I can not believe I have never used this for making things up before - the finish is so invisible and perfect:love: I have been making up the baby raglan for my niece - I need your opinions on which buttons to use tonight (or I may need some different ones if Jill has something better than I have):thumbsup:

Lisa - Where are the pictures? I need to see this wonderful stitch in reality rather than in diagrams.

When I'm knitting stocking stitich I always knit the first and last stitch of the row to aid with sewing up. Would I have to stop doing this to use mattress stitch or could I use it for alignment iyswim?

I've got a stocking stitch jumper otn at the mo (started the sleeves and it knits up quickly) so if I can, I'll follow your example and use this wonderful stitch to complete my creation.

Don't answer this question until you've sobered up though, all those mince pies and mulled wine at Jills tonight will have taken their toll you know.

Oh Turra - we have seen the real thing tonight and she has mastered mattress stitch - no problem! Knitting the first and last stitch on the purl row helps with mattress stitch as it helps to keep the seam even flatter. It is an truly magnificent sewing up technique!

Ok, I now officially am in a sulk. Please put the pictures up and show us the technique Lisa, please, pleeze??? It is the season of goodwill to all men(and knitters) after all......

Ok, I now officially am in a sulk. Please put the pictures up and show us the technique Lisa, please, pleeze??? It is the season of goodwill to all men(and knitters) after all......


I can put you pictures up of the finished seams (when I get back home from work anyway) - but they are finished now so you cant have action shots:D It does truely give an amazing finish - I was so suprised:D

Im interested in this too. Is it just a technique for stocking stitch?

OK then - see if you can spot the seaming here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2126527827/) and here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2126527417/) then:) Here is the finished article (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2127313508/?eOrig=2126526787)and a hat!

I have seen somewhere that shows you how to do it for garter stitch too.

Oh wow lisa they're gorgeous!!! I love the way the buttons are on the side of the shoulder. You're right, I can't see any seam at all. I was always scared of mattress stitch but when I tried it I realised how fab it is....I may even go so far as to say that I enjoy it but shhhh, don't tell anyone!

Love the top and hat, it's lovely and the buttons go really well with it.

OK then - see if you can spot the seaming here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2126527827/) and here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2126527417/) then:) Here is the finished article (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2127313508/?eOrig=2126526787)and a hat!

I have seen somewhere that shows you how to do it for garter stitch too.

Wow! that is soo neat. I am really really impressed.

OK then - see if you can spot the seaming here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2126527827/) and here (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2126527417/) then:) Here is the finished article (http://www.flickr.com/photos/19810784@N08/2127313508/?eOrig=2126526787)and a hat!

I have seen somewhere that shows you how to do it for garter stitch too.

They are very sweet lisaH, what a lucky baby - well done :love:

The buttons look lovely, no-one would know that they were your ninth choice (or was it seventeenth?)

Awwww, that's sooooo schweeeeeet.

If the set were blue, it'd make me think of pocoyo!

Lisa - in answer to your challenge no I can't see the seams anywhere! They are sooo fantastic. Tell me did you block or press your pieces before sewing and did you sit at a table or works surface or did you do it in a soft chair? I will definitely have to investigate this further.

Aaah, that's very cute! The buttons look good - better than the pink ones :)

The buttons look lovely, no-one would know that they were your ninth choice (or was it seventeenth?)

Are you suggesting that i am indecicive:suspect: They did go well though:lol:

Lisa - in answer to your challenge no I can't see the seams anywhere! They are sooo fantastic. Tell me did you block or press your pieces before sewing and did you sit at a table or works surface or did you do it in a soft chair? I will definitely have to investigate this further.

I did block - not with the hat though and that came out nice too. I didnt stitch at the table - mostly it was done on the settee at home and finished off on my knee at the Wool Baa on Thursday:)