I just finished the cable band (the first one shown), but the seaming directions have me a little :?? It says to join with kitchener or favorite invisible seam. Now, I’ve only done kitchener with sock toes but isn’t it only for live stitches? How would I do kitchener, then?
If that’s the wrong way to go, what’s the best method for seaming a cable?
Yes-kitchener is for live stitches. I am wondering if they meant to tell you to do a provisional cast-on for the cable band and it just got missed somehow. I would use mattress stitch to stitch your cable band together.
Yeah, usually if it’s supposed to be provisional, they will say so. It may also be a mistake that they said to use kitchener in the pattern.
You know, you probably don’t [I]have[/I] to use mattress stitch. I just think it makes the end product look tidier, but you could probably use whatever seaming method you want, as there aren’t that many stitches to seam.
There’s a great article on Knitty about seaming that you might want to take a look at:
You’re right that mattress stitch will probably look the best. I was just wondering if there’s any other stitch to use…mattress and kitchener are all I’m familiar with.
It’s so small though. It’s not a big deal. ^.^
Thanks for the link! The garter stitch one is very clear. It’ll come in handy some other time me thinks, too.
You can’t work mattress stitch on a horizontal seam, like this one. This is more like what you do to sew the shoulders of a sweater. Here is a link to a page from a free on-line knitting book about those seams. There are more pages to go to at the bottom for further explanation. Link
The garter stitch one is very clear. It’ll come in handy some other time me thinks, too.