Exercise #4

Attaching Sleeve to Garment

Using the sample from Exercise #3.

Step one: Figuring the amount of stitches to pick up to start sleeve

· The best way to do this...is to measure your swatch or sample.

· Gently pin swatch to ironing board.

· Measure the sts to a cm.

· Measure one long edge (Remember the seam is your shoulder...you want to measure the whole "armhole")

Example:

I measure and there is 3 sts to a centimetre....I measure and the swatch is 11 cm long.

· Take your sts/cm and multiply it by the length of your swatch

Example:

3 sts x 11 cm = 33

· using this number (if odd go up to next number), divide it evenly and pull out that number of stitches easch side of 0

example:

33 moves up to 34. Pull out needles 17 - 0 - 17

· These are the needles you will use to do you sleeve.

· Carefully....with wrong side facing you...Working on the left side of your sample place your 3 prong transfer tool between the last row of stitches and the second last row of stitches on the long side of your sample... place the transfer tool into the needles L17, L16, L15 and hook the edge of the sample onto the needles... push back to the needle bed. Now go to the right side of the sample and repeat the process. You should have three needles on both sides hooked into the sample....

· Now to make it easier to pick up the remaining stitches...push the other needles that are empty back tout of work...all the way back to the back of the bed.

· Starting in the middle pick up three stitches on tool and put on center three stitches

· If you pick up the middle parts of the remaining sections you will find it easier to pick up the rest of the stitches evenly...this is a small sample but when you are working with 160 sts for an actual sleeve..going to the middle of each section to pick up the sts keeps the work evenly distributed on the needles.

· Continue in this manner till all the needles are full...you may find the body looks a little slack but it will not look that way when you are finished.

Knitting on the Sleeve:

· With all the stitches in NWP close the latches of the needles... (there is nothing in the hooks but that is Ok. This prevents the latches from catching on the access material of the sweater body)

· COR, attach MY to carriage and SLOWLY K across the row.

· You should have all the needles filled with a stitch.

Decreasing for sleeve:

· K 2 rows and with the three prong transfer tool pick up the last three sts on carriage side and move them in one stitch. so there are 2 stitches on the third needle in from the edge. This is called a fashion decrease....

· Make sure the empty needle is put back into out of work position

· Repeat on other side

· K 2 rows

· Continue these 2 rows until there are 16 sts left

Adding the eyelet hem to your sleeve

· K next row with both RC and MY in carriage.. so both knit the row.

· Change to MT -2

· K 11 rows

· Make eyelets. K 1 row at MT

· K 12 rows at MT -2

· Pick up stitches that contain both main yarn and ravel cord. Put needles in NW

· K 1 row at MT, SLOWLY.

· Cast off.

· Pull out ravel cord after finishing

· Block sleeve sample

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