Shoulder Seam

[SkimmerzOfGMS]

Worked for me! Clear instructions and the finished seam was better than anything I've done before. I'm sure there are many techniques of varying difficulty and for varying garments, but this method was absolutely appropriate and very doable for me.

[Vereteno]

The good technique is to do short row shaping, knit one extra row to even it and do three needle bind off. The seam will be absolutely even, not bulky and it will have a little stretch to it, so that the shouder seam moves together woth the garment but doesn't stretch out of proportion.

Berocco ia a major yarn manufacturer and has a big design team, they shoud do a better job if they spread a knitting knowledge.

[Vereteno]

The shoulder shaping is done by binding off the stitches. It creates noticeable steps that are very difficult to seam and good seaming in real life situation takes a lot of guess work to avoid wobbly seam. In addition to it, the bound off shoulder seam is always very bulky, just the nature of bound off edge. It may work on a fine yarn, but anything starting with worsted weight yarn will give quite bad, unsightly, wobbly and bulky seam.

[kyddoemiko100]

Thank you for making it so easy.

kyddoemiko.

[Vereteno]

Extremely bad technique. One of the worst I know about.

[mattoni007]

@Vereteno Why is it bad?

[mkpgreen]

Really helpful video for making a good strong shoulder seam. Thanks!

[MamaPalma]

Excellent!! Thanks so much for posting this!!

[MamaPalma]

Exellent!! Thanks so much for posting this!!

[gabegen]

That was real simple, clear and to the point which is very helpful, thanks!

[TerraTurnEmerald]

Right sides out, does that mean down? Did you work on the back side?

[TheSkinman2000]

Co you do anything special to anchor the ends of the yarn you used to join the two pieces or do you just weave them in?

[Dee3109]

Very well done! Thank you.

[0617kitty]

Thank you for making this video. It is very hepful for me. I had such a hard to make the shoulder looks good and my sweater project was about to fail if I don't get this help!!

[cheekieweekie]

Thanks for showing this which in the old days I could have only learned from my mom or granny. Things can be so easy with the appropriate instructions!

[immiejane]

Brilliantly clear and informative - I'm about to give it a go!

[grandmastatus]

Okay so how do you do this if your piece is knit in reverse stockinette??

[justaysmom]

Great tutorial and excellent video! Thank you so very much! For a newer knitter like myself, this kind of help is great (and Free!). Really appreciate it.

[autbrat]

awesome video thank you!!! of course now I have to redo my shoulder seam, but I like this one because it looks seamless... thanks :-)

[oneritchie]

Thank you, this is just what I needed.

[mollitoff]

I just did this and wish there wasn't a bump from the bind off underneath (as I need to seam the collar too and it's lumpy there). Do people ever graft shoulder seams? Or is that too weak for a shoulder?

[aelievense]

Kind of a late reply, but I don't think many people graft shoulder for the exact reson you mentioned: too weak structurally for the sweater. If you don't like to shoulder seam, another option is to do a three needle bind off for shoulder seams. That works quite well.

[dihvgreen]

I was never shown how to join seams - it looks so perfect - thankyou thankyou

[Jenas17]

Thanks for the video , very clever and help !