Part IV: Putting the Pieces Together

Now we JOIN the three pieces together into one! After this step, you can begin to see the sweater taking shape! Keep up the great work, you are already more than halfway there to a nice new sweater for your Blythe girl!



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I used the mattress stitch to assemble the pieces together. You can use whatever way you are comfortable with. For a tutorial on some basic joining techniques, you can take a look at http://crochet.about.com/library/weekly/aa010999.htm

Join each of the two front halves to the back piece at the shoulders. Just be a little careful that the front halves are facing the right way. (One time I had sewed them on the wrong way and had to take the sweater apart! Oh well. Now I am more careful at this step! )

*The two front halves should be mirror images of each other. *
** The ARMHOLE IS THE MORE VERTICAL CURVE. **


Join at the sides.

So that is a total of four joins: two at the shoulders and two at the sides.
Here is what the sweater looks like after all four joins are finished:



My personal experience with joining these tiny pieces is that it's best to go slow. Take your time, it is not a race. Sometimes the angles weren't quite right and I'd have to take it apart and start over. It takes a little patience, but eventually the pieces can come together with a little coaxing. I try to remind myself that these edges we are joining together are not perfectly straight... so it's ok if the joins are not 100% perfect.

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Ready to make this sweater extra lovely?
Let's go on to Part V: The Edging

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