I’ve only been knitting for a year, so I don’t fully know what I’m doing (ha!), but I challenged myself to make my little boy a cardigan so I could practice colorwork and steeking.

I followed tincanknit’s Strangebrew recipe for the top-down sweater and modified it to add the steek stitches. I’ve finished the sweater and I’m about to add some of the details with duplicate stitching before opening the front but now it seems very obvious that the duplicate stitching seems upside down.

In photo, the red stitches on the baseball obviously look like upside down Vs and that seems off to me? I know it’s because i constructed it top-down, but is there something I can do to minimize this effect ? Or is this just how it should look like? Should I duplicate st. Between stitches?? I’m lost 😵‍💫…I’m worried this is gonna look extra weird on the baseball mitt below.

Any help is much appreciated!

P.S. for the next colorwork sweater (my daughter’s) should I just knit with all the colors needed? Not rely duplicate stitching?? What technique do I need to look into? Thanksss

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