Archive of Thread: Set in sleeves Back

2 years ago
I have been practicing set in sleeves using the practice pattern. I discovered something that is very helpful.
When you have hung your armhole and then your sleeve, You then use a piece of garment yarn and pull this yarn through Both stitches in hold. Then you use your carriage and knit a loose row, followed by a bind off ( I use around the gate peg loop/loop bind off).
Here is what I discovered:
When you use the piece of garment yarn to pull through both stitches on hold, put a knot at each end of it. After the sleeve is set in, you can identify this yarn and tighten up the joining quite a bit. This was really helpful for me because I found my machine was having a hard time knitting that row of stitches that you initially pull through both pieces , maybe because I am using a bulky machine and worsted weight yarn. But anyway, I’m sure someone else probably discovered this already, but it is sooo helpful to get the sleeve to look right after it is set in.


Terri

2 years ago
I will give this idea a try. Thanks for passing it on 😀