… that struck fear into my heart recently:
“Join right shoulder seam.”
I know that my fear of seaming is completely irrational — it’s not that difficult, rarely takes as long as I think it will and usually ends well — but for some reason, it’s still the number one reason why it takes me so long to finish any project that needs it.
Feeling a little guilty about the amount of knitting that I’ve been doing for me whilst Steven’s argyle jumper has been languishing unfinished, I decided this week that I was just going to have to be brave and get on with it. I got out my trusty Vogue Knitting, followed their instructions for an “invisible horizontal” seam and tah-dah!
I know it doesn’t exactly look “invisible” but trust me, that’s a really neat seam.
Having successfully conquered the seam, I ploughed on and knitted the neckband.
Next up are the armbands and then:
Join left shoulder seam and neckband seam.
Join side seams with mattress stitch.
It’s taken 3½ weeks to get past “Join right shoulder seam”, any bets on how long it will take me to build up the courage to attempt that little section?
You could try one of those little baby blanket things made up of many squares – if anything gets you over the ‘I’m no good at grafting/sewing seems’ then that would! Not sure if I’d want to go to measures as drastic as that myself though…
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