help with ribbed neckline

Hello! I’m brand new to the forum and a beginner to boot. I’m working on this sweater vest from Ashley Lillis and it’s going well. But if you look at the photo, the ribbed neckline stands up. Is there a simple way to adjust the pattern so that it lies flat? Your help is very much appreciated! I asked the designer but then felt like a jerk because it is a free pattern plus video tutorial!! Let me know if a better photo, or a shot of the pattern itself is needed. Thank you!

Welcome to the forum and to knitting!
Pick up fewer sts than the video shows especially across the center front. Skip 2-3 sts across the center front to make the neckline lie flatter. It’s a bit of an experiment so you may not get it exactly right the first time.

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Thank you so much! I’m still working on the body of it but hopefully will have the confidence to try this by the time I get to the neck!

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Hello
Cute vest. I didn’t read the pattern but one thing I might do is bind off the neck stitches if it says to leave some on hold. It would involve binding off, not too loosely and possibly with a slightly larger needle if you have one, and then picking up stitches for the neck band as salmonmac described. The reason I would do this is that it is much easier to undo a neckband that doesn’t lead to live stitches, you can literally just pull the yarn strand and watch it unravel knowing you are safe.
There are other ways to be safe, a life line can catch the stitches and is a real help in lots of knitting situations, but I struggled to use life lines correctly when I first started and would lose an extra row or two.
If you decide to bind off all the neck stitches you can try the neck band, rip it out, try again, until you’re happy with the result. Make sure to keep notes on what you do and to ask for help if you need it.

Either way, I hope you’ll share a photo of your work in progress and the finished top. We love seeing what people are making.

As it’s meant to stand up, you may run into issues with the size of the neck opening. You would need it to be wider, to account for the width of the flat neckband, or maybe make a narrower band. Maybe you could follow the neckline decreases for a larger size. Do as Creations suggests and bind off the whole neck, but start the bind-off a couple of rows earlier than the pattern indicates. You’ll have 1 or 2 fewer stockinette stitches across the shoulder, which should give enough room for the neckband to lie flat.

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