You can also use the Standard Bind Off to take the stitches off your needles when you have been working in the magic loop. Bind off down one side of your work, turn, and adjust your knitting needles. Then, bind…
Slip Stitches onto a Stitch Holder to Work Later
When you are knitting gloves or other shaped knitwear, you may need to separate groups of live stitches. For example, when knitting gloves, you will need to separate the hand section from the thumb. To do this, you can slip…
Using Scrap Yarn Instead of Stitch Holders
If you need to use a stitch holder, but do not have one available, you can substitute a strand of scrap yarn. Using a darning needle, thread a bit of yarn through live stitches that need to be kept workable…
Make One Right (M1R)
The “make one right” increase allows you to add stitches to knitted rows that are in progress. These increases will lean toward the right, so your work will grow in a rightward direction. This increase is especially helpful in knitting…
Increases
Increases add live stitches to your knitted rows. This is useful in shaping knitwear. Gloves and mittens, for example, use increases to shape around the base of the thumb. Adding increases along one edge of a knit tube creates a…
Make One Left (M1L)
As its name suggests, the “make one left” increase is a left-leaning stitch. Use this increase to add live stitches to a work that is already in progress. This will lengthen your knitted rows and enable you to shape your…
Weave in the Cast-on Tail in the Round
At the beginning of your knit rounds, there will likely be a small jog near your slipknot. When you weave in the cast on tail on a round knit project, you can fix the jog and hide the slipknot. Use…
Weave in the Loose End on Hat Tops
Once you have taken your last stitches off the knitting needles, you can weave in your loose end to finish the tops of your knit hat projects. First, you will pull the loose end to the inside of your work.…
Draw Yarn Through Remaining Stitches
When a pattern instructs you to “draw yarn through the remaining stitches,” it is asking you to weave the yarn tail through your final live stitches. This will remove your stitches from the needles and will also keeping them from…
Finishing Knit Hats
After knitting a hat in the round, you will want to take it off the needles, then weave in your loose ends. Instead of “bind off,” many knitting patterns worked in the round will use the instruction “draw yarn through…
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