I have been working on my first sweater pattern, and I have come to a point where I just don’t know what to do. I need help! The pattern is found Here. I am at the point where I am supposed to join the sleeve to the body. I have tried to join it a bunch of times, and it isn’t working right. Can anyone help me out?
Ali
Are you having trouble picking up stitches? Amy has a video here at KH for that. It’s about 2/3 of way down the page. See if that helps.
http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/basic_techniques/misc.php
The pattern didn’t say anything about picking up stitches. This is what it says…[B]Join Sleeve to Body:[/B]
Pick up sweater body, place a marker on the same side as the live yarn. Using this yarn, knit across 56 (62, 68) sleeve sts onto the circular needle. Place marker, knit across 82 (92, 102) front sts. Set aside.
I can try to take pictures of what I have if that helps get a visual.
It doesn’t say that, but that is what you’d have to do. You pick up and knit at the same time so you can continue with the sleeve. So what you’ll be doing is sticking the needle into the stitch as per the video and then wrapping the yarn like usual and making a stitch. Then pick up the next one and continue.
I haven’t made this pattern, but I have made sweaters and that is how I interpret it.
Man, this pattern really gave my brain a work out! I think I finally figured out how to do it though. I think what through me off, is the bound off area. I found another raglan sweater pattern and read how they attached the sleeve, and they had stitches put onto a stitch holder, rathan than binding them off. So I took the directions for the sleeve from one pattern, and used it on the pattern I working on, and it worked! The sleeve is attached, and the needle isn’t all jumbled up.
Thanks for helping me out Jan! Sometimes it helps talking it through.
Ali
Jan, I don’t see from the pattern where you have to pick up stitches - it’s a bottom up raglan. The underarm stitches on the sleeves and body are bound off (but can be left on stitch holders like Ali did), but the main sleeve and body stitches are live.
sue
Sue, were you able to make sense of the original pattern? I find it VERY confusing. I am starting on the second sleeve, and I hope it doesn’t give me as much difficulty as the first sleeve.
Ali
I can usually figure out a pattern - what part did you have trouble with?
sue
Here’s the part I saw;
Join Sleeve to Body: Pick up sweater body, place a marker on the same side as the live yarn. Using this yarn, knit across 56 (62, 68) sleeve sts onto the circular needle. Place marker, knit across 82 (92, 102) front sts. Set aside.
Where it says to knit across sleeve stitches onto circular needle I guess I assumed it was picking up even though doesn’t say that. :?? I hope I didn’t steer you wrong! :shifty:
You would knit the sleeve stitches from their holder on to the main needle you’re using for the sweater. The Pick up sweater body' part just means to pick it up from where you'veset it aside’ while you make the sleeves, not pick up stitches. It is worded a little differently…
sue
In the earlier part of the pattern, it says to bind of 12 stitches on the body, and on the sleeve. After doing that, it is very hard to join the sleeve to the body. The last bound of stitch is kinda hanging on it’s own. It is so hard to explain over the net. I couldn’t get it to work. But as soon as I put the stitches on a stitch holder instead of binding it off, it all went together nicely.
Here is some pictures of what the bound off edge looked like.
Here is the body.
Here is the sleeve. That very last bound off stitch makes it VERY difficult. I didn’t know which needle to put it on. I would put it on the right side needle, and the next stitches would stretch out and it wouldn’t connect right. I put it on the left side, and you can’t really knit with the live yarn on that side. Really strange.
That really looks kind of normal after you’ve bound off stitches for an underarm. I leave it with the unworked stitches on the left needle, and when I start joining the pieces for the yoke, just include it with them. But if you put them on stitch holders, that will work out fine too. You can do a 3 needle BO or kitchener them together and it looks better than seaming bound off stitches.
sue