i'm having a "duh" moment
it's like painting yourself into a corner when obviously you know better but for some reason you weren't paying attention.
I am almost done with an easy sweater for a child i know, and thought i was so smart making the sleeves and the fronts at the same time.
Well, it WAS smart until i realized that i had not done the buttonholes!!! WHAT??? so because i am really really stubborn i will not take out the side that needs them. I must find a way to either make buttonholes or some alternative, which i thought might be little loop things if i can dream up a way..
i am just sharing this is my fault
Mice

Can you not add a button hole band on to the edge of the sweater and then the child will get a bit more mileage out of it??? Or just have button holes sewn in with a sewing machine and cut them open . . .

What about closing the sweater with pieces of velcro and stitching buttons over the top of the velcro to mimic a button closing and finish the sweater off?

i just KNEW someone would have ideas
thanks!!!

You could also sew the buttons on over snaps, but I think Deb's suggestion of Velcro is easier for kids.

Jude

Ok, you've probably already figured out a solution, but I had to laugh when I saw this post. I did something similar to what you did not long ago and couldn't believe it either. I did what Debbie mentioned with the velcro. Which worked out great for my daughter and allowed me to keep the large button look that I loved on the sweater. The only thing I'd warn you about is that the velcro sticks to everything on the sweater so it can really shred the yarn if you aren't careful. Use only a small piece right below the button and keep some extra around to cover them when washing.

You also mentioned trying a little loop. Two ideas for that are a crochet-loop or an i-cord loop button hole. Nancie Wiseman has both options in her book The Knitter's Book of Finishing Techniques.

It's silly "mistakes" like this that keeps this craft ever evolving.

if you saw the pile of mending i need to do you would know that there is probably no way i am going to do any sewing i do have a machine that works finally..but i am not inspired to use it. The bobbin case keeps snargling up and i can't find a way to adjust the tension.
So what happens is that I get the tension!!
Anyway, i think the velcro is a good idea but i think i might go with the extra button band. I was reading about making button bands in another pattern and realized that i could use that technique for my project. (ha! technique, she says..)
OR, maybe even easier is to use a crochet hook and make buttonholes, which i think i might do just to keep the sweater the same size.
I love crochet Have never made an i-cord and every time i see it in print, i think I-Cord?
what device is that? Directions are always backwards to me so i haven't bothered to translate.
Well, i'm off to find buttons so i can finish this. Next up? hmmm maybe the amigurumi i have been procrastinating on? i want to make that cat pillow thing that lies in front of your keyboard.
Please forgive my rambling. I just got back from math and my brain is tired
Mice

Mice

You'll appreciate where the name for the I-cord came from. It is short for Idiot Cord which is what Elizabeth Zimmermann named it after she accidentally discovered it and realized how easy it was.

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Originally posted by tweedy:
You'll appreciate where the name for the I-cord came from. It is short for Idiot Cord which is what Elizabeth Zimmermann named it after she accidentally discovered it and realized how easy it was.

Yeah, and then political correctness caught up with it. Perhaps we should call it "otherly-abled," a grammatically challenged designation I once heard applied to a sweet child with a lowish IQ.

Mice -- It is ridiculously easy.
Cast on 3 (or 4 or 5) stitches on a dp or short circ. Knit across. Don't turn, but slide the stitches to the other end of the needle. Repeat ad nauseum. Sliding the stitches to the other end forms a tube, which becomes apparent after a few rows. The more stitches, the wider the tube. In theory, I suppose you could knit a whole sleeve in i-cord. Or a sweater. Or a willy warmer.

if you slide the stitches to the other end isn't that where you are? i don't get it..
i'm a lefty and i knit from left to right so the stitches would have to be turned to knit the next row? actually the other end of what?
willy warmers..yup, i been to that site

i forgot!! i finished the sweater last night. I fudged buttonholes and used wooden buttons that are really too big but it turned out fine.
i should have been more careful and it would have saved me all that trouble.
Oh well, on to my next project whatever it is
Mice

Sorry, maybe that wasn't the clearest explanation.
Okay. Cast on 3 or so stitches.
Knit stitch 1, stitch 2 and stitch 3.
Instead of turning your work,
bring the yarn around the back of the needle in position to knit stitch one.
Knit stitch one, stitch two and stitch 3.
Bring the yarn around the back of the needle in position to knit stitch one. And so forth.
It shouldn't make any difference whether you knit left to right or vice versa as long as you don't turn the work. Just remember you're knitting 1-2-3 every time -- never 3-2-1.
It will look as though you have to tug on the brought-around yarn to help make a tube but you don't. Just keep going.

If all else fails, get one of those knitting nobby things. They make perfect i-cord.

There is also a video demonstration of it at knittinghelp.com.

And BaaBaa I'm still laughing over "otherly-abled".

What about using a zipper?

sure! i'll get a knitting knobby at Hobby Lobby
actually, they probably don't have one i just wanted to rhyme..
i am on to more wintery projects like handwarmers for anyone i may have missed last winter and when i am done stalling with that i will tackle the amigurumi cat that i have been wanting to make for no reason
Mice, recently "gifted" by a neighborhood kitty cat! who brought me a dead mouse!!! it was awfully cute so i felt bad. a tiny little thing...