Podcast Episode 226 – Not Fooling Me with Those Faux Side Seams!


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12 comments on “Podcast Episode 226 – Not Fooling Me with Those Faux Side Seams!

  1. Try to eat protein at each meal, up to 25 grams each. Cereal alone is not enough for breakfast. It might be if you have 6 smaller meals a day.
    I think that these faux seams might make a top down sweater stay vertical better, and not twist at the bottom.

  2. I vaguely recall someone saying that the faux side seams help with twisting of the body when a garment is knitted in the round. But I don’t really see how that’s going to help, assuming it’s an actual problem, since you are still knitting in a spiral.

  3. E. Zimmerman made a faux seam by dropping a stitch down the side then hooking it back up. I forget the details except she warns about doing it consistently while knitting. If you do it for too many rows at once, it risks being too tight.

    • She did it strictly for esthetics. It doesn’t add structurally to the garment.

  4. Several years ago, I attended Meg Swansen’s Knitting Camp (Meg is Elizabeth Zimmermann’s daughter) in Wisconsin. That is where I learned about faux side seams. With this method one ladders down from the underarm hole and then use the crochet hook to pick up stitches knit-wise. It is really easy, and when the garment is blocked or laundered and re-blocked one knows where the side seams are and the layout is symmetrical side-to-side.

  5. Faux seams are suppose to add structure to the garment. I do not find that a faux seam is necessary.

  6. Hi Ladies: A few podcasts ago, someone mentioned wanting to purl in the round only (inside out). Andrea Wong has instructions on Peruvian Knitting and she does show how to purl in the round only. Thanks for your fun blogs and videos Pat in Georgia.

  7. I recall adding a faux side seam by purling the stitches that would be where the seams fall. It was part of the pattern.

  8. There is a third was to soften the transition from one color to another. You alternate skeins of each color for a few rows, say 4-6. That way you don’t have to use a different weight yarn. Provides a less subtle transition than the other techniques perhaps

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