Looking at the body, you'll see a checked knit area down the middle - that's called the steek, and that is what is cut apart. There is an edge stitch between it and the pattern area, where I'll pick up the stitches for the band.
The yarn is "sticky" - it won't unravel (I can attest to this, having had to do some un-knitting :-) ), so it can be cut right between the 4th and 5th stitches of the 8-stitch steek.
And here it is:
Now I need to buy a longer 3mm circular needle to pick up all 379 of those band stitches...
2 comments:
Steeking sounds perilously close to stinking.
Cool technique, though. I've forwarded your post to my sister the knit-geek.
Easy short ride sometime? Lemme know.
Lynne, that is so pretty - but you must have the patience of a saint for all that work!
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