You made your first sweater!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Guess what, now you have to put it together. Sewing seams is really not that hard once you get the hang of it. I like to use the Mattress stitch for sewing my seams....but....there are ways of putting this "thing" together.
We had a customer who had a pattern that she knitted and the pattern was dated from 1963. This pullover pattern was not hard to knit, but the way that she seamed it together created a small disaster.
According to the directions (again from 1963) she sewed her shoulder seams first (that was correct), then they told her to sew the side seams, then sew the sleeve seams and then sew the sleeves to the sweater (wrong, try again!)
It is much easier to sew your sleeves in first, (after you sewed your shoulders), then you have one seam going from the bottom of the sweater to the sleeve edge.
When she seemed it the way she was instructed, the cap of the sleeve puckered. This made it look ickky (if that's a word.) I had to pull out all of her seams except the shoulders and then reseam it. It took longer to pull it out then it was to sew it up!!
So (or sew), my friends, if you haven't learned how to sew your seams together and you need some help, come visit us if you are local. If you are not local, then go to your LYS (local yarn shop) and ask for advice. If you really don't want to sew your seams, we will!
Happy Stitching (or seaming!)
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