A while ago, I used the sewing machine to reinforce the steek of David's sweater. It's superwash yarn, so a sewing machine reinforcement was necessary.
I let David cut the steek, but he only cut for a few seconds before being too freaked out to continue.
So I cut the rest of the steek with little difficulty.
After I knit the collar and picked up stitches for the button band, I took a second look at those steeked edges. I had allowed 6 stitches for the steek, and the extra fabric looked a little messy to me.
I decided that a re-steek was necessary! To make sure I sewed a straight line this time (the first one was not so straight), I ran a yarn in contrasting color up through the stitches I wanted to reinforce. You can see the green yarn in the picture above.
The re-steeking gave me a much cleaner look.
The only things that remain before I declare this sweater finished are a blocking, a buttoning, and a photo shoot!
It does look much cleaner after your redo!
Posted by: tiennie | March 09, 2009 at 11:12 PM
What a great solution! I can't wait to see the modeled shots!
Posted by: stacey | March 10, 2009 at 07:02 AM
ohhhhh can't wait to see it!
Posted by: Kelly | March 10, 2009 at 08:18 AM
Looking forward to seeing the FO! Interesting that even a non-knitter was freaked out at cutting a steek.
Posted by: Brenda | March 10, 2009 at 01:16 PM
nice job!
can't wait to see it.
Posted by: leslie | March 19, 2009 at 09:02 AM
I like how he was sufficiently freaked out about the steeking. This is going to be fabulous when all is said and done, I can't wait to see it!
Posted by: nova | March 20, 2009 at 08:35 PM
Just so you all don't think I was too squeamish, I stopped cutting because Kristy did the first steeking line crooked, and I realized that the line of stitches I was cutting was about to go past the reinforcement line. I did not want to be responsible for that! And look, it was crooked and had to be resteeked!
Posted by: David | March 29, 2009 at 05:35 PM