Leftover Sock yarn & a Mitered bind off. I've got leftover sock yarn.
Most of us do. Some people ignore it. Some people make multi-yarn socks. Some people - the more crazy among us - decide to knit a sock yarn afghan. Yup. you got it. The squares are very basic.CO 40 sts placing a stitch marker between 20 & 21. Now here's where I figured out something different. Mitered Bind Off. Work the last row (wrong side) knit across.K2tog, k2tog, pass first st over. break yarn and pull thru last stitch.
This gives a nice tight finish that looks very similar to the beginning and doesn't have that odd looking stitch that likes to hang out on the edge of regular sind off. I'm going to try doing a k2tog on the last couple stiches of a regular bind off and see if it helps the look there also. Knitty™ Coffeeshop. Denise's Toe=Up Socks lesson six. Cybersocks Toe-up Socks Instructor Denise Powell Lesson Six - Two Stretchy Cast Offs The first method is easy and can be used on any edge.
The second takes more practice and works with single rib only but gives a very elegant finish. Elizabeth Zimmermann's Sewn Cast off This is from Knitting Without Tears; it has been a favourite of mine for many years (hmm, that's an ambiguous sentence - I meant the cast off, but it applies equally to the book. . . .) Break yarn, leaving a tail about 4 times as long as the circumference of the sock.
. * sew forward (right to left) through two stitches as if to purl, leave the stitches on. Denise's variation for circular knitting: For the very first stitch only, after you go backwards through it, do not remove it, instead move it to be the last stitch on the final needle. Grafted cast off for single rib This cast off is the equivalent of grafting or duplicate stitch across the top of the single rib stitches. Click on any of the photos for a larger image. Summer 2006.
Okay, so you've put hours and hours (and hours) into knitting and you've finished.
Now to bind off. (Some people call it casting off because there's a lovely symmetry to "casting on, casting off", isn't there?) But which bind off? Do you usually bind off too tightly? I know I do. The most usual way to bind off is as follows: Knit two stitches then *insert the left hand needle into the front of the first stitch on the right needle, pull it over the second stitch and off the right hand needle.