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Top ndoen sleeve = hemmed edge.
Hi All,
I'm making a baby sweater with a hemmed edge. The sleeves are grafted to the body and knitted top down. Since I'm fairly new at this, I'm not sure about turning the hem. When I do it from the bottom up, I have waste yarn to help me identify the row that I need, but I'm not sure how to do this on a top down sleeve. Any tips for making sure I have the right row evenly across. Thanks in advance. Nanci |
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Top ndoen sleeve = hemmed edge.
Hi Nancy,
A picot hem would be nice on the sleeve of a baby sweater. You just make eyelets all across the row (every other stitch is transferred to the needle beside it, the empty needles are left in working position, and when you knit the next row, you get a lovely row of little holes) Knit about 3 or 4 more rows, bind off, and when you turn the hem at the holes, it makes a nice picot edge. If you don't like that idea, you could always lay a length of waste yarn across the open needles at the place where you want to turn the hem, and it will get knitted in; (maybe hang clothespins from each end to keep it fairly taut) Then you can pull it out when you have the hem finished. I'm sure you will figure something out! Peggy in NC Nanci E Donacki wrote: Hi All, I'm making a baby sweater with a hemmed edge. The sleeves are grafted to the body and knitted top down. Since I'm fairly new at this, I'm not sure about turning the hem. When I do it from the bottom up, I have waste yarn to help me identify the row that I need, but I'm not sure how to do this on a top down sleeve. Any tips for making sure I have the right row evenly across. Thanks in advance. Nanci |
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Top ndoen sleeve = hemmed edge.
Peggy,
Thanks so much for your suggestions. I'll give them a try with some waste yarn and see what is easiest to do. Id not, I can just do a standard sleeve witha picot hem and then graft it to the body. I was also talking with a friend of mine today and she suggested snaps instead of buttons for this cardigan, since I decided to make it like a blanket rather than a standard length sweater. I may just make anextra button band and see which works best. Thanks again for all you suggestions. Nanci wrote in message oups.com... Hi Nancy, A picot hem would be nice on the sleeve of a baby sweater. You just make eyelets all across the row (every other stitch is transferred to the needle beside it, the empty needles are left in working position, and when you knit the next row, you get a lovely row of little holes) Knit about 3 or 4 more rows, bind off, and when you turn the hem at the holes, it makes a nice picot edge. If you don't like that idea, you could always lay a length of waste yarn across the open needles at the place where you want to turn the hem, and it will get knitted in; (maybe hang clothespins from each end to keep it fairly taut) Then you can pull it out when you have the hem finished. I'm sure you will figure something out! Peggy in NC Nanci E Donacki wrote: Hi All, I'm making a baby sweater with a hemmed edge. The sleeves are grafted to the body and knitted top down. Since I'm fairly new at this, I'm not sure about turning the hem. When I do it from the bottom up, I have waste yarn to help me identify the row that I need, but I'm not sure how to do this on a top down sleeve. Any tips for making sure I have the right row evenly across. Thanks in advance. Nanci |
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