During my recent vacation I knitted two pairs of Sneaker Socks. To bind off stitches of the first pair, I used the yarn over bind off method that forms a stretchy edge and is amazingly easy to make (as it was my vacation, I chose to stick to the very simple methods :-). With all the benefits of …
Right after I published a tutorial about the lovely lace-like yarn over edging, I’ve got a message from Julia R with a suggestion to turn this edging into a bind off that we could use to finish off toe-up socks, top-down sweaters and other projects that benefit from a delicate bind off edge. It was a terrific …
If you like to match cast on and bind off edges of your projects, this tutorial is for you. We’ll see how we can make a bind off edge that looks very similar to the edge formed by the Easy Picot Cast On. Because the cast on edge that we are trying to match consists …
The hardest part of figuring out a bind off edging that would match the beautiful criss-cross cast on border was to turn the usual chain of stitches at the top of the bind off edge into a chain of knots like the ones we see at the very bottom of the criss-cross cast on edging. …
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