Grafted K1P1 Bind Off in the Round // Technique Tuesday

[@tracyvision]

It’s the little things. The tip you give for tight purl stitches - to bring the yarn needle between the stitches first and then through the purl stitch knit-wise? That. Changed. My. Life. Thank you for another outstanding lesson Roxanne!

[@maebird530]

So, initially, I was not pulling the stitches tight enough (maybe because other bind off methods require you to do so VERY loosely in order to get any reasonable amount of stretch...) but I went back and snugged them up a bit and it turned out amazing! (I even said wow! outloud to myself when I held it up for final examination 😆) That turned out so great! I know I will be returning to this video many times in the future. Your "speed" of teaching was perfect for me. (As an intermediate knitter :) Thank you!!!!

[@jandroid1962]

I only recently ever heard of a sewn bind off and said to myself, "I hope Roxanne Richardson has a video on this." Thank you! I love this bind off. My sock looks so cool.

[@RoxanneRichardson]

The other two types of sewn bind off are *the* sewn bind off: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmqUhWSujpWZrbc and the Half-Hitch BO (aka Outline Stitch BO/Stem Stitch BO/Casting-on Cast Off) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKexkqJndtiorMU

[@baeleef_]

I’ll be returning to this video until the end of time 🙌 it’s perfect for even edges on moss stitch scarves in which I’ve been making several at a time lately. It matches the quick cast on method that you posted as well. That cast on method is so easy to remember and makes starting projects way less daunting. I love how you can’t tell the difference between the top and the bottom of my scarves and makes the edges perfect for the worsted wool drape. Honestly I would be driving myself crazy if you didn’t post this video so god bless 🙌🙌

[@knitgirl.7676]

I return to this every time for that last little step. Thanks so much!

[@Sequoya]

Thanks Roxanne, I’ll be visiting this tutorial many times over the next week in preparation as I’m finishing my first cable knit sweater. This is the same process the designer suggested, but more in depth and a better way to execute. I’m often checking out the technique Tuesday videos as my knitting knowledge grows.

[@KatyMacky]

Amazing video Roxanne, thank you so much. I am familiar by now with grafting but this is comletely new to me, so I'm going to have a little practice run before I use it on my current project

[@allisonbyrd]

Thanks for this really clear demonstration, and, as always, for explaining not only what is going on, but also WHY! Love your videos, Roxanne!

[@fionaarmstrong6587]

This is just the guide I needed. Made the cast off much easier. Thank you

[@kerrifarnsworth-hoback2307]

Thanks for teaching this technique! I tried both flat and round versions on a split sweater hem.

[@RoxanneRichardson]

Wonderful!

[@debpernell8846]

This by far surpasses any other tutorial. You explained the technique clearly bur also the logic behind the technique. so helpful instead of just learning it once for a bind off and then forgetting about it until i need it for another project. Thank You.

[@Richard_Szobi]

Thank you Rox, right now finished fingerless gloves as per your instructions and with italian bind off from this great video. Greetings from Prague

[@fleursdegigi]

Thank you professor Roxanne! Just did my first sleeve bind off of my Lunenberg sweater, adore the clean and seemless look of that method, you explained it so well. Hi from Atlantic 🇨🇦

[@JennyJenn831]

Thank you! I watched a half dozen videos on this and yours was the first that made it so clear!

[@malenadoty5643]

Took me while, but I finally got it! Of course, I'll be coming back to this on the next sleeve... and the next, and the next. lol.

[@tracys.5143]

Thanks Roxanne! Couldn't wish for a better tutorial, especially after seeing the one for flat tubular bind off, first. Mystery demystified! 😊👍❤

[@KS-ew8ml]

I always failed at this bind off so I just stopped trying. But it finally made sense when I watched your video! Remembering to work the knits from the front and purls from the back is what worked for me. Thank you!!

[@RoxanneRichardson]

Glad it helped!

[@brendawalker7476]

Another very useful tip! Your superb techniques produce beautiful results!

[@allisonbyrd]

Thanks!

[@jenniferrich5292]

Lovely! I’ll be binding off a sock today, and I generally knit toe up with this very bind off, and this sock won’t have that wonky last stitch!!🥰

[@sheryltisdale]

Thank you for a great technique and I just love your sweater!

[@ewasmith3085]

I love this so much! I've used it again and again. Fantastic technique explained perfectly ❤

[@eirracak1376]

Fabulous technique and teacher. I always come here first! I have improved so much from watching Roxanne! 👍🏻👍🏻

[@theastewart6721]

Fantastic tutorial! Time to do a swatch and try this! Many thanks!!🤗🤗

[@leahh9284]

So helpful! Great for finishing a sweater

[@KLJohnson1111]

One alternate way that I think is much easier is to do this graft with all the purls having their stitch mount reversed. It means you never have to bring your needle through between the stitches. For purl stitches, you bring the needle through as if to ptbl, slide off, and then through the back leg from right to left and leave on.

[@olive5890]

Impecable explanation, thank you!

[@allisonbyrd]

Roxanne, one question. . . I’ve seen this bind off worked by some knitters with 2 (or 4) set-up rounds, where the 1st (and 3rd, if worked) round has the knit stitches being knit and the purl stitches being slipped purlwise with yarn in front, and where the 2nd (and 4th, if worked) round has the knit stitches being slipped purlwise with yarn in back and the purl stitches being purled, in order to “separate” the front and back fabrics (like in double-knitting), before working the sewn bind off. Is there any benefit (or drawback) to doing it that way if the bind off is being used for the edge of a 1x1 ribbed turtleneck that has to be pulled over the head? For instance, is one way more, or less, stretchy than the other? Also, are there certain applications that would benefit from working those set-up rounds, or is it usually an unnecessary step? Thanks in advance for your reply!

[@frozenrogue8970]

This is the most clear, too bad I didn’t find that yesterday.

[@demainestunautrejour3058]

You're the best !! Thank you ! 😊

[@TraceyParkerPiano59]

Thank you!

[@carolsmiley8178]

Thank you. What a beautiful result this technique creates. I would live to understand the reason for the setup. For thus technique and others like it, e,g. Kichener grafting.

[@RoxanneRichardson]

Sometimes the setup and final step can be skipped. With any type of sewn bind off, the yarn tail is sewn through every stitch twice, and when you are inserting the needle through the sts in pairs, the needle is going through the first st for the second time, and the second stitch for the first time. You can think of the setup as going through an imaginary first stitch for the second time, before entering a real stitch for the first time. "Pretend knit off, real purl on; pretend purl off, real knit on."

[@marylousadler4137]

Thank you for this video. Could their be done with a k2 p2 and how.

[@annieyoung4]

What is your favourite bind off for ribbed sweater cuffs? Especially small circumference children sweaters. Thank you.

[@RoxanneRichardson]

Sewn bind offs are usually stretchy enough for cuffs, so that would include "the" sewn bind off, the grafted bind off (for k1p1 ribbing), or half-hitch (outline stitch) bind off. The last one matches the smooth side of the long tail cast on.

[@etm567]

I am very short waisted in the back. I've knitted sweaters for other people -- my husband and my son -- that fit pretty well, but I've never really succeeded in one for myself. I'm impatient and don't keep measuring my tension and doing the math as I should. So I go from, oh, dear, I made it too small, to oh, dear, I made it too big, back to oh, dear, too small, and so on. I've just finished the first sleeve on a sweater that I think is too big and too short, so I'm going to take the bottom bind off out and unknit to just above the waist, I t hink, switch to a smaller needle, and try to do some short rows as if for a big belly, but intended to take out all that extra fabric I have in the back because of my short waist. It also seems as if a couple of darts down the back might help, but I don't really know. So I'm going to try short rows, but I don't really know how far around they should come, and I don't know if I should start with a shorter row, gradually make them longer, going around my side just a little way into the back, and then back around the front.... But do I finish off after making the longest row, or should I start reducing the length of the rows again, so the wedges of extra fabric are sort of two trapezoids stacked with their long sides abutting? (SOrry if this is as unclear to you as it seems to me.) In a way I guess this would be sort of like short rows for a big belly, only not, and so I guess they should start at the side of my waist, and then gradually get a little longer going toward the small of my back? My waist length in the back is about an inch and a half shorter than in the front. I look really swaybacked, but actually I am not -- that according to the chiropracter, who says I actually had straightened my back out too much while I was young and studying ballet pretty seriously. You know, you try to put the small of your back against the wall, and try to make yourself taller by stretchying up? You can definitely overdo it. That's off topic, sorry, but as swaybacked as I look, I am not, but to make a sweater fit, I have to knit it as if for someone swaybacked.

[@raquellak6551]

Thanks for this tutorial! I come back to it for a refresher every time I am binding off ribbing :). I do find that I get a little flare with this method- not actually flaring out wider, but just enough that the ribbing looks slightly stretched out even when it’s just sitting flat. I thought that was possibly just the result of this method, but your sample doesn’t look like that. Is there something I should be looking out for?

[@RoxanneRichardson]

Probably just maintaining the right amount of tension as you work the grafted bind off.

[@raquellak6551]

@@RoxanneRichardson thanks!

[@sonmarmat]

Great video!! I have 2 questions: How does the stretchy-ness of this method compare with the ribbing? And how would you modify it to do k2p2 ribbing?

[@deborahlee7975]

I am wondering the same thing (how to do this with k2p2 rib).

[@sonmarmat]

@@deborahlee7975 I can't remember how I ended up doing this with the k2p2, but I do remember that I was able to figure it out after watching a couple of the other videos in Roxanne's "Sewn Bind Offs" playlist.

[@deborahlee7975]

@@sonmarmat That’s good! I just went with ‘cast off in pattern’ because it was just a fingerless mitt. I did find a video that went through how to do it, but it involved changing the rib pattern to k1p1 and seemed super tedious. Maybe one day! 💭

[@lesleydrury1240]

Is it possible to do an edge like this on plain stockinette stitch? Or do u need the purls?

[@juliegogo2941]

Could you do a normal cast of or a ornamental cast off.... Then do the needle graft at the very end? Thanks interesting cast off. I do understand the unequal knit around stripping is hard or has a separate technique..

[@RoxanneRichardson]

A regular bind off is the process of working the sts off the left hand needle, so that they become the final row of sts under the right hand needle, and the sts on the right hand needle are then chained off. You're simply working a row in pattern, and then transforming the new loops on the right hand needle into the edge. Without live sts, there isn't anything to graft.

[@juliegogo2941]

@@RoxanneRichardson I see... thanks backwards

[@anitabechtel5180]

Wonderful video. though knitting many years i have avoided this bind off. two questions. does this bind off work for the twisted 1x1 rib method? Second, i still find my 1x1 rib to not look as neat and tidy as say by 2x2. In the past I have CO another stitch to make 2x2 work. I often like to follow the designer's pattern so would appreciate any help or videos you can point me towards. Thank you so much. PS I bought you 4 coffees so you can keep your videos coming. 😁

[@RoxanneRichardson]

I would suggest knitting a swatch (or two!) and experimenting to see if you like the results with twisted rib. The structure of a twisted knit stitch is different than an untwisted st, so the ribbing pattern wouldn't roll around the edge in quite the same way as untwisted rib. The untwisted grafted edge might still work well enough that you'd be happy with it, which is why I suggest swatching and doing some experimentation. 1x1 rib is typically not as tidy as 2x2 ribbing, because 1x1 sts are more enlarged.

[@danalear8562]

How do you work this bind off on a large number of stitches like a hem without shredding the yarn or getting it hopelessly tangled?

[@RoxanneRichardson]

Just measure off a reasonable amount to handle (say, a yard), and when you are down to the last 4-6'', join another length of yarn and continue on. YOu can weave in those tails later, once the bind off is complete.

[@danalear8562]

@@RoxanneRichardson Of course! 🤦🏼‍♀

[@annieyoung4]

Is this also known as the Italian Bind off? What’s the stretchiest cast off for toe up socks?

[@RoxanneRichardson]

The grafted bind off is the final step of a tubular (or Italian bind off). The steps of working several rounds of double knitting to create the tube of the tubular (Italian) bind off are not required in order to do the grafted bind off. Without the double knitting the edge is flatter. There are lots of bind offs that are stretchy enough for toe up socks. Some are more attractive than others. Any sewn bind off (grafted, half-hitch, or the bind off that's called "the sewn bind off") is typically stretchy enough. There are lots of others that add yarn in the bind off process in some way and which can be easily ripped out if you don't like the result, such as Jeny's surprisingly stretchy bind off. Sewn bind offs have to be picked out, stitch by stitch.

[@kimberleeameyer]

I noticed how flexible your cable was in this bind off tutorial. What brand needles and cable are you using?

[@RoxanneRichardson]

Should be in the video description.

[@victoriapileski3966]

Did you and Suzanne Bryant decide to demonstrate the same technique this week? I guess repetition is good for memory🤣

[@kdunlap3289]

I'm left handed and I think II'm doing this bindoff the way you, Suzanne and Maryna do in the videos, only the opposite direction. BUT my edge doesn't look near as smooth and rounded as in the videos. I wish I had someone watching to tell me what's wrong.

[@RoxanneRichardson]

It's likely just a tension issue, making sure you snug up the yarn, but not leaving it too loose or too tight. Do you knit mirror, or are you just working the graft in the mirrored direction? It might help to remount all the sts with an eastern mount (leading/right leg over the back of the needle) prior to working the graft.

[@sarahhmbrd2562]

camera work is not helpful. can't see all that's happening here.

[@MeanwhileattheCastle]

Thanks!

[@RoxanneRichardson]

You're welcome! :-)

[@tracyvision]

Thanks!

[@RoxanneRichardson]

You're welcome! :-)

[@marylumetz2782]

Thanks!

[@RoxanneRichardson]

You bet!