{"id":896,"date":"2009-02-16T16:15:09","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T06:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.randomknits.net\/?p=896"},"modified":"2009-02-16T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T06:15:09","slug":"steeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/?p=896","title":{"rendered":"Steeking"},"content":{"rendered":"

So yesterday morning, I decided that I was overthinking this whole steek thing, and that millions of people had done it before and it was a proven method. Right?
\nAnd all that knitting I’d been doing wasn’t going to unravel. I should just stop stuffing about, and just do it. Right?
\nI almost believed myself. So I decided to just do a little test run on my swatch. What if I did it wrong, and I stuffed up the whole sweater? So out came the trusty Janome, and I did a couple of rows of machine stitching on the pretty little swatch.
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\nTwinkie “helped”.
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\nI read a few blogs before I decided on my steek. Eunny<\/a> had some great information about the whole process, but doesn’t actually recommend machine stitching. Her recommended methods are handsewing or crocheting the steek. I was too impatient to handsew it, and I can’t crochet for crap, so I looked about a bit more, and decided to go ahead with the machine sewing. I chose a narrow zigzag stitch rather than a straight stitch, because of years of sewing knit fabrics has taught me that a zigzag stitch has better “give” than a straight seam.
\nThen, I cut it. I had to take a few very, very deep breaths, then I started snipping.
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\nI do believe that at that point I may have exclaimed “#%^&!! It worked!” Even the back looked nice.
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\nThat made me feel more confident about the whole process, so I took to Autumn Rose with the machine.
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\nAs this was a little more important than the little swatch, and would see more wear, I did actually sew each side twice.
\nI was tempted to do it 10 times or more, but figured that it might be overkill.
\nTo make sure I only cut what I was supposed to, I put a magazine inside the sweater. I didn’t want to snip a hole in the back, and watch it slowly unravel. Then, I started to snip. Carefully, tiny little snips with nice sharp, small scissors.
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\nYes, I was concentrating.
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\nAnd then it was done. Pulling it apart was a little scary.
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\nAll in all, it wasn’t so bad. It was over quickly, and I didn’t cut any of the wrong threads. (!)
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\nAnd suddenly, it looked like a neckline!! And I could finally try it on to make sure it fit.
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\nIt fits! It didn’t fall apart! I’m loving it sick! (TM Rosered<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So yesterday morning, I decided that I was overthinking this whole steek thing, and that millions of people had done it before and it was a proven method. Right? And all that knitting I’d been doing wasn’t going to unravel. I should just stop stuffing about, and just do it. Right? I almost believed myself. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.randomknits.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}