Please forgive if this has been asked a billion times before, but I tried searching and didn’t find what I was looking for…
Anyway, I have a question about binding off. I am able to do the simple bind off by carrying one loop over the next, and that works good for me. Where I get lost is on the last loop. I don’t have anything to carry over it. How do I finish it off without distorting the whole shape of the corner?
If there is a video on this site somewhere (that I also could not find), putting a link to that would also be terribly appreciated!
Kind of sounds like what I had tried previously. I hear what you’re saying, just a little hard for me to visualize (as I’m only about two weeks or so into this as a hobby! ) Will have to try again tonight. Maybe I was pulling too tightly?
You can elim the distortion/skewing of that corner…if that’s your dilemma…by working the last st tog with the left leg of the st [B]below it[/B] and THEN lifting the 2nd to last st over that st. I’ll keep the last st more aligned with the left edge.
What I always do is cut the yarn when I get to the last loop (as soon as one loop is left on the needle from binding off) and then yank my needle up with the loop still on it, pulling the rest of the tail through the whole thing. It skips the extra step of hooking the yarn through that last loop by eliminating the loop altogether. When I tighten it up it looks a little more even, and you can still just weave in the tail.
) Will have to try again tonight. Maybe I was pulling too tightly?