Seaming sleeve on after using kitchener for shoulder--edited

How-to Questions
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I’ve edited this post because I think the problem I encountered is related to Kitchener stitch. Kinda long but reads fast…

So a piece of stockinette (RS) looks like rows and columns of ‘v’ stitches like this:
(top)
vvvv
vvvv
vvvv
vvvv
(cast on)

rotated left looks like this, with the top now on the left:
(side edge)
>>>>
>>>> (cast on)
>>>>
>>>>
(side edge)

If I knit up two separate pieces and lay them flat with the tops touching (like to make a shoulder seam), then it looks like columns of ‘v’ stitches going from each cast-on to each top. The open ends of the v’s bump into each other at the top, like this:

(side edges)
<<<<>>>>
<<<<>>>>
<<<<>>>>
<<<<>>>>
(side edges)

I hope you are still reading!

So when I grafted the tops using Kitchener, the stiches no longer lined up that way – the pieces were offest by half a stitch. I guess this is how Kitchener makes it look like one continuous piece(?). Here’s an illustration showing two v-stiches per peice using slashes instead of the letter ‘v’:

Before Kitchener:
(side edges)
//// \\
\\ ////
//// \\
\\ ////
(side edges)

After Kitchener:
(side edges)
////
\\ \\
//// ////
\\ \\
-----////
(side edges)

Ok. Here’s the problem I encountered – after I grafted the pieces using Kitchener, I went to seam on a sleeve and found that one side edge had an extra half a stitch compared to the other side edge.

Does anyone follow this? Any comments? Mostly I want to make sure I’m doing things correctly, and maybe learn something about when certain techniques are better/worse in certain cases.

Well thanks for any comments!

:hot:

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It would be helpful if you could post a pic. I am not good at visualizing without the aid of the picture. Sorry!

3

You’re right that grafting the two pieces together will be kind of offset, but I’m not sure the half stitch is going to make a difference.

sue

4

http://www.studioknits.com/bookpage57.htm

If you go through this site it tells you how to avoid that half stitch at each side. It has a lot of info so you have to find where it is exactly. Hope that helps.