Steeking is Scary (but very fun)

I am knitting a cardigan for Brielle. It is a Starsky Jr. cardigan which has a pretty leaf cable down the front. I don't like using a cable needle, I prefer to use travelling stitches, and I find it much much easier to do this from the right side of the work. So, I decided to knit the jacket in one piece in the round for the body. To do this I had to Steek the work.

I joined the front of the work with 4 stitches down the middle - two purl stitches down the very middle bordered by a knit through the back loop either side of them (ala EZ in Knitter's Almanac). I also cast on 4 stitches after the initial castoff on the arm holes and did likewise.


I sewed three lines of very small machine sewed stitches down each line of ktbl stitches - I was using a very slippery cotton/bamboo yarn and it was likely to pull out with a crocheted edging or a single sewed line.

Then, I put a book down the middle (so as to not cut the back piece like I would otherwise). Got the scissors out......

And started cutting........
Oh my goodness, my heart was racing cutting into perfectly good knitting like that. I was so worried about doing it wrong and stuffing it all up. But it ended up just fine.......