Knitting Blog

Every time you’d like to try knitting something just a little bit harder than what you’re used to, try one or two (but not three) of these challenges: Pattern length, knitting abbreviations, and hand dexterity.

It all started innocently enough, as most good stories do. I wanted to connect more with my readers and share some helpful new tips so I decided to do a webinar and start a podcast.

I’ve been so busy working on improvements to KnitFreedom that I’ve really missed connecting with you- my students- and I thought this short podcast episode would be a fun and new way for us to connect. Here’s what we’ve been up to: a new website, upcoming knitting book (the Fearless Knitter), webinars, new videos and more.

Stretchy bind-offs, seaming bind-offs, invisible bind-offs, bind-offs for lace and garter stitch… they’re all here. This post lets you view and compare all the bind-offs featured in my I Love Bind-Offs video course, available now.

To create the new I Love Bind-Offs video class, I didn’t want to just record videos of bind-offs that other people chose for their books, or pass on to you what they said without testing everything for myself. I ended up knitting over 200 bind-offs so that I could offer you what no other resource does — my opinion.

A too-tight bind-off is the Achilles’ heel of the perfect knitted project. It’s the most common complaint I get about bind-offs. Here’s how to avoid and/or fix a too-tight bind-off.