How to bind my ipod sock?

#1

i recently got a 60GB ipod video (i :heart: it) and it was getting scratched (yea, the black one scratches badly) so i found this pattern when i searched for ipod knit:

I have finished knitting the pattern, but it’s just a rectangle of knitting, and i don’t know how to finish it off so that it’s a tube/closed cylinder. I have one stitch remaining on the bind off and I was wondering if there’s a way to knit the tube together, or if I just have to sew it, and if so, how do i do that and how do i finish the last stitch remaining to be bound?

I used this site’s methods for casting on and binding off in the american versions, and i have a super long tail on the beginning and the running end is still intact. so how do i finish this project? thanks :wink:

#2

For the last stitch in a bind off, cut your yarn, pull it through the last loop and tighten. If the yarn that you pull through is in the right place for you to begin sewing, pull a long enough piece through for that.

Then watch this video on the mattress stitch.

#3

ingrid, can i do the matress stitch on stuff on the edge? because if be rectangle looks like this:

[color=white]…[/color]________(@) <–ball of yarn
end || <-- i need to sew there and there
[color=white]…[/color]^

i’d like if i could use the running string to do the sides together and the bottom and then tie the running and the end string off together in a good knot. is this ok? and is it more just like sewing rather than knitting?

*edit: it seems that the forum doesn’t allow lines to begin with spaces, so i fixed the diagram. there are periods leading up to the end of the top of the rectangle but i made them white so you can’t see them

#4

:?? I don’t quite understand your picture.

In the video, Amy is sewing together a camera cozy, along the edge, which is where mattress stitch works best. You can sew it anyway you want, of course, its just that mattress stitch makes a nice invisible seam–from the outside anyway.

#5

i think i get it now, but the video was poor quality, it seemed to be s p a c e y between the frames, and she didn’t show how to start it, so can you explain the matress stitch please? thanks :wink:

and i fixed the diagram… :doh:

#6

Here is a good article on mattress stitch with excellent illustrations.

#7

yes, that is perfect. muchas gracias. :cheering:

thanks for such quick response!