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october 15, 2003

finishing class

Just in case I wasn't getting tired of finishing yet, class time. We were working on seaming shoulders and picking up stitches for starting sleeves. For seaming shoulders, I usually I prefer weaving the shoulders together. I like the way you can get the stitches to look like they just go right over the shoulder. With a three-needle bind off they're matched but going in different directions. Don't know why, but that bothers me a little. I brought the ladybug sweater to work on while the students practiced their seaming. I really like the shoulders on this one. Dale has you do a couple of purl rows at the top of the shoulder and then seam through the purl bumps, leaving a little purl row at the edge. Cool look for a baby sweater. They have you leave a purl row at the sleeves too.

I've got the sleeves all done (facings sewn down too!) and just have the neck to go to finish. Tonight!

posted by alison at 8:13 am | in bugs!
Comments

Lovely finishing work! First the beautiful Giranimals, now ladybugs. One thing I wish I could take is a finishing class or three. Living in the iddle of nowhere makes that kind of tough, though. Maybe I'll just watch you!

Posted by: Ginny at October 15, 2003 8:16 AM




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