Monday, June 23, 2008

Siamese Sleeves

Today I was reading my back digests of KBTH and read with interest Lucy Neatby's method for knitting two fair isle sleeves in the round using steeks. Quite an ingenious method I must say. Anne
shows how she did it with her lovely fair isle.Perhaps I'll give it whirl whenever I get back to the unfinished Rona.I'm sure Carol M would like to see it finished!

Lucy Neatby - Tradewind Knitwear Designs - Steeks
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4 comments:

Sharon said...

Take a look at what Leigh has done with the Siamese sleeves
http://leighsfiberjournal.blogspot.com/2008/06/technically-not-fair-isle.html
She caught my attention!

Anonymous said...

Can't decide whether or not I like this technique. It looks like a pretty painless way to knit sleeves, but sewing the seams afterward looks annoyingly fiddly. Hmm.

Jenny Girl said...

I have not done fir isle yet, but the thought of steeks makes me shudder. I know it works out in the end, but I just haven't acepted that yet.

cyndy said...

Thanks for the link--I've not yet attempted to steek--but one of these days.....