Hi, Paula. I finally tried a steek after being afraid to try for years. I couldn't manipulate the bulky sweater on my sewing machine so I just sewed it with a double row of back stitches in the working yarn and it worked fine. The steek was in moss-stitch and it folded back neatly. After I picked up the stitches and knitted the band, I trimmed the ragged ends of the steek as close as I dared. They still show on the wrong side but are invisible from the right side. A perfectionist would be bothered by them but I'm not a perfectionist. It's a warm, sturdy sweater enjoyed by the whole family. When somebody is feeling chilly they say, "Where's Brownie?" (Brownie is the name of the sheep whose fleece I spun to make the sweater.) My husband and daughter don't care about a little fringe on the inside of a sweater, and nobody else has examinedi t closely enough to notice.
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