How to work a double knitted band with buttonholes

In this DROPS video we show how to work double band with buttholes. Pick up stitches along right front piece, with a long yarn end to pick up stitches with.
Begin pick up at the bottom of front piece and pick up 1 stitch in every knitted row along the entire front piece or skip every 4-5 stitch, inside 1 edge stitch. Look at your pattern what it says.

Now continue piece at the end of row where ball is (bottom of front piece).
Cast on new stitches for band as an extension of the stitches pick up at the bottom of front piece (cast on stitches from wrong side. We cast on 16 stitches, but it can be different from pattern to pattern). Work band over the 16 stitches at the same time as band is knitted together with stitches picked up along the front piece as follows:

ROW 1 (= right side): Slip first stitch on to right needle purlwise with strand in front of piece, * knit 1, slip 1 stitch on to right needle purlwise with strand in front of piece *, work from *-* until 1 stitch remains of the 16 band stitches, slip last stitch on to right needle knitwise, with strand behind piece, knit next stitch, pass slipped stitch over stitch worked, turn.

ROW 2 (= wrong side): * Slip first/next stitch on to right needle purlwise with strand in front of piece, knit 1 *, work from *-* over all the 16 band stitches, turn.
Repeat rows 1 and 2.

Read in the pattern you are working from when buttholes should be knitted.
Work buttonhole, begin from right side, as follows:
Work the first 8 stitches as before, turn and work over the 8 stitches as before, work 3 rows in total over the 8 stitches (work last row from right side). Cut the yarn.
Work 4 rows in total as before over the remaining 8 band stitches (work first row from right side) and work last stitch from right side together with next stitch along edge of jacket as before. On last row from wrong side work as before over all band stitches and continue as before over all band stitches.

We use the yarn DROPS Snow in the video. You must read a pattern to be able to follow this video properly. You’ll find a pattern using this technique by clicking on the pictures below.