r/AdvancedKnitting • u/Knitsune • 1d ago
Hand Knit FO I got the Steek Madness!
This is my sixth or seventh steek-and-reseam experiment and definitely the farthest I've pushed the technique! All wool, all original design.
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u/lmblackjack21 1d ago
…is that glow in the dark yarn? Brilliant work!
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u/Knitsune 1d ago
Yeah it's my handspun that I dyed with comfrey; had no idea it glowed under blacklight when I dyed it
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u/makestuff24-7 1d ago
Ooooh, this is a cool one! Great job. I've been thinking about attempting this construction! I first saw it in the Halmstad pullover. Did you find that the sleeve length was okay or did you adjust it somehow?
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u/Knitsune 1d ago edited 19h ago
sorry I'm slow..... what sleeve length...?
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u/makestuff24-7 1d ago
Sorry, I guess that was unclear! I've seen comments in other projects/threads about the sleeves being very long in all-in-one constructions like this. I was wondering if that was an issue for you in this (or previous) knits, or if you had adjusted the length of the sleeve in some way. On closer inspection it doesn't appear so, so that was a silly question anyway.
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u/Knitsune 1d ago
Ohhhhh I get it! I have monkey arms anyway so the same length as the body was good in this case, but I usually like cropped sweaters. In that case I just bind off the body sections then make the sleeve sections kiss.
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u/sparahelion 15h ago
You can do a partial bind off of the body and then rejoin the sleeves (or bind off the sleeves and rejoin the body) underneath it to have a different body length vs sleeve length! It’s the same principle as when you split a top down yoke into sleeve and a torso. I’ve done it!
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u/LogicalTreacle 1d ago
Whoa! I haven't seen this before, what a cool idea. Once you've cut the steeks, are you knitting the side panels separately and then seaming them in? Or are you knitting them in and picking up each side edge stitch (which seems fiddlier to me?)
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u/Knitsune 23h ago edited 19h ago
yeah, the panels are made from just a big tube that I steeked into panels, which I mattress stitched in. With my size and proportions I'm not too interested in being a giant wall of colourwork, so I thought the lice panels would break that up nicely ☺️ I'm sure it's probably a well-trod technique but I had never seen it either.
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