Finally Achieve Flawless, Elegant Bind-Offs. The Clear, Detailed Videos in This Course Lead You Through Every Step

A Step-by-Step Video Class

Ready to Have The Ultimate Bind-Off Library at Your Fingertips?

Skills You Will Learn

Choose the Right Bind-Off for Different Types of Fabric

• Best bind-offs for lace
• Best bind-offs for garter stitch
• Best bind-offs for seed stitch
• Best invisible and stretchy bind-offs for 1x1 and 2x2 rib
• Stretchy bind-offs for stockinette stitch
• Which bind-offs lay flat and don't roll
• Which bind-offs match your favorite cast-ons

Tips and Tricks to Make Your Bind-Offs Shine

• Square off the last stitch of your bind-off on flat knitting
• Completely hide the last stitch of your bind-off in the round
• Fix a too-tight bind-off
• Count how many stitches you’ve bound off
• Undo your bind-off stitches

Have Fun Binding Off While Preparing for Advanced Bind-Offs 

I only included bind-offs in this course that passed the test of the following three questions:

• “Did I have fun doing this technique?”
• “Would learning this help me learn a more difficult bind-off later?”
• “Is this better than anything else I’ve come across?”

As you study this guide and try these Liat-tested-and-approved bind-offs, you'll find that, in almost every situation, there is a better bind-off than the one you've been using for your projects. Enjoy!

Class Contents

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What Is Binding Off?

Binding off is done at the end of a project to get the live stitches off your needles and keep them from unraveling so you can wear and enjoy your project.

At its most basic, it is a horizontal chain of stitches going along the top of your knitting. At its most complex, it can be an invisibly-sewn edge that seems to disappear into your ribbed, lace, or garter-stitch project.

You'll bind off any time that your pattern says "bind off" (BO). This is mostly at the end of your project, but it can be in the middle if your pattern has an unusual shape.

Sometimes the pattern will give you a specific bind-off to use, like "Bind off using Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off." Sometimes it will only suggest a general category, for example, “Bind off using a stretchy bind-off.” 99.99% of patterns out there just say, "Bind off," and some don't even tell you that.

Whether or not your pattern gives you specific suggestions, it's always up to you to choose the right bind-off so that your project comes out the way you like.

About This Class

I created this course in 2014 as a curated video library of only the best and most useful bind-off techniques.

Before working on this book, there were bind-offs that I didn’t even try because they seemed so complicated that they weren’t worth learning. In knitting over 200 bind-off swatches for this course, I was surprised to find that, in almost every situation, there is a better bind-off than the one I’d been using for my projects. And I’m a professional!

Because I persisted in knitting ALL the bind-offs and not just the “likely” candidates, I learned that many of those bind-offs aren’t as complicated as they seem at first glance – Jeny’s Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off is one example.

I also found that if they are more complex, they are often worth learning anyway, because they create a better final project. The Tulips Buttonhole is a great example of a vastly more complex technique that is still totally worth doing.

If the techniques were truly more complicated and NOT better than the other, easier, bind-offs? Well, I found that out too, and I rejected them faster than you can say, “Invisible Ribbed Bind-Off.”

To decide which bind-off tutorials to include, I got out all of my finishing books and started knitting swatches for each technique. I read what other people said the technique would be good for and then I worked it again, this time deciding for myself.

Then I worked it again, taking notes on not only how to do the bind-off and what my students should watch out for, but also how to explain it better in the first place. I knitted long strips of Stockinette, Garter stitch, and ribbing, and worked the bind-offs down the rows again and again while deciding whether to include them in the e-book.

As I continued this process for all of the different techniques, eventually I realized that I was coming up to – and surpassing – 200 bind-off swatches!

Each bind-off had to pass the following test to make it into this course:

• “Did I have fun doing this technique?”
• “Would learning this help me learn a more difficult bind-off later?”
• “Is this better than anything else I’ve come across?”

I only included the very best of everything.

The result: A clear, easy-to-follow video guide to the top 45 bind-offs you will use and love.

Materials Needed

To learn the cast-ons in this course, all you need is some scrap yarn and a matching pair of needles.

I show all the techniques with bulky-weight yarn and US size 9 or 10½ needles, but you may have an easier time using worsted-weight yarn and US size 7 (4.5 mm) needles.