I have seen a few patterns for babies that say they are seamless… If you are making legs for like overalls or sleepers, how do you do it then? If you use the standard method of joining the legs together, you still end up with a square hole which you have to seam together at the end- so not seamless then is it?
Good question. To me seamless means no seaming. I’ve not knitted a one piece baby garment with legs so have no experience to hark back to. I do know that seamless sweaters can have holes that have to be closed under the arm. Are you looking at a specific pattern you could share here?
I have done a seamless bear and holes at the arms and legs were a problem. I darned them on the inside.
Depends on the pattern and method, I suppose. For example, one leg could be knit in the round, with increases as you move from ankle to crotch, then the live stitches for the top of thigh placed on hold (yarn, cord, cable, etc) so you don’t lose any. Then start the second leg as you did the first, in the round from ankle to thigh (oh lorte autocorrect, never has a legit word in modern English been spelled ‘thihg’).
When you get to the top of the thihg, you will knit both the live stitches from the second leg that are already on your needle and the stitches from the first leg that are on hold, into one seamless round so you can do the crotch and hips and waist.
But! Before you put all the stitches together from both legs, you might only knit the stitches from the inside of the thigh tubes so that creates a crotch that would be comfortable and fit (instead of ending up with chaps for the baby). The crotch would be arching like a smooth “n”.
Then after that you would add on the other stitches. When you move from two smaller, to one large round, the smaller rounds open into forming the larger.
It sounds complicated, but take it one step at a time, and it is not.
So no seams! Just picking up the stitches that are already waiting for you on the cord from the first leg. Depending on how you make your increases, you can get a nice smooth fabric with no holes and no lumps.
Does that make sense for you? Sometimes I know what i mean but it isn’t always clearly explained
Debra
Thanks Debra! 