Mattress Stitches

Mattress stitch is a great seaming technique to use for sewing seams in knitting.

Mattress stitches. The vertical mattress stitch often called vertical donati stitch named after the italian surgeon mario donati is a suture type used to close skin wounds the advantages of the vertical mattress suture are that it provides closure for both deep and superficial layers and also allows perfect eversion and vertical opposition of the superficial skin edges. After all you ve spent hours days weeks and maybe even months knitting up something wonderful and it can be ruined so easily if it isn t sewn up properly. One of the most important things to learn with knitting is how to sew knit seams.

The horizontal mattress suture is an everting suture technique that spreads tension along a wound edge 1 6 7 this technique is commonly used for pulling wound edges together over a distance or. You can t use mattress stitch successfully however on pieces that don t have the same number of rows or a difference of only 1 or 2 rows. With this type of knit you can easily insert the needle through the bar between the last two stitches in the work and get a clean hidden seam as.

This means that the work uses a basic knit stitch on one side and a purl stitch on the other side. The mattress stitch seam is perfect for joining knit work that is in the stockinette knit stitch.