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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

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hesira
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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

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Wooly

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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hesira

Should I bind off, and pick up stitches around the neck hole

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

Hesira

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hesira

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

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Wooly

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

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hesira

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

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mirjam

No, Mirjam,

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

Hesira

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hesira

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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mirjam

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

Hesira

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hesira

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

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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

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Richard Eney

thank you Tamar , i see something on my computer which i don`t understand , thus i will have to wait for my Expert My son , to come and have a look in the mean time i will just "look in through the google window !!!:>:>:>

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mirjam

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