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Don’t Scream, It’s Time To Seam

Lesson 5 - October 15, 2020

Don’t Scream, It’s Time To Seam

If you've always avoided seaming and even always knitted projects in the round just to avoid seaming, the next step of this project will help you seam fearlessly starting now.

You'll first prep your seams with scrap yarn so that you'll know exactly which edges get folded and seamed together.

Slipper 7 thumbnail prep seams

Next, you are going to use Mattress stitch to sew your long Garter-stitch strip together, block by block.

This technique will help you in the future, when you want to make a sweater with set-in sleeves, for example.

Slipper 8 thumbnail seam with mattress st

Head to Chapter 4 - Seam Your Slippers to watch my in-depth videos about how to fold and seam every edge of these slippers.

By the way, your slippers will be HUGE after you seam them. This is normal! They will shrink down when felting.

Lastly, in this chapter I encourage you (and show you how) to weave in all those ends without delay once you get your huge slipper seamed up.

If you get stuck or have questions, comment on this lesson and let me know!

Today's Step to Get Involved:

Leave a comment below and let us know if you were able to fold your slippers correctly and if you have any questions on Mattress stitch!

In a week, I'll send you an email walking you through the fun felting process, plus tips for decorating your slippers.

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  1. Hi. After yarn arriving a week late then running short (I used 2 colors and both were a block short!) Drove 1.5 hours to state capital to buy new yarn to start completely over ( can’t tell a lie, I got some serious Christmas shopping done too!) I have finished 1 set! Looking forward to seeing how felting goes!

  2. Wendy Billingsley

    Mistakes I made today:
    1. Realized I knitted my square seven on the wrong side of square two—-super fun.
    2. Cut my yarn after finishing my last square and then realized I hadn’t done the bind off. I wasn’t even drinking!
    Lol!

  3. Wendy Billingsley

    Liat it always seems like I am that knitter that always screws something up. I feel like I have made every knitting mistake out there. In this case… I knew I made a mistake with counting rows on one square but continued on hoping it really wouldn’t matter. Now that I am moving on to the next step…. it looks like a bigger problem. So on square number 2 I miscounted and instead of knitting 34 rows I knit 32. Yep–square 2–the one that is Front and Center!!! I did not realize this until after I knit the next block (of course). Now I am getting ready to attach square 7 and 8. Well guess which block I have to attach 7 to??? Yep–the one that is shorter by 2 rows. So I know I can correct for this by picking up less stitches to match the size of square 7 to square 2. But then I also realize I did the other slipper correctly and that perhaps it will be noticeable that the Front and Center block on one slipper is smaller than the other. So I realized I “could” fix this by basically cutting off square 1 and then knitting the extra 2 rows of square 2 and then re-knit square 1 all over again and bind off. I will post a pic of what I am thinking I could do to easily get the stitches back on the needle. My question is…is it worth it???

    1. Hi Wendy!

      I’m sorry your knitting has been giving you troubles, but please know you are not alone in making mistakes. In fact, the first thing I always joke to my knitting students that I make all the mistakes so they don’t have to. Just the other day I ripped out a sleeve because I cast on way too many stitches. This is all to say – you’re in good company :)

      As for your slipper, you have two options – rip it out and start the two squares over. That way you know everything will seam up exactly as intended. Or, you can ignore it and hoepfully the two rows won’t make the entire slipper too off. My instinct is that you won’t notice if it’s a little funky. However, if you’re a perfectionist you may notice it still.

      You’re doing awesome Wendy! We’re so excited to see where you go from here :)

      1. Wendy Billingsley

        Thank you, Mary Claire! Of course you know I will have to pull out that last square and then add on the rows and then re-knit the last square . Thank you for your encouragement!!!

  4. jane.dobinson@gmail.com

    Well, I did scream a bit but I have finished two pair and they are now ready for felting! I hope it goes well; I’m going to my daughter’s sometime this week to use her top load washer. 🤞

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