually the cast on edge! But I was able to make the join stitching the hood stitches two to one with the back neck. It worked perfectly! Thanks so much for your help!!!
The sweater still needs to be blocked but here are two photos.
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Very neatly done! Your knitting is beautifully even and the jacket looks adorable. Thank you for the follow up and photo.
