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Re: Two questions

 

Thank you for the thoughts.?

Connie, I don't think reinforcing the buttonhole will be enough. The knitted fabric gives more than the woven fabric so the buttonhole is bearing the brunt of the stretch. The skirt isn't even tight fitting but the buttonholes have stretched.?

I am going to look into buttonhole elastic and if it doesn't look good, I will go with the muslin. I can make the buttonholes on my machine - good opportunity to play with that part of the machine. But I think black buttonhole elastic will be less obvious.

As for the Swan, Mary, yes that is the one that inspired me. I will be working the buttonhole in the cardigan front and in the facing simultaneously, like AsaW has done?
She knit it back and forth though and I want to knit it in the round and steek it. So my facing will be knit in the same direction and at the same time as the body. No purl row. The cut edge will be at the end of the facing and get turned in.

Regarding the humongous Wild Apple, you might want to do what Steph did. She took in the side and armhole seams (I think) by mattress stitching further into the sweater. After she checked that everything was OK, she cut off the excess. I hope I'm remembering it correctly. She should weigh in.?



On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 8:06 AM mary_007usa via Groups.Io <sewgood5=[email protected]> wrote:
Jaya,

1.? On the buttonhole issue, all of the ideas here seem fine to me, but I'd probably do the fabric or ribbon, mostly because it would be easily reversible.

2.? You've brought up an interesting question with the cardigan.? So if I understand this correctly, you'd be working buttonholes directly into the patterning and body of the sweater, right?? That could look really lovely.? When you knit the facing, you may want to consider putting in a row of purl stitches to facilitate the facing turning to the front.? Knitting that facing from picked up stitches will be so much easier.? Drop down those two needles sizes though (I write this although I realize you probably know a ton about fibery things)

I've only knit two Bohussies, but I recall the front bands are knit bottom up from a few stitches reserved at the bottom and then it's sewed on, right?

I found one Swan with no bands, but she didn't insert buttonholes.? Is this the one you're thinking about??

Mary

Maryu



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