Perhaps I should have saved up a little bravado from my last post, because this neck-thing I'm about to show you is pretty wonderful, too!

I want to make this as seamless as possible, which I hope means *completely* seamless.  I worked the left and right front pieces until I got to the row that will go under the arm hole and connect it to the back.  Then I started the right and left back pieces starting at the shoulder seam (which is foundation single crochet, aka fsc). The green arrows show you the direction I'm crocheting out from the shoulder seam for the front and back.

The next step is creating the back edge of the neck hole.  The thin link between the left and right back is fsc.  You can see that the back pieces slope in toward each other.  I did this so when I connect everything, the neck hole will curve around my neck.  I got the inspiration for this from seeing this Jewel swatch on Ravelry (similar to this Cinnabar swatch on Doris Chan's blog, which I found later.  She is a crochet genius!).

The row I'm working on now starts at the blue A.  I've worked it up to the blue B ... and I'm getting ready to start working in the fsc.

Here is a close up of that first step.  I've got to tell you, I had this all laid out on the kitchen table in the middle of the night and I was SO excited to see how it was going to turn out.  I would take some photos, crochet a bit while it was still laying on the table, take more photos, then crochet a bit more.  It felt sort of magical that it was *actually* working how I hoped it would work.  I also felt like you were all there with me peeking over my shoulder.

Here is the first back-of-the-neck row finished.  So awesome!  Now I just need to work down the back of the sweater until I get to the row where the bottom of the arm hole is ... then I'll connect the front and back the same way I did this.

I'm not sure how I'm going to attach the fsc to the left back piece.  Does anyone know of a tutorial or example of this anywhere?  I fully plan on trying out all the options myself to figure out which one I like best, but it would be nice to have a place to start. :)