christening set for him and her

[brenda0549]

I bought this pattern at annies attic http://www.anniesattic.com/detail.html?prod_id=23772 and am so confused

on the one for him

Jacket
I think is worked in pieces

the back is one piece and it dont have any neck edge or shoulder seams 9 1/2 inches

the right front is where I am right now
you start at the beg neck edge and the the shoulder and you continue until it is 5 1/4 inches

on the assembley it says
sew shoulder seams, matching shoulders of fronts to shoulder edge of back and leaving center of back unsewn for back neck edge

So anyway my questions are on the assembley
where is says sew shoulder seams, matching shoulder of fronts to shoulder edge
there is not seams on the back part so how do you match it up the back lenght and the front length are the same so if you did that it would overlap

second question
the back is 9 1/2 iches long
the front is 5 1/4 inches long
is this going to work?

[Kimcrafts]

I think I can answer the first question.

If the front panel has say 10 stitches for the shoulder then you sew it to the back panel starting at shoulder edges and only stitch in 10 stitches, or using up how many stitches your front panel has...fasten off after you have used up all the stitches of the front panel...that would leave you probably at your neck edge, which it says to leave unsewn.

The second question, I am not sure of, as I would have to see the garment.

If you have any questions that you can't get answered, Annie's Attic customer service is wonderful and they stand behind all their patterns.

Hope I helped.

[brenda0549]

I figured it out

my new problem
and they are not being any help on this one

rows 4-9
you are adding 2 hdc in frist st
and then next row you crochet to the end and then add 2 hdc

ok after you get to row 9
you turn and you chain 8 for the shoulder except it is at the bottom and not where the neck is supposed to be

any ideas

the pictures is of the right shoulder that is finished and the other one is the left shoulder

[Kimcrafts]

It's hard for me to see, but did you do 10 rows instead of 9...that would make the difference whether the ending would be at the top by the neckline or at the bottom.

[brenda0549]

I did the excat same amount of rows like the pattern says, I realize that you need to add another row do you think it would offset it too much

[Kimcrafts]

HI sorry I am just now getting back to you. I am testing the tank and all my attention is going to that.

It still looks like to me that you have 10 rows instead of 9 rows that the pattern calls for. It will off set it if you make another row and your are not supposed to.

Please go back and count your rows again and I think you will see that you have 10...if you rip a row out...you should be at 9 rows and you will be on the correct end to do your neck edging.

[brenda0549]

I have reworked it three times and every time its the same

I have decided that there is a mistake in the pattern

I worked a extra row and it did off set it but it looks fine

I will post a finished picture later

[Kimcrafts]

Oh okay...glad it all worked out for you. Nothing is more frustrating when the counts are off and you are itching to get it done!