Thanks! Have been knitting for 40 years. You've become my guru Roxanne. Satisfaction for me is improving details. You are amazing. ed from philadelphia
I have been coming back to this video at least fout times. Everytime I needed to do this bind-off, I check it out here:-) It has been my favourite seam finish for any stockinette stitch projects. Thank you so much for teaching me, Roxanne, you are my favourite knitting teacher on this whole site!
This bind off is new to me. I love the way it looks and would like to see it applied to shoulders where short rows were used to avoid the stair-step effect. While I lean toward the invisible join/bind off, I would also be interested in the decorative bind off used by the Coast Salish knitters. Thank you so much for all of the wonderful tips and tricks in your videos.
Very cool! Love to see this applied to a hat. I could definitely see how this would be useful for things like socks and hats when you don’t have circular needles.
This is really interesting and something I have never seen before. It would be great to see other variations on how to apply this. Also, could be nice to see how to do this in the English Throwing method. It feels like it could be pretty different on the right side. Thanks so much for sharing!
Yes, I second the request to see what it's like using this technique when holding the yarn in your right hand. I love how much I learn from these videos!
Thanks so much for demonstrating this bind off method. I used it to close up the heel of a Drops Design felted slipper. Worked perfectly!!! I had no trouble knitting from the left because that's how I purl when knitting a flat piece so I don't have to turn the work over and it maintains the tension well
I am really enjoying knitting these socks, and this video was super useful with the bind off. Once I got started it was so easy to do as I have practiced knitting backwards in the past, knitting bobbles without turning the work. Thank you so much and yes, I’d love to see an exploration of other ways of using this bind off, and maybe even how to knit the Cowichan collar, as shown in the book Knitting in the Old Way, which I see you also have on your shelf!
Hi Roxanne. This is really cool. I’ve never seen this before. You explained and demonstrated it so well. I’d love to see how this can be used in other contexts. Thanks for another great tutorial.💕
Hi there, Happy New Year. I was holding my breath while you were doing that very tricky bindoff. You can laugh but you know what you are doing. Mine would have blown out, like the other things I try and wreck. Lovely to see you. Take care.
This is so interesting and I'd love to see other applications. Just finishing the first sock of your pattern. I found the heel to be easy but a little awkward 😅. Overall, I'm loving learning more ways to heel. Love all your videos. Thank you.
Wow, what a great technique! I definitely want to try this, but I'll certainly be practising it before it goes into the real item. The "backwards" part of the bind off looks pretty tricky to do. I'd sure hate to try it with a yarn that splits a lot. I'd love to see it applied to other scenarios! I'd be particularly interested in using it to join two separate pieces of fabric, but the others sounds very interesting as well! Now, I'm also curious what the Coast Salish technique is and how it differs from this one... Thank you for the great lesson!
Could this bind-off be used instead of a three-needle bind-off on, for example, on sweater shoulder seams? I would like to see more videos using this technique on sock toes, shoulder seams, hat tops. So interesting that you were able to reverse-engineer this new-to-me bind-off from a historic sock! You rock.
Years ago, I knit my mother a chunky cabled vest. I never liked the bulk of the seams at the shoulder and wish I'd known about this technique back then.
Great video. I would also like to see this bind off used for other purposes. I’d also be very interested in seeing if this would be possible somehow for binding off the toes for socks. Thanks so very much and happy new year!
I know! It's so cool, isn't it? When I was first studying the original sock, I could understand conceptually what was going on (alternating binding off from each set of needles, using the same working yarn), but I couldn't quite work out how to make it happen spatially. Knitting backwards was the key for this method. For the Cowichan sweaters, the process uses the standard method of binding off, and requires holding the two needles parallel, using a third needle to bind off each needle alternately, using opposite ends of the needle.
I shall be trying this out for sure.. hopefully will make the join on my baby booties even smoother than the three needle bind off.., I need to do a swatch-I am intrigued as to where the ‘purl bump’ at the back of the knitting goes 🤪 Would definitely like to see this used on other ways and can it be used with garter stitch? 😊
You can use it with garter stitch, but it isn't going to have the same effect as with stockinette. I suggest trying it on some swatches to see what you think.
@@RoxanneRichardson I too wondered about the effect when joining two separate garter stitch fabric. I would prefer a non-visible outcome. But when I've used kitchener stitch, for a diagonal blanket with 60 stitches plus, I lose concentration and make a mess. Anyway I'll have a swatch up session using this double cast off method. Thank you.
I was indeed wandering if this method was usuable for binding of the toe of a sock in stead of my usual three-needle-bindoff or maybe more usual kitchener stitch. I would be nice if you explore this with your expertise and wisdom. thanks anyway!
Thank you so much I appreciate that And I would love to know more what else we can use it Also I would like to watch the whole video for the socks if it is possible please
Do you think this would offer the same amount of structure that a 3NBO gives? I really like how this looks and I’m curious about the possibility of adapting it for shoulder seams!
Happy New Year Roxanne! Your videos are great, very informative and well presented, thank you so much. Could this technique be used to bind off sloped shoulders?
I love this double bindoff. Have you knitted backwards? It's the same as that second part only you're going into one stitch at a time. I love it for short rows.
I hadn't knit backwards in years, which is one of the reasons it took me a while to get this figured out. I understood conceptually what I needed to do, but couldn't figure out how to execute it.
When I was first figuring out the sock, I thought it did use the Cowichan method. I explained it in a segment of my Casual Friday podcast here: ua-cam.com/video/aaO3FIISqgc/v-deo.html. After I published that video, I realized there was another way that was more likely used by a Norwegian knitter, and explained it in the following Casual Friday podcast. The woman in possession of the original sock had been taught how to knit the heel, but couldn't quite remember how to do it. Once she saw each of the two methods, and practiced them, she confirmed it was the one I demonstrated in this video.
This is wonderful and so useful, but will we still eventually be getting a video on decreasing hat crowns in pattern? Sorry, I feel so ungrateful for asking-- I have just been really looking forward to get your specific video on that topic!
That video is on the schedule for next week. I normally post TT videos every other week. This video was inserted into the schedule because of the release of the sock pattern.
Could this double bind off be used to connect the two halves of a fair isle sweater. I want to knit the body and sleeves from the bottom up, then knit the collar and stranded yoke from the top down but have never come across a good way to join the two halves that appear seamless. Please advise me of any way to do this.
While the bind off looks very much like grafting, I don't know that I would use it as a substitute for grafting at such a visible location in the sweater. I would use standard grafting. If you're worried about working with live sts, you could use the toe chimney method of grafting, which has you work each of the sets of live sts in waste yarn for several rows. You can then join the two pieces of fabric, using the contrast waste yarn as a guide. I have a number of videos on grafting on my channel: ua-cam.com/play/PL1AZxTfSCe2fViiJQHPX0jfV1KVQVSmmQ.html
It would effectively join the live sts, but it wouldn't so anything about the inevitable holes that you get at either end. YOu'd most likely want to join the grafting yarn by working some duplicate stitch in the fabric up to the point where the join was to begin, and then use the tail at the end to do something similar. The nice thing about using it for that application would be that you'd have the extra stability you get from a BO chain to help reinforce the underarm.
@@RoxanneRichardson I was thinking about those holes at either end; and you answered that question for me, too! I'm excited to try this. Thank you so much!! 😊
Nice to see this technique once more, yes I would be interested to see this double bind off in multiple other contexts.
Amazing! Yes, yes, I would love to see more applications for this double blind off.
I would love to see how this is used on a sock toe. This is fascinating. Thank you so much!
Thanks!
Have been knitting for 40 years. You've become my guru Roxanne. Satisfaction for me is improving details. You are amazing. ed from philadelphia
Aw, thanks so much, Ed! I think one of the best things about knitting after all these decades is still finding new things to learn. :-)
Please do demonstrate how to use this for joining shoulders! Looks like it would be a great alternative to 3 needle bind off.
I have been coming back to this video at least fout times. Everytime I needed to do this bind-off, I check it out here:-) It has been my favourite seam finish for any stockinette stitch projects. Thank you so much for teaching me, Roxanne, you are my favourite knitting teacher on this whole site!
This really appeals to the "geek" in me. I would love to see more uses for this old, but new, bind-off technique.
This bind off is new to me. I love the way it looks and would like to see it applied to shoulders where short rows were used to avoid the stair-step effect. While I lean toward the invisible join/bind off, I would also be interested in the decorative bind off used by the Coast Salish knitters. Thank you so much for all of the wonderful tips and tricks in your videos.
I was wondering if this could be used on a sweater. I would love to see the Coast Salish version.
Would love to see additional double bind off. ❤
I would love to see more ways of using this technique, as well as other methods of getting the same or similar results. Yes, please!
Really would like to see this binding used on other items. My seams are not pretty this technique could improve that greatly.
Very cool! Love to see this applied to a hat. I could definitely see how this would be useful for things like socks and hats when you don’t have circular needles.
Yes please show other techniques please
This is really interesting and something I have never seen before. It would be great to see other variations on how to apply this. Also, could be nice to see how to do this in the English Throwing method. It feels like it could be pretty different on the right side.
Thanks so much for sharing!
Yes, I second the request to see what it's like using this technique when holding the yarn in your right hand. I love how much I learn from these videos!
This is awesome, I would love to see the adjustment needed for joining squares for a blanket, if you could add that to your list, please?
Thanks so much for demonstrating this bind off method. I used it to close up the heel of a Drops Design felted slipper. Worked perfectly!!! I had no trouble knitting from the left because that's how I purl when knitting a flat piece so I don't have to turn the work over and it maintains the tension well
Very interesting. I love learning new stuff. I’d like to see shoulder seams with the decorative bind off.
I love this bind off and look forward to trying it. I'd also love to see videos using this in other contexts. Thank you, Rox!
I just keep finding new things to learn. Thank you!!
I would like to see more of this BO in different situations.
Yes, please do expound on other ways to use this double join bindoff!
I am really enjoying knitting these socks, and this video was super useful with the bind off. Once I got started it was so easy to do as I have practiced knitting backwards in the past, knitting bobbles without turning the work. Thank you so much and yes, I’d love to see an exploration of other ways of using this bind off, and maybe even how to knit the Cowichan collar, as shown in the book Knitting in the Old Way, which I see you also have on your shelf!
Hi Roxanne. This is really cool. I’ve never seen this before. You explained and demonstrated it so well. I’d love to see how this can be used in other contexts. Thanks for another great tutorial.💕
Fascinating & excellent demo! Loved learning about the Coast Salish connection! Would love to see more, if you are so inclined!
Thank you so much!!!! I would absolutely love to see other applications and their respective 'tweaks'.
Hi there, Happy New Year. I was holding my breath while you were doing that very tricky bindoff. You can laugh but you know what you are doing. Mine would have blown out, like the other things I try and wreck. Lovely to see you. Take care.
Yes, I would like to see it used in other garments.
This is so interesting and I'd love to see other applications. Just finishing the first sock of your pattern. I found the heel to be easy but a little awkward 😅. Overall, I'm loving learning more ways to heel. Love all your videos. Thank you.
Love this technique and would love to see more.
I will use this to close a hoddie. Thank you!!!
Yes, more on this, please!
Very interesting, can't wait to knit the socks!
I would be interested to see this in other styles of knitting.
I'd love to see the tweaks for using this bind off on a sock toe.
Wow! So very interesting. Thanks.
Great! I would like to see more. Thank you
I have an idea that this technique would be handy for closing the hood on a garter stitch hooded scarf!
Yes more scenariios please
Please demonstrate how to bind off at the shoulder seams using this technique
Wow, what a great technique! I definitely want to try this, but I'll certainly be practising it before it goes into the real item. The "backwards" part of the bind off looks pretty tricky to do. I'd sure hate to try it with a yarn that splits a lot. I'd love to see it applied to other scenarios! I'd be particularly interested in using it to join two separate pieces of fabric, but the others sounds very interesting as well! Now, I'm also curious what the Coast Salish technique is and how it differs from this one... Thank you for the great lesson!
Yes please, more contexts
Very interesting! I to would like to understand others ways to use. Thanks
Could this bind-off be used instead of a three-needle bind-off on, for example, on sweater shoulder seams? I would like to see more videos using this technique on sock toes, shoulder seams, hat tops. So interesting that you were able to reverse-engineer this new-to-me bind-off from a historic sock! You rock.
Thank you
Very interesting!!!
Years ago, I knit my mother a chunky cabled vest. I never liked the bulk of the seams at the shoulder and wish I'd known about this technique back then.
Very nice
This looks hard!
So clever!
Totally Cool!
Great video. I would also like to see this bind off used for other purposes. I’d also be very interested in seeing if this would be possible somehow for binding off the toes for socks. Thanks so very much and happy new year!
Ditto with request for more uses. Why do we not "know" this seamless technique?
I know! It's so cool, isn't it? When I was first studying the original sock, I could understand conceptually what was going on (alternating binding off from each set of needles, using the same working yarn), but I couldn't quite work out how to make it happen spatially. Knitting backwards was the key for this method. For the Cowichan sweaters, the process uses the standard method of binding off, and requires holding the two needles parallel, using a third needle to bind off each needle alternately, using opposite ends of the needle.
It's a complete "Through the Looking Glass" technique. Maybe it's what that sheep was knitting in Chapter V.
I have been looking for an easier way to join shoulders with 1x1 ribbing other than grafting. So glad to see this
I shall be trying this out for sure.. hopefully will make the join on my baby booties even smoother than the three needle bind off..,
I need to do a swatch-I am intrigued as to where the ‘purl bump’ at the back of the knitting goes 🤪
Would definitely like to see this used on other ways and can it be used with garter stitch? 😊
You can use it with garter stitch, but it isn't going to have the same effect as with stockinette. I suggest trying it on some swatches to see what you think.
@@RoxanneRichardson I too wondered about the effect when joining two separate garter stitch fabric. I would prefer a non-visible outcome. But when I've used kitchener stitch, for a diagonal blanket with 60 stitches plus, I lose concentration and make a mess. Anyway I'll have a swatch up session using this double cast off method. Thank you.
Thanks. I'd love to see more applications of this technique.
Yes it would be great to see demonstrations in other scenarios.
I was indeed wandering if this method was usuable for binding of the toe of a sock in stead of my usual three-needle-bindoff or maybe more usual kitchener stitch. I would be nice if you explore this with your expertise and wisdom. thanks anyway!
I’d like to see the bind odd used to join two sections with the chain showing as a decorative join on a cowl. Also the shoulder join you talked about.
Please more context. Would it work for shoulder seams?
Thank you so much I appreciate that
And I would love to know more what else we can use it
Also I would like to watch the whole video for the socks if it is possible please
Do you think this would offer the same amount of structure that a 3NBO gives? I really like how this looks and I’m curious about the possibility of adapting it for shoulder seams!
Happy New Year Roxanne!
Your videos are great, very informative and well presented, thank you so much.
Could this technique be used to bind off sloped shoulders?
I love this double bindoff. Have you knitted backwards? It's the same as that second part only you're going into one stitch at a time. I love it for short rows.
I hadn't knit backwards in years, which is one of the reasons it took me a while to get this figured out. I understood conceptually what I needed to do, but couldn't figure out how to execute it.
Thank you for showing technique i see you are using the zing needles hiw do you like them
I'm using Signature Needle Arts circs.
So how does the cowichan version work I wonder? Would love to know how it's done. Thanx again for giving your time.
When I was first figuring out the sock, I thought it did use the Cowichan method. I explained it in a segment of my Casual Friday podcast here: ua-cam.com/video/aaO3FIISqgc/v-deo.html. After I published that video, I realized there was another way that was more likely used by a Norwegian knitter, and explained it in the following Casual Friday podcast. The woman in possession of the original sock had been taught how to knit the heel, but couldn't quite remember how to do it. Once she saw each of the two methods, and practiced them, she confirmed it was the one I demonstrated in this video.
This is wonderful and so useful, but will we still eventually be getting a video on decreasing hat crowns in pattern? Sorry, I feel so ungrateful for asking-- I have just been really looking forward to get your specific video on that topic!
That video is on the schedule for next week. I normally post TT videos every other week. This video was inserted into the schedule because of the release of the sock pattern.
@@RoxanneRichardson Whoops, I'm off-schedule. Thank you!
When would you use this technique? For what projects?
Can you use this double bind off for the Toe as well? I would love to see it for the Toe.
Please show us more. I am not fond of 3 needle bind off.
Could this double bind off be used to connect the two halves of a fair isle sweater. I want to knit the body and sleeves from the bottom up, then knit the collar and stranded yoke from the top down but have never come across a good way to join the two halves that appear seamless. Please advise me of any way to do this.
While the bind off looks very much like grafting, I don't know that I would use it as a substitute for grafting at such a visible location in the sweater. I would use standard grafting. If you're worried about working with live sts, you could use the toe chimney method of grafting, which has you work each of the sets of live sts in waste yarn for several rows. You can then join the two pieces of fabric, using the contrast waste yarn as a guide. I have a number of videos on grafting on my channel: ua-cam.com/play/PL1AZxTfSCe2fViiJQHPX0jfV1KVQVSmmQ.html
Could this bind-off be used to 'graft' live underarm stitches on a sweater knitted in-the-round? 🙂
It would effectively join the live sts, but it wouldn't so anything about the inevitable holes that you get at either end. YOu'd most likely want to join the grafting yarn by working some duplicate stitch in the fabric up to the point where the join was to begin, and then use the tail at the end to do something similar. The nice thing about using it for that application would be that you'd have the extra stability you get from a BO chain to help reinforce the underarm.
@@RoxanneRichardson I was thinking about those holes at either end; and you answered that question for me, too! I'm excited to try this. Thank you so much!! 😊