I came across this
youtube video for putting in a shoulder seam in
two parts. Worth looking at but that's not how I do things.
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| Finished side straight off the machine: not yet washed, blocked, press or anything. |
No. So this is what I did:
Knit my back and took it off with a long circ needle.
knit the front and put the shoulder onto decker combs, (a garter bar would be OK too)
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| Back goes onto the needles, wrong side faces the machine, public side faces me, BEHIND the latches. |
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| Front goes on to the open latches |
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| Flip the decker to vertical while holding the work so the stitch all roll onto the needle |
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| Add a little weight on both pieces. Pull ALL the needles back so the back stitches are now on the front |
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| just like this |
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| I did bind off around the gate pegs |
As with everything, how different people do the same thing always interests me. Depending on how firm the shoulder seam has to be, how stretchy the fabric, will determine as to how to finish off the live stitches, back stitch, make the last row MT+1 or 2 and latching off, lots of scope for what the design dictates. And it was easy with the decker comb and if the back was taken off with a garter bar and flipped, then it would be really quick.
The photo of it finished was very blurry, so I'll take another one and come back and put it in tomorrow. Which I've just done. Here they are straight off the machine, not yet washed, pressed or anything but I think it is a nice tidy and quick seam.
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| Finished underside |
2 comments:
This is how I join shoulders too and is a perfect way. Sometimes I use a back stitch bind off if I want a stretchier seam than using the latch tool. But I mostly use the latch tool for BO too. Wonderful job!
Thanks Sandy, I thought it was worth trying too. It will be how my shoulders will be done from now on too!
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