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Mitered V-Neck band shaped with the garter bar
This is a doubled band knitted with the stockinette stitch. Begin your band by joining one shoulder seam to have the whole neckline knitted in one piece with only one seam. With wrong side facing you, and the center of the V at the center of your machine (0), hang one side of the V to the left of 0 and the other side to the right. Knit 2 rows at your main tension -1. Using your tool, move the stitch to the left of the center onto the center needle (consider that the first needle to the left of center 0 is the center needle). Move the right stitch onto the center needle so you now have 3 stitches on one needle. Move the three stitches from that needle to the right. Now you have 2 empty needles left of center. Hang your three-pronged tool over the stitches to the right to hold them in place. Remove the left side of work onto a garter bar and then re-hang filling the two empty spaces. Drop the two end needles that are now empty out of work. Knit 2 rows. Work these decreases every two rows, alternating sides, moving the three stitches to the right then the left to keep your work centered. It depends on how wide you want your band to be. If you go to row count 8, then on that row, remove all stitches onto the garter bar and turn to re-hang. This will give a garter ridge fold-line. Knit 1 row. RC=9. Turn back with garter bar and knit 2 rows. RC=11. On the inside section of the band, increase every 2 rows on RC11, 13, 15 by alternately removing the stitches on either side of the V onto the garter bar and re-hanging leaving 2 stitches empty by the center V. Move the center stitch into the middle, creating empty needles to either side and re-hang the purl bar on either side of the center of the V. Basically, you are doing the same thing as earlier but in reverse. Remove on waste yarn to leave live stitches, which you can backstitch into place. You can knit this mitered V-neck without a garter bar too. Just use your three-pronged tool to move the stitches back and forth. It's much slower, but can be done! In this case, you may not want to join the shoulder seam. To get the turning line as a garter stitch, you would have to take your neck-line off with floss and waste yarn or, just knit that turning row MT+1.
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