Description ~ Join as You Go

Most knitters avoid seaming like the plague. When working garment pieces or different colored strips, sewing seams daunting. Learn how to join as you go for many situations, including edgings. Join a new piece to the left of an existing piece, to the right of an existing piece, or to the top or bottom of an existing piece.

Join a new piece to the right, left, top & bottom edges of an old piece. Add a horizontal band to a neckline without sewing. Learn the math for non-matching gauges. Use a new way to gain stitches for the join that adds no bulk.

Materials Needed ~ Join as You Go

• Bring yarns used in homework.

• Needles: Appropriate needles, including circular and double-pointed needles of same size(s) used All homework swatches.

• Also bring smooth piece of contrasting, scrap cotton about 12" same weight as swatches

Homework ~ Join as You Go

With worsted or chunky wt yarn and appropriate needles, make swatch of 12 sts in stockinette st in stripes of 2 rows color A and 2 rows color B for about 16 or 18 rows as follows: Cast on with A. * With B, purl a row and knit a row. With A, purl a row and knit a row. Rep from *, bind off. With worsted or chunky wt yarn and appropriate needles, make swatch of 12 sts in one color for about 16 or 18 rows, bind off.