yarn yoga

I'm not sure if you've noticed, but I haven't been talking about my knitting much lately. So many other interesting things have been coming up. However, if you're really observant, which I'm not, you may have noticed that the AV Shawl collared pullover went from being on my 'to-knit list' to being 50% done! (I really need to try to get my progress bars to work with this layout.) This is such a fun and quick knit! I've got the back and both sleeves completed; I've even woven in the ends! This weekend I hope to finish the front and cast on for the collar. Then the seaming... The dreaded seaming.


Wanting to get better at seaming (and more patient with it), I was hoping to do a little in between knitting. This would make it so that it wouldn't be so much all at once. Well, after doing some reasearch via Stitch 'n Bitch, it turns out that you do the shoulder seams FIRST. Ha! I guess I should have knit it in the order the pattern lays out. C'est la vie.

Here's my question though: Can you sew the sleeve seams up before attaching them to the body? I'm guessing that the answer is no, since all my books say to sew the sleeves to the armholes after you sew the shoulder seams. Is this an absolute in the world of sweater knitting? I hope not, but maybe the shoulder caps have something to do with it?

Hope you all have a great night!