18 abril 2016

Learning to knit (V): Bind-off


   You already know how to cast-on, knit and purl. You also can knit the four main patterns: garter stitch, stockinette stitch, ribbing and seed stitch. You can already knit yourself a scarf, but… how do we bind-off stitches?

   Today I’m going to show you how to bind-off. As it also happened with casting on, there are different ways of binding off. One of them could be better of another depending on what we want to do with the garment after that. The bind-off I am going to show you today is the easiest one, and gives us a finishing similar to the cast-on I have already shown you. In this short video you can see how to bind-off when knitting garter stitch.



   If we are knitting a pattern alternating knit and purl stitches, like seed stitch, we will knit each stitch as needed and we will bind-off the stitches in the same way. A video is usually more useful than words.



   And this way we will bind-off any pattern we were knitting.

   And now, you can completely knit a scarf.

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