I’ve done this twice now and it’s so ridiculous. I am so excited to finish my knitting that I cut the yarn before binding off😳. After the “snip I realized my error. The last time I just bound off splicing in another price of yarn which makes the sock hard to put on. This time it is a fingerless mitt and I’m going to take out the last row. Not sure that will be enough to bind off, but if I take out anymore it won’t match it’s mate. What a ding-dong. Maybe I’m getting too old to knit. Perish the thought.
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Has anyone else ever done this. if is a fingerless mitt and I’m going to
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Can I ask what weight yarn you are using?I am asking because I rarely use any thing bigger than sport weight. This works for me on lighter weight yarn I have no idea if it will work on chunkier yarn
I have successively just tinked back 5 or 10 stitches and and stitched a few stitches with both yarns. when I am done binding off I weave both ends in different directions.
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08-27-2019, 05:17 PMEditing a commentLOL,Guest
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I don’t know why I never spotted it before!
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You're essentially felting the old strand to the new, and breaking off half the plies on each end minimizes the thickness. Breaking rather than cutting also helps the ends blend in better.
If anyplace doesn't look like it's sticking together, lick your palm and give that area another rub.
(If licking your palm to get moisture is, er, disturbing, regular water works too.You need moisture to help the felting process.)
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If it is a multi-coloured yarn and you have enough to spare, go back a few rows and join the appropriate colour at that point, so the join will not be right up at the edge where everyone will see it. Even if it is a plain yarn, it is better to take it back a few rows and join, so the join is not at the edge.
Worst case scenario, go back to where you can finish a full row and bind off, then rip the first mitt back so it is the same length and re-finish it. They will be a row or two shorter than planned, but it should not be enough to notice.
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You can bind off without using any extra yarn if you want to do that. I'll get a link which explains it, but it's really easy.
http://www.10rowsaday.com/bindoff-without-yarn
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08-28-2019, 04:24 PMEditing a commentWho knew? Take THAT yarn chicken.
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08-28-2019, 05:04 PMEditing a commentO-h, m-y, h-e-a-v-e-n-s, can it be possible that after decades of knitting this is the first time I have ever seen this method for binding off? How ridiculously simple. It's marvelous!
Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!!
Thank youGuest
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I haven’t tried this on hand-knitting, but it sounds like one of the ways I bind off on a knitting machine. It’s been a while since I used my machine, but it seems to be the same - start at the end opposite the working yarn, lift each stitch onto the next needle, draw the stitch from that needle through, repeat until you get to the end and pull the working yarn through. If it is the same, I found the resulting edge to be a bit tighter than the knitted stitches, which is good if you want a firm edge, but not good if you want a stretchy one, so maybe experimenting on a swatch is called for here.GuestLast edited by Guest; 08-30-2019, 08:20 AM.
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