Really simple sweet finish on Baby Jumper

A friend's knitting needed a little assistance... the neck of the pretty pink jumper didn't fit and no amount of casting off with a larger needle would do... especially as the neckband is at the top of each segment of the garment so there are 4 seams.  Add to that the difficulty of getting the right number of rows (if you are not a regular knitter) and you will see why I found myself the other night with the fun of finishing off a garment without that slight boredom you get when you think you'll never finish what you're working on!

I restitched the seams with ladder stitch so all the casting on and ribbing at the bottom of the garment looked the same... I left a raglan seam open from just above the sleeve seam.


The seam left open was on the front of the raglan sleeved garment...for two reasons,
1. The buttons looked really cute and would be seen more and,
2. Because the buttons had a shank on them, if they were at the front the shanks wouldn't stick into the baby if she lay down.
The edging and buttonholes were done with  the same wool and a crochet hook that was a little finer than the needles the garment was knitted with. I did double crochet throughout (American single crochet) 2 rows from the back of the opening to the front on the second (return) row I put in the three chain miss three stitches  buttonholes (three times).
When I reached the top of the back section of the button V  I continued around the neck with a row of double crochet, putting the hook into every knit stitch on the band. This hid the fact that some of the panels had been cast off with the wrong side facing and some with the right side facing... by doing it this way the finished effect was of a smooth finished cast off edge. The final row continued along the V giving a bit more strength to the buttonholes. After finishing off a few stitches to hold the V in place with the buttonhole side overlapping the underside, ready for buttoning, buttons sewn on and the garment was complete.... and very cute!