Finishing Question
I'm working on the first sleeve of my Tai top now...I'm about midway through, so I feel like I'm almost coming into the home stretch. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have all the knitting completed. (It was supposed to take me a little longer, because I wanted to go on a knitting expedition with Julie today, but a little stomach bug intervened early this morning and I figure it would be better for me to rest up a little). And then something occurred to me. Should I use a strand of Tai to seam up this top or should I use something else?
This leads me to a more general question that I would love to get input from anyone and everyone from: how do you decide what yarn/fiber to seam up your knitwear with? Up until this point I have never seamed any garment with a different yarn than the one it is worked in, to avoid color differences.
For difficult yarn - very thick,slubby,lumpy or fragile - I use tapestry yarn for wool and emroidery floss for cotton.They both come in a wide range of colours ,are durable,multi stranded so you can choose appropriate thickness and the good makes are colour fast.
For Cunky yarns I often use a d.k. or 4 ply in the same colour and yarn type.
I would do the same as Emma. Usually I use the yarn I knitted with, but if its too slubby, for wool I use thin sockwool to sew together and for cotton perhaps some size 20 or thinner cordonnet cotton for crochet :)
I'm with Emma on this too. Sometimes it's possible to separate out a single strand of a slubby yarn and use that to sew with. I just make sure the sewing yarn is compatible with the knitted piece in the "care" area.