Topic: stranded knitting
I have polished off the neck knitting. Above you see the outside results of the 2nd steeking job for the neck, and the nicely curved pickup line, along with the solid color facing that is waiting to be sewn down (but not until after the front cardigan steek is done). I hid any final decreases in the visible purled round. So, yes, the outside looks neat, but take a look at how the curve was handled, and the final braided finishing of the cut open neck steek:
I have resented having ANY bulk in the neck hems from previous neck steeking jobs, and decided a braided steek finish was the way to go. After picking up the curve for the neck line, the steek is cut open and all ends unraveled to the picked up edge, where 3 at a time are braided together and cut off at 2". These braided ends will be hidden inside the neck hem when it is sewn down later.
No sewing machine and no reinforcement stitching. I am relying on the hairy aspect of HEILO yarn to keep things orderly.
Now on to the cardigan steek, which is on the agenda for today.
Yesterday evening at Knit Nite, I crocheted a steek reinforcement line up and down both sides of the center stitch.
Two things to report:
- ...only the simple knitted steek was easy to manage...all the others were a nightmare of confusion. The twisted knit steek was not so bad once I got another sharper-head crochet hook to use.
- ...I first made the crocheted stitches with sock yarn. It turned out to be SO slippery, that I was afraid it would not hold the stitches after cutting, so I went back to using HEILO.
