As I mentioned last week, I have knit facings for my Yell cardigan: The bottom edge, the front bands and the bottom edge of the sleeves.
The pattern directs you to do a few rows of moss stitch at the garment edges, which to me seems like not enough of an edge to combat the piece curling up, as the rest of it is miles of stockinette. Several Ravelers have mentioned this issue in their project notes, so I figured my fears were justified. So I knit a facing.
It’s easy to do. I cast on the requisite number of stitches, then worked stockinette in the round — for the bottom edge I did about 1.5″, for the front bands I did it deep enough to cover the bands on the wrong side. Once the facing was deep enough, I worked one purl round on the right side. This is the turning round: having that one purl round makes the facing fold obediently to the inside of the work.

I then carefully sewed the cast-on edge of the facing to the inside of the sweater using the same yarn as I used for the sweater. And there you have it — a nice neat facing!

A tip: I am using a 3.25mm to knit Yell, so I used a 3mm needle to knit the facing. My gauge is slight tighter knitting two-color stockinette, so I went down a size to knit the one-color facing.
I have one sleeve done and inserted in the armhole.

Coming down the home stretch! Loki celebrates by lounging on the coffee table.
