Look Ma, Seams!

Today was a huge day for me as a knitter.



I hunkered down with The Knitters Book of Finishing Techniques by Nancie Wiseman and resolved not to stand up until I had set in the sleeves for my Bella Paquita.



I stared at the diagrams and read the text over and over until I understood the weaving stitch (which I gather is the same as mattress stitch?).

I did everything she told me to: I pressed the pieces, I worked on a flat surface, I carefully pinned it together...

And it worked!!!



I finally, properly LEARNED HOW TO SEAM!



My seams are nowhere near perfect, but they're also not the glaringly awful results I got with my previous haphazard stabby sutures technique. As in, I would wear these sleeves in public.



I have only a few more days to finish this sweater for the knitalong, but I am just thrilled to have overcome what has thus far been my greatest knitting obstacle!