Avoiding Holes in Top-Down Sweater Underarms // Technique Tuesday

This video demonstrates a technique to avoid gaps or holes at the underarm join of top down sweaters. Support me by buying me a coffee on Ko-fi! https://www.ko-fi.com/roxannerichardson My knitting designs: https://www.ravelry.com/designers/roxanne-richardson Technique used in this video: Picking up sts along a finished edge https://youtu.be/9NYuN-Vt92Q Tips and tricks for Backwards loop CO: https://youtu.be/aMKfwZe1CR8 Duplicate stitch https://youtu.be/B07yz_kuU8Q Reverse duplicate stitch for weaving in yarn tails https://youtu.be/UHUOkLOaFjs Needles used in video demonstration: Chiaogoo Red Lace circulars Yarn used in video demonstration: Sun Valley Fibers MCN, color Firewatch The sweater pattern used in this demonstration is Lille Dahlia Solo by le knit: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lille-dahlia-solo If you have questions about this video, or suggestions for future videos, please let me know down in the comments or on social media. 0:00 Introduction 0:24 Overview/Avoiding Underarm Gaps 1:41 Reading the CO Edge 3:45 Why here? Explanation 5:22 Explanation Over/Return to PU Sts 7:01 Decreases/Eliminating the Extra Stitches 8:48 Final Result/Weaving in Tails Rox Rocks Ravelry group: http://www.ravelry.com/groups/rox-rocks IG: https://www.instagram.com/roxmpls/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/RoxMpls