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raglan seamsDo I need to do anything special with them when making up?
Both the sleeves and the front and back pieces (it's a cardigan, don't know if that makes a difference) have a three stitch decrease at the beginning of the raglan shaping, and I'm not quite clear which of those bits gets sewn (..sewed?) to which.
I can't find anything much on ye olde Google, so I am probably going to go for my usual "start poking it with a needle and hope for the best" (I ought to try that on my commute) but thought I would just ask in case there's anything obvious I'm missing.
I've only got the making up and the button band to do  and Treacodactyl is under contract to make me some buttons  ... my first ever "garment" (as opposed to hats, gloves etc) for myself!
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mattress stitch?
start from the underarm decreases, the seams of sleeve and body should be equal length, clip them together in a couple of places if your work is heavy so it doesn't stretch out
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Yep, mattress stitch, that's it - I actually quite enjoy it 
| Quote: | | start from the underarm decreases |
OK, that sounds familiar..do I leave those decreases (well actually now I think of it, they are cast off stitches) until the end? They'll sit right under the arm.
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start by attaching those.
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I have knitted up the seams in the past. Seems to give a stronger join, makes it feel like one unit instead of make a load of bits THEN start again and sew things together 
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| toggle wrote: | | start by attaching those. |
Oh no, now I'm confoozled again...attaching them to what? The sleeve corners to each other? Or, the cast off stitches on the sleeve to the cast off stitches on the front or back...then up the raglan, down the other side, and attach the other side of cast off stitches together?
I'm sure it will make sense once I steel myself to doing it (which is likely to be tomorrow as I have a fairly free day) so I am just making a song and dance about nothing I expect
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1. attach the decreases of the sleeve to the deceraces on the body, sew up from the underarm to the neck.
2. repeat this 4 times until you have all pieces attached together, approximately in a cross shape.
3. do neck, usually with a raglan, there's a knitted on neck band.
4. sew up other 2 seams, from the wrist to underarm, continuing down the body.
you get a little X of seam under the armpit
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Oooh, thank you, that's brilliant. I shall set off confidently tomorrow now. The button band (is that the right thing) is a bit freaky (in my opinion) - you knit a strip of ribbing (first and last stitch are garter, I suppose that stops it curling up?) and sew it on as you knit it, all the way around from the bottom up the front, round the neck and back down the other side.
Thanks very much Toggle.
Sorry gz, I missed your comment first time round. I'm going to take Toggle's advice for this one as I'm comfortable with mattress stitch but would like to know about the knitting up for the future - do you need to do that as you make the pieces and not cast them off?
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there is a method of knitting button bands on as you go.
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| Bugs wrote: | | do you need to do that as you make the pieces and not cast them off? |
I knot raglan sweaters in the round, bottom up. You knit a tube, add on most of the stitches from two more tubes and then do the raglan decreases as part of the pattern, so that the tube gets narrower towards the hole in the top. It's almost the only type of sweater I knit, now. No sewing (tiny bit of grafting under the arms)
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Right arm sewn to back as per Toggle's checklist and it looks like it might all fit together I can even see how it will form a "cross" once all the bits are attached around the arms.
WW...I quite enjoy the sewing bit
Better get a move on...
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I'll pop some in the post to you. I hate it!
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