You are so welcome!

I'm so glad it worked for you. I was amazed at the difference the first time I tried it. :-)

I hope you don't mind, but I referenced your video on my Ravelry project page

Of course not! :-)

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I have one sort of half way set up. I got a bit stumped at what to offer at different reward levels. Any suggestions? (It is something I want to get going, and soon!)

Roxanne Richardson that's a great question... Maybe patterns at some of the higher levels? Or more in depth explanations beyond what's here? I haven't worked the setting up part of patreon personally, and I don't currently support anyone on patreon, but I'd be happy to do so based on the quality and content of your videos.

I have the sweater in my Ravelry Notebook, with a link to the source www.ravelry.com/projects/Rox/design-five-crew-neck-sweater-or-cardigan

Roxanne Richardson Thank you!

It works for closing vertical edges, so if you are asking if it can be used to close the long seam of a sleeve from cuff to underarm, then the answer is yes.

I usually work the first piece to a particular length, then knit the second one to match the row count of the first.

Rather than going down through the center of one stitch and up through the center of its neighbor, you'd come up through the center of the stitch on the other side of the neighboring stitch.

Rather than skipping a row, catch 2 rows of loops on the longer edge, and 1 row on the shorter edge.

@@RoxanneRichardson okay thank you,.I will try that! 😊

That depends a bit on whether you are sewing the lining to the inside of the sweater, or sewing a patch pocket to the outside of the sweater. Sounds like a great idea for a video!

If by "use" it, you mean can you insert a link to the video in a written tutorial, then yes.

@@RoxanneRichardson yes! thank you very much!

Not yet -- my plan is to do that for next week's video! :-)

I haven't been able to pinpoint when it arrived on the knitting technique scene. It doesn't appear to have been used in the 19th century, and probably not often in the first half of the 20th century, if at all. (It's not mentioned in Mary Thomas's famous knitting book, published in 1938.) Vintage patterns, when they specify a seaming technique, tend to indicate backstitch. The 19th century books on "plain needlework" include sections on sewing and seaming garments made from cut cloth, but do not include any special seaming techniques for knitted garments in the section on knitting, which I believe indicates they were using the same techniques for both. Mattress stitch appears in all my knitting books published since I learned to knit in the mid-80s, but not always with the name "mattress stitch." Some books call it "ladder stitch" or "edge-to-edge seaming." Barbara Walker's Knitting From the Top, published in 1972, mentions the various ways knitters seam, as well as the way "most knitting instructors" teach, and then goes on to describe the way she prefers to seam, which is a variation on the way those instructors taught. Walker's method is the technique we know today as mattress stitch. Given the number of contributions she made to the knitting world that have had a lasting impact, I wouldn't be surprised if this was an innovation she came up with. Even though my knitting books demonstrated this technique, I didn't notice it when I learned to knit in 1986, and used backstitch for seaming garments until I was made aware of mattress stitch ten years later. I was learning to use a knitting machine, and the book I had demonstrated the technique. I hadn't looked up how to seam knitted garments before that, because I assumed it was the same as for woven garments.

@@RoxanneRichardson Wow, this is interesting. Do you prefer a knitting machine or hand knitting? I heard that Twiggy (the model) was very proficient on a knitting machine and if she was going to a business meeting and needed something to wear, she could just crank out a dress or a sweater. I've never used a knitting machine and I've never actually seen one except in pictures. Thanks for this information.

Oh, I prefer hand knitting. Machine knitting is a very different process, and removes the hands from direct contact with the fabric, because you're moving a carriage back and forth. It also confines the knitter in the room where the machine is, and isn't portable. It's the same difference as hand-lettering a card vs typing a message on a computer, using a fancy typeface, and laser printing it onto card stock. I just took a closer look at Walker's instructions for seaming, and I see that I misread what she was saying. She actually said that she seamed through the edge stitch (which is a 1/2-stitch mattress stitch), going down through the center of the edge stitch, and then up through the stitch in the row above. A look through a few knitting magazines I have from the 1960s also advocated this method, only in their instructions, instead of coming up through the row above, you come up through the stitch two rows above. I'm still looking for signs of when seaming between sts rather than through sts would have been recommended.

If the reverse stockinette side is the Right Side, then you pick up between the selvedge and 2nd stitch in, just as for picking up if the knit side was the RS.

That depends on what's going on at the other end of the seam. If it's an underarm (which it often is), I'll probably run the tail through the four corners (the two corners from the sleeve and the two from the body) in order to avoid a hole. If it's an exposed bind off edge, I usually run the tail up the center of the last chain of the bind off on the right, and under the two legs of the first chain on the left, and then back down through the center of the chain on the right, in order to create a chain stitch that maintains continuity across the two BO chains. (assuming that both BO chains are moving right to left)

⁠ I am using around loom afghan and I am finished. I am watching this video mattress stitch is this the same to put the panels together or do you have a another video to attach the panels?

That depends on how the shoulders were shaped. If they were shaped with a series of bind offs (stair steps), they will need a standard horizontal mattress stitch seam (same as for stockinette). As you tighten the seaming thread, the edges will come together. If they were shaped with short rows, so that all of the sts are still live, you can use a three-needle BO. With a 3NBO, you have a couple of choices about how you want the finished result to look. I have a playlist of videos on 3NBO, and another on seams and joins. I would suggest knitting up some swatches and trying out various approaches to see which result you prefer. There typically is no "best" way of doing something in knitting, merely choices and preferences.