Seamless Sweater Question
 

Hi Everyone,

I've been knitting my 5 year old a bottom up (as opposed to top down)
seamless yoked sweater with a stranded star pattern. I've pretty much
made the pattern for the sweater up, based on his measurements and my
gauge. Everything has gone well, but I'm at a point where I don't
know what to do.

I've completed everything but the collar/neck. I intend to finish it
off with a 2x2 ribbing, but I realized (a little late in the game)
that the neck ribbing will differ slightly from the sleeve cuffs and
the bottom of the garment because they were begun in ribbing, whereas
the neck will be ended in ribbing. Do you think this will cause a
problem? Should I bind off, and pick up stitches around the neck hole
and apply the ribbing?

My main concern is that his head will fit through the neck opening,
but I don't want that opening to be too large. I know I need to bind
off in ribbing pattern and rather loosely to maintain elasticity, but
I wonder if the neck ribbing will want to roll out, instead of lay
flat. Also, I have achieved the desired number of stitches to make
the collar the appropriate circumference, but it looks way too large.
I'm thinking the ribbing will draw it in, won't it?

I would really be grateful for your insight,

TIA

Hesira

Seamless Sweater Question
 

On Dec 15, 9:34 pm, Wooly nobody@nunya wrote:

EZ would have you decrease to 40% of the chest stitches, then add
ribbing and bind off purlwise.

Put the ribbing on (half hour of work?) and try it on the kid - if the
neck opening is too large you can pull off the ribbing, do a round of
fast decreases, and reknit the ribbing.

It's only knitting :D

Thanks Wooly,

I'm not stressing over it, I just want to finish it tonight, and he's
in bed. I'll try it on him tomorrow.

Hesira

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On Dec 15, 9:12 pm, hesira wrote:


Should I bind off, and pick up stitches around the neck hole
and apply the ribbing?
TIA

Hesira

Uh, doink! Either way, it would be knit from the bottom up, ending
with ribbing, rather than beginning. My mistake.

Hesira

Seamless Sweater Question
 

On Dec 16, 9:23 am, Wooly nobody@nunya wrote:

No, don't bind off, just decrease, make ribbing, bind off :D

Thanks, Wooly. I finished it up this morning and gave it a soak.
It's laid out and drying now. Everything turned out pretty well, but
I may have been a little generous in the sizing. He can always grow
into it.

The McGregor book was so helpful it putting this sweater together.
Thanks again.

Hesira

Seamless Sweater Question
 

On Dec 16, 6:47 pm, hesira wrote:
On Dec 16, 9:23 am, Wooly nobody@nunya wrote:

No, don't bind off, just decrease, make ribbing, bind off :D

Thanks, Wooly. I finished it up this morning and gave it a soak.
It's laid out and drying now. Everything turned out pretty well, but
I may have been a little generous in the sizing. He can always grow
into it.

The McGregor book was so helpful it putting this sweater together.
Thanks again.

Hesira

i see that my answer to this several days ago maybe a week also didn`t
appear,
mirjam

Seamless Sweater Question
 

No, Mirjam,

I never saw a response from you. I'd like to hear what you have to
say.

Hesira


On Dec 18, 2:43 am, wrote:

i see that my answer to this several days ago maybe a week also didn`t
appear,
mirjam

Seamless Sweater Question
 

On Dec 18, 1:06 pm, hesira wrote:
No, Mirjam,

I never saw a response from you. I'd like to hear what you have to
say.

Hesira

On Dec 18, 2:43 am, wrote:



i see that my answer to this several days ago maybe a week also didn`t
appear,
mirjam- Hide quoted text -

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i resent my long post and see it on agent , don`t see it here in
google , so question is DO YOU HESIRA see it now ,,
mirjam [ via google ]

Seamless Sweater Question
 

Not yet, Mirjam. I'll keep an eye out for it. My google has been
acting weird, too.

Hesira

On Dec 18, 5:43 am, wrote:

i resent my long post and see it on agent , don`t see it here in
google , so question is DO YOU HESIRA see it now ,,
mirjam [ via google ]

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On Dec 18, 2:15 pm, hesira wrote:
Not yet, Mirjam. I'll keep an eye out for it. My google has been
acting weird, too.

Hesira

On Dec 18, 5:43 am, wrote:





i resent my long post and see it on agent , don`t see it here in
google , so question is DO YOU HESIRA see it now ,,
mirjam [ via google ]- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I will have toi try and copy it through here or maybe send to some
private person ,,,
mirjam

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In article ,
wrote:
On Dec 18, 2:15 pm, hesira wrote:
Not yet, Mirjam. I'll keep an eye out for it. My google has been
acting weird, too.

Hesira

On Dec 18, 5:43 am, wrote:

i resent my long post and see it on agent , don`t see it here in
google , so question is DO YOU HESIRA see it now ,,
mirjam [ via google ]- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

I will have toi try and copy it through here or maybe send to some
private person ,,,
mirjam

I have a theory about why Mirjam's regular posts aren't coming through.
A long time ago I sent an email to someone whose ISP didn't recognize
me and they thought I was a spammer; they almost blocked the entire
ISP that I have my account with, because of one post they were suspicious
of! Maybe the man who floods so many groups with posts complaining
about mi5 had flooded an intermediate server and some server somewhere
blocked everything coming through there. If Mirjam's regular ISP has
to send through that one, maybe everything is getting blocked both ways.

=Tamar