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  5. You need a sainthood, Cheryl!!! For us knitters! I was freaking out about my two seperate pieces! I’m lunapiero on youtube 🙂 I have a crewneck pattern, so I now know what to do! Yay!!
    I wish I had teachers like you when I was in school 🙂
    Thank you SO much!!

  6. Not exactly sainthood certainly, but I do enjoy what I do. You are sooooo welcome and thank you for this kind comment.

  7. I have a quick question for you. What size crochet hook should I use? (I think your way would be much easier for me than the traditional three needle bind off. Haha!)

  8. One that’s appropriate to the yarn size you’re using, or that is the equivalent to your knitting needle size. There are charts for this, I think, though I have never used one. Check out the Craft Yarn Council site. I typically use a ‘J’ for worsted weight.

  9. Thank you so much for the help, Cheryl! Hope you and your loved ones are having a truly wonderful season!! <3

  10. Thank you Erin and you are so welcome. We are, in fact, having a grateful and loving time. I wish the same for you and yours.

  11. Well darn I didn’t think about leaving a long tail on the back piece for knitting the shoulders. I have been blindly doing as you say & shut off my brain. No big problem but it would have been nice. Anyhoo, is there any chance you can add a graphic to the video to mention leaving a long tail for those of us who can’t think for themselves? Haha

  12. Thanks for pointing this out Chris! I’ve done several of these type videos and I don’t always remember what I say where . . . actually, I often don’t remember what I said where. I’ll see if I can’t add an annotation on screen or in the notes. YouTube recently changed how you add notes to videos.

  13. 1. I found the crochet hook shoulder join BRILliANT. However, as a left hander, I choose to work from the left side across center, ending at right side. It seems like the stitches are ‘backwards’ for me … Nevertheless, it worked beautifully. Any advice?
    2. I wasn’t sure how to end and begin each row for easy sewing together, so I slipped the first stitch and knitted every last stitch on every purl and knit rows. Better suggestion?
    Thanks for a wonderful learning opportunity. How can we keep this video for the future?

  14. Hi Cynthia.
    1) It doesn’t matter which direction it goes. Turn the sweater around and you’ll see that that seam is bidirectional :D.
    2) I personally just keep the end sts in stockinette for things that I’m going to seam or pick up. I use the edge you describe, or a variation of it, with edges that will not be seamed as for a scarf or shawl.
    3) Hope that YouTube stays in business for a bit. 😀

  15. Hi Cheryl
    Thank you so much for this course – it’s amazing. I am knitting a baby’s sweater and have started with the front which has a crew neck (the back is in two pieces with buttons). It has sloped shoulders and set in sleeves. I wish to do the three needle bind off on the shoulders and have just completed the short row shaping on the shoulders which looks fantastic. However, because the left leaning slope starts with a purl row and the right leaning starts on a knit row I am one row shorter on the right leaning side. Have I done something wrong or is this how it should be ? I do hope you can understand what I’m trying to say – I’m not sure I have expressed it very well !
    Many thanks
    Mary

  16. Because you’re working in different directions as you’re shaping, neckline and shoulder shapings are usually one row different in number. There is a way to compensate for that but I’ve never seen a pattern that does it. I’ve done it on occasion. Don’t worry about it. No one will notice the difference, even you, once it’s all put together. 😀

  17. Hi Cheryl,
    I am very much a beginning knitter so although you are an excellent teacher I had some problems at this stage.

    After finishing front did you cut both balls of yarn from piece? How do you secure the cut ends?

    Also, after binding off back of neck I still had extra stitch on right needle. Do you just work that into shoulder seam?

  18. Whenever you cut a yarn make sure to leave it 4 to 6 inches long so that you can work it into the seams when you’re doing your finishing. As for the extra st, depending on how it connects to the rest of the knitting, you can usually just cut the yarn and draw the yarn through it.

    Did you watch all of the series before you started? As a real beginner that might give you more context to know what’s going to happen later and why, for example, you want to cut long ends on your yarns.

    Hope this helps.

  19. Dear Cheryl,

    I’ve finally reached the shoulder seams of my granddaughter’s Bluebird jacket designed by DROPS, so your video about seaming with a crochet hook is so timely and helpful. I had watched this series of videos before, and I’m so delighted they continue to be available for review!!

    I trust your Thanksgiving was blessed,
    Carolyn

  20. Oh good grief, Carolyn. I finally got around to checking comments on this site. Now I remember that you sent me an email with a photo. I remember admiring it! I’ll go back and find it again. I was quite distracted there for a while.

  22. I am soooo embarassed!! I’m so sorry! I posted and now I can’t find where. I didn’t follow your instructions and watch all the videos before starting, then asked a question that was clearly answered in the video. The directions are so clear and I’m now doing a better job of looking for and following your instructions. 🙂 This has been so enjoyable for me. I bought your book and it’s a whole new way of thinking of knitting. I’ve been strictly a ‘pattern follower knitter’; I’m almost 72 years old and very excited to be moving into new knitting adventures!

  23. No need for embarrassment. I used to play a horrible trick on my advanced high school Expository Writing students. I told them verbally to read all the way through a test before starting it and typed that at the top of page 1. They had to do it in ink. The last instruction at the bottom of page 2 was that they were only to answer the odd-numbered questions. For every even-numbered question I would subtract rather than add the worth of it. Meaner than dirt I sometimes am, but I wanted to train them to follow directions because I was getting them ready to go to college composition classes.

  24. It doesn’t really matter which way you go. Just start where you have the tail.

  25. If you mentioned to be careful that you don’t twist the front when joining the shoulder seams, I obviously missed it! Ha Ha. It’s frog pond time! Rip It! Rip It!

    (Trying to send you a picture of my joined shoulders with one side twisted because I didn’t check that they were both right before joining! If you send me an email address, I can send the pic.)

  27. Perfect. Just what I was looking for. Thank you for posting this. Love the use of the crochet hook when the needles get awkward.

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