Thank you! This is the only video I have found that CLEARLY explains and shows the wonky stockinette edge and how to seam it with half a stitch.

Thank you, Roxanne, for this great tutorial on the mattress stitch and the tips for a better selvage edge. 👍 😊

This video -- actually ALL of your videos are incredible. I would rather pay a parking ticket rather than sew seams. But NOW I positively look forward to trying the mattress stitch. You manage to present things in such a pleasant, informative and CLEAR way. Many many thanks from London!

Came back to you as it seems you are the best teacher for me! Thank you for your lesson of the mattress stitch, working right now on my first cardigan ever. ❤

Your one of the best knitting instructors on youtube ❤️ thank you so much for your help. So precise, so clear and so informative.

Thank you for the lovely detailed instructions. You can see exactly where to pick up the stitches.

I see this was 4 hrs ago but I watched today and I thank you for a great instruction. I’ll probably watch this several times

Great teacher. By explaining alternative methods and the ultimate outcome, it give us the choice of how we want to finish our project.

Thank you so much! I agree with the last two commenters very much!!!

Thank you for this clear, concise tutorial. It is a wonderful resource.

You've explained the answer in your video. Love watching your videos. Brilliant advice!

Brilliant! This is the fourth video I’ve watched and the first to give exactly what I was after: a clear and concise explanation of the how and the why of choosing a stitch for my seam. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Your language is very clear and your explanation is perfect.

Thank you! I have shied away from sweaters with seams because I didn't want to mess up my knitting with an ugly seam. So now I'm making a little rabbit toy, and using your wonderful tutorial to learn to seam. There may be a sweater with seams in my future after all! :) Thanks!

Thankyou for the half stitch technique very helpful for small toys.

Thank you so much. It has taken me ages to find a video to show both so I fully understand. Of to finish my nannas mittens she needed me to finish off ☺

Thank you for your great videos. Your information is always so clear and complete. I have learned so much from you.

Informative thank you. I've been knitting for 12 heard but somehow I never learned more than 2 different sewing techniques I'm currently finishing my first cardigan and I'm really proud of it. (I've mostly just made blankets , shawls, stuffed animals , gloves, socks, scarves and ear warmers)

Wow, great video, Roxanne! Knitted seams have not been my friend since I learned to knit. Thank you for giving me renewed confidence to finish my projects right. 💗

Thanks Roxanne, you are my favorite!

OMG!! Such a fantastic tutorial. The best I saw today during my search and the only one that helped me “see” and understand Thank You

Thank you! Was never sure how to sew the ½ stitch seam correctly.

Now it all makes sense!!! Thank you 🙏💕

Thank you! A friend commented that seaming tutorials that use chunky yarn and a different coloured yarn to do mattress stitch rather misrepresent how pieces really look so good to see a realistic demo.

As always, you are an awesome instructor.

Thank you so much for making this clear to me. I also found your tips at the end very helpful!

Thank you, this was giving me a big headache, I was thinking to use a crochet hook and there are lots of people out there teaching this method, but I prefer your method. Unfortunately my yarn is a mix of black and grey tweedy colour, it's very difficult to see the v's on the edge and I have to go to the second stitches on one of the sides for some reason, but it does work and looks good going between the v's for me. Thank you once again now I only have to apply myself and get my sweater done, the sweater was knit in 2 pieces and that's a lot of seaming lol...

Thanks for showing the figure 8. I learned that in a class once (with Shirley Paden), but I forgot how!

This was just what I was looking for! this just helped me stitch up the sides of my tank top - it worked out so beautifully so I had to come back and leave a comment to let you know!

This was very helpful. I just seamed a sweater and had trouble trying to mattress stitch the underside of the sleeves due to decreases . I’m new to this style of seaming. Thank you.

You have answered so many questions about selvages and seaming. Thank you for a great video.

Thank You - you're a great teacher! Enjoy your "Ko-Fi" !

Thanks, Roxanne, for great videos! I would love to see you demonstrate weaving in ends on different fabrics.

Wow. Great instruction n tips. So wish I could purchase many of your videos as if they were ever to become unavailable, I’d be lost.

Thanks for explaining so clearly!!

Excellent video. Thanks

So clear and excellent tips. Thank you. 👍🙂

Great lesson!

Thanks great help.

I find as much as I can, I try to closely emulate the gauge by using the math. Like counting numbers (say half of sleeve sts) and do the rows/sts gauge calculation to see how many rows down from the sleeve centre I should be. I HATE drying & pinning before sowing, so as long as I’m not a HUGE number off, I count down the approximate number of rows and begin joining my sleeve attachment there while having in periodically pinned in the right place, every couple of inches or so.

Terrific

fantastic video

I need the easiest yet attractive method of seaming due to my age and eyes

Excellent!!

Another excellent tutorial. 🙏🏻❤️

always enjoy your videos. One thing I wondered is what's the cleanest way to finish the tail and start new piece of yarn mid way up a seam (given you recommended using the tail to start).

Thank tou. I look forward to seeing them.

I have been doing battle with mattress stitch for years. Maybe today will be the day. I usually end up with a combination of half- and whole stitch seaming, the change occurring without my consent. I don't have a steam iron. I attempted to block my current project, finished with size 6 needles on superwash wool and the ends are curling like nobody's business. That is what makes it so difficult for me.

Great strategies!

Thanks so much! Great tutorial for all kinds of edging and seaming! :)

thank you thank you! I have a project waiting for a join using 1/2 stitch and didn't know how....

Learning so much. I always had trouble seaming; now it's fun. Can you suggest a good way to seam vertical rows that have steps from increases or decreases?

Very helpful! Thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much for this. I’m just finishing a sweater for my daughter in law. An easy knit with #6 yarn and 10 needles but it’s not in the round. Never again haha. I’ll complete it but the seams are bulky. I like the first seam work on your video, works well with this yarn. Do you have a video about translating a pattern to working in the round. I chickened out of doing it as it was a request and wanted it to be right. Thanks for sharing your expertise. You have made me a more confident knitter. JB.

superb!

fantastic. please tell me what to replace cast off with?

It would have been nice to see the wrong side of the half stitch…to see the difference in bulk. Overall, very useful videos , thanks!

How do you a patch pocket on a top down sweater. I picked up stitches along the bottom of the pocket . Now to sew them on the outside of the sweater

Great explanation very first time I have done the stockinette stitch and it worked thank you. I have a question about coming to the end of the stockinette stitch how do I finish it off.

This was very useful but I need to know how to sew sleeves on the reverse stockinette sweater

Do you have instructions for joining the Raglan Sleeve? I think you are among the top instructors (the best in most techniques). If not, I am wishing for your section on this procedure.

This was a revelation! Thank you for the instructions! Since I have already finished knitting a sweater, and did not do the decreases a couple of stitches into the row (I did them at the end of the row--never again!) is there anything I can do to minimize the unevenness? The yarn is Icelandic, not terribly bulky but I knit it fairly loose.

The best as always :-)

How come at the very beginning, as you come up with yarn on right hand sample in very first stitch, the yarn is already attached to the left hand side sample?

🙏thank you...that was fabulous!!! Does it work as well when sewing the shoulder seams ?

When you are seaming a half stitch, is the start any different? Do you still go into the bottom corners or do you split the corner stitch?

Hi Roxanne. Could you advise how to achieve the selvedge edge? Many thanks

My pattern asks for a garter stitch on each end of row. The rest is stockinette . Can you tell me how to sew it please

How do you end the seam?

Is it better to have even or odd number of stitches when mattress stitch seaming ribbing ie. K1 p1 ?

Hello ! Do you plan on making a video on how to sow, or graft, the cast on edge to the bind off edge in garter stitch ? I knit many jackets for newborn babies; I start in the front of the body, then cast on the necessary stitches for the sleeves which I have to bind off in order to knit the 2 back parts of the jacket, as I like these jackets to be buttoned on the back. I have no problem with the side seams - though not the way you do it - but when I reach the sleeves I'm always in trouble.... Can tou help?

Hi Roxanne! Does this technique apply to seaming two panels of different colours? Thanks!

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