I am very close to finishing the second of the two sleeves for the Aran sweater. What I'm not quite understanding is the finishing of the neckband. This is how it reads
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Those instructions do sound complicated. I'm fairly certain the 'right' is 'right' as the person who is wearing it. Alterations instructions are given that way, for example 'flag patch on right sleeve, centered, 1 inch down'. I know it's the sleeve that the customer will put his right arm into. I laughed when you wrote, "I'll get a glue gun." You'd be surprised how much duck tape and staples I see as customers attempt their own repairs. Fortunately, I don't see much glue!
OK, normally I would say "right side" is the side of the wearer, but reading this I would just start on the right side as I was looking at it (the left side of the wearer) because I've never been able to figure out how to pick up stitches from left to right. Other than that, these instructions seem pretty straightforward. Go with your instincts-- they've been right so far.
The places where you tied the yarn, did you leave dangly bits? Because you could unpick the knots and weave in the ends. If not, just weave in without unpicking. If it's 100% wool you are using, eventually those knots should sort of stick to the rest of the stitches and it should be OK.
So it seems contradictory to you, too, as far as the side you start on and the concept of picking up stitches? Maybe I don't understand what "picking up stitches" really means, because intuitively, I would think you would be picking them up on the left needle to then knit them onto the right needle...I don't understand how one could pick up stitches on the right needle and then knit on the right side of the work. Or is that first bit before the "1st row on the wrong side" somehow knit concomitantly with picking up the stitches? I wish they just showed some damned pictures of this one last part!!
Yes, it's worded very poorly! Basically, when you pick up the stitches you will have a row of knit stitches, or loops that look like little "V"s coming out of the work below, so you'll turn the work after all the stitches are picked up, and it will be the wrong side-- so the picked up stitches don't count as the first row. You've totally got it!
Here's a hypothetical...what if, say, I actually figure out how to pick up the stitches (properly, using the ball of yarn and everything as described in my "Teach Yourself to Knit" book) with the right needle...and then slide them on to the left needle..and if I brought a couple other needles in and kept picking up, transferring in the same manner, and then knitting them back on to the right needle. Would that work?
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The places where you tied the yarn, did you leave dangly bits? Because you could unpick the knots and weave in the ends. If not, just weave in without unpicking. If it's 100% wool you are using, eventually those knots should sort of stick to the rest of the stitches and it should be OK.
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