neck too tight

[lindadaniel]

I have knitted an adult christmas jumper, but the neck will be too tight to go over the head. I am at the stage of making it up and I wondered if I could pick up stiches along the side of the crew neck and a little into the shoulder and make a flap button strip? Can anybody forsee any problems with this. I really don't want to unravel the neck and make it bigger. I am not a very experienced knitter tho. what would a pattern be for the strip? How would I make a hole for the button and position them evenly? I have put so much work into this and I feel that it will come to nothing. Peease help!

[salmonmac]

You could make a buttonband at the top of the front shoulder. The number of stitches and placement of the buttonholes would depend on the gauge that you have on the neckband (this is in a rib pattern?). But I think a cleaner solution is to take out the neckband and re-knit it with a larger needle. It's even possible that the problem's not with the neckband itself but with the bind off. In that case, you need only re-do the bind off using a larger needle in your right hand or a stretchy bind off.
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