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Neaten the Last Stitch of Your Bind-Off (Flat Knitting)

Neaten the Last Stitch of Your Bind-Off (Flat Knitting)

Neaten the Last Stitch of Your Bind-Off (Round Knitting)

Neaten the Last Stitch of Your Bind-Off (Round Knitting)

Every single time you’re binding off in the round, use this trick to make the join completely disappear. No one will be able to tell where you started and where you stopped.

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Garter Stitch in the Round Without Purling

Garter Stitch in the Round Without Purling

Pick Up and Hide Purl Wraps – Wrap and Turn on the Purl Side (Short Rows)

Pick Up and Hide Purl Wraps – Wrap and Turn on the Purl Side (Short Rows)

If you use the same technique to hide purl wraps as you do to hide knit wraps, the right side of your work will be a mess. The problem with the “intuitive” way of picking up purl wraps is that it places the wrap in front of the stitch. The challenge is to find an easy way to get that wrap in the back, which is exactly what our trick does.

How to Do Kitchener Stitch Without a Tapestry Needle

How to Do Kitchener Stitch Without a Tapestry Needle

You might not have a tapestry needle handy when you get to the bind-off on your top-down socks. This video shows you how to do Kitchener stitch using a spare knitting needle instead of a tapestry needle so you can wear your top-down socks without waiting another minute!

Neaten the Last Stitch of Your Bind-Off (Flat Knitting)

Neaten the Last Stitch of Your Bind-Off (Flat Knitting)

You should be doing this easy bind-off trick at the end of every project. See the results for yourself below – I think you’ll agree.

This is a simple move to neaten the last stitch of your bind-off every time you finish a project.

It’s a little superstar trick that you do at the very end that will square up your edges, especially if your side stitches tend to get stretched-out.

Neaten the Last Stitch of Your Bind-Off (Round Knitting)

Neaten the Last Stitch of Your Bind-Off (Round Knitting)

Every single time you’re binding off in the round, use this trick to make the join completely disappear. No one will be able to tell where you started and where you stopped.

Knit or Purl Backwards

Knit or Purl Backwards

To knit backwards, insert the left-hand needle from front to back through the first stitch on your right-hand needle. Wrap the yarn around the left-hand needle counter-clockwise (towards you), and then pull the stitch on the right-hand needle over the wrap and off the needle.