{"id":19730,"date":"2019-05-17T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T20:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?page_id=19730"},"modified":"2019-05-22T10:34:47","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T14:34:47","slug":"invisible-finish-for-open-edges-in-amigurumi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/amigurumi-help\/invisible-finish-for-open-edges-in-amigurumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Invisible Finish for Open Edges in Amigurumi"},"content":{"rendered":"
Link easily to this tutorial in your patterns: www.planetjune.com\/invjoin<\/a><\/strong> or www.planetjune.com\/invfinish<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

The standard way to finish an open-ended piece in amigurumi is to join with a slip stitch (sl st) to the next stitch, to reduce the height jog of the spiral between the first and last stitches of the final round. It’s a quick and easy method, and is perfectly fine if you’ll be stitching the piece down to something else so the edge won’t show in the finished amigurumi.<\/p>\n

That’s not always the case, though – sometimes the edge will<\/strong> be visible in the finished piece, and in this case the sl st finish isn’t the best choice – it leaves a little bump that’s impossible to hide completely.<\/p>\n

I highly recommend you always use an Invisible Finish<\/strong> instead if the join will be visible in your finished piece – it doesn’t leave a bump, and makes a much smoother, neater join. <\/p>\n

(If you\u2019d like to see how I came up with this technique, see my Invisible Finish Investigation<\/a>, where I analysed multiple options to determine which gives the best-looking finish.)<\/em><\/p>\n

You can see the technique in action (with my refinement that makes it much easier to control the size of the duplicate stitch and keep it held in place once you’ve adjusted it to the right size) in the videos below:<\/p>\n

Video Tutorial (right-handed)<\/h2>\n