koski welcome to net on if you watch my previous show you know that we did cast ons as well as bindaas and there was a really great bindoff that we didn't get time for in that segment so i wanted to bring that to you today because it's a really useful one especially if you're doing a project where you're bindoff needs to be sort of freestanding it's not in a scene and you need a little bit of a decorative edge there on that bindoff and it's called an eye co bindoff some of you have probably seen me here on the shoe do i cord just on it and now we're going to incorporate it into this bindoff so what i've done is i've set up a swatch where i've just done some stock in that stitch and i'm ready to go ahead and bind these pink stitches off what it's going to require you to do for your cord is to cast on three extra stitches and i did those in red so that it so that you will be able to see it here on the show a little more easily when you're using this a lot of times what you're going to be doing is doing it in the same color as your knitting although you could do a two color four in a fact these are not t colors that i wouldn't necessarily put together but they were the ones that i brought to the show so that you would be able to see them pretty easily so what's going to happen is that these three stitches that we had cast on the first two or going to get knitted as we would normally knit the third one is going to be slipped knit the next ditch and we pass this slipped one which was our number three stitch over so you can see how about walks down onto the lot of stitches that we had that were ready to be found off then all three of those stitches are going to come back on to the left hand needle we're going to tug a little bit just the way we would with a regular i cord you remember how we sort of pull that and that's how we get that co and pull the third over the fourth all three of them come back to the left hand needle tug a little bit and again so you can see that's going to take a little bit of time because you are you know a knitting between each found off stitch essentially but it's really well worth your while it's going to be applicable in things like a purse or even a felted purse the first time that i ever saw this done actually was was on a felt tip purse pattern but something where that bound off is going to need to be really sturdy and have a little more of a decorative effect and as i have worked across there you can see let me see if i can get this on the camera for  is very much like your i chord is going to be that circular formation that sort of rolls in on itself let me turn to even backwards for you and you can see that even that that first of the stitches you can see from the back and that's how you're getting that courted edge on your bindoff now there again that's something that you can do as a tutorial on it pixar com if you need a little more information about accomplishing this this technique on your next project and if you don't have that link you can always email me at cherry so koski at yahoo dot com and i'll get you their website and tell you how to get into their to tauriel section so that you can see those directions have all still shots but really great explanations of how to do that on your next project the next one that i wanted to show you is a really great technique and i have some ideas on how we might use this but it's a border stitch babbles and we normally think of babbles as being on like some really great air and cardigans you know in among the cables and the lattice work and what have you you'll see a lot of babbles and we've done them here on the show a number of times  this is on the edge i did it in a worsted weight yarn i actually think that i might like it better in a little finer yarn to give you a little more delicate edging but for the show in order to be able to see the technique and see how it looks finished i did do it in a little heavier yarn but i can see this actually being like the edging on a baby blanket or something like that maybe on a little three quarter length colored again maybe being on the sleeve or what have you so what happens is we're on a stitch base then as we all know quarter stitches knitted on every row and we get these great symmetrical sort of lines on both sides which keep it from going which is going to be really good on your border because then you have that nice border that isn't rolling more doing anything that you don't want it to do so at the end we're going to cast on two stitches and we're going to do and they did cast on which i've demonstrated in earlier shows and you can also find that on your nit picks tutorials but we're going to cast on two stitches and then into that second stitch that we just put on which is now on our end we're going to knit and purl into that same stitch to create five stitches so we're going to knit pearl net pearl and then one more net so that's going to give us five then we're going to term we're going to work on just those five stitches in order to create the babble so we're going to work back and forth on those five stitches five times and that's one of the beauties really of doing garden stitches even if you've got yourself confused with how many of these little rows you had done or how many times you had turned or maybe the phone rings or someone comes to the door or whatever with growth or stitch is the easiest thing in the world to just count those ridges you're going to have you know three on one side and two on the other and then you're going to know of course that you've done the five rows and you can see i'm not coming into the rest of this border at all i'm just staying on those five stitches and turning at the end of the five either direction that i'm going so you can see i have one ridge on this side two on the other so i need to do to morrow i'll try to do those real quickly so we can get on with the rest of this bottle but as i said i think this is a really great edging technique i think it could even be put on something that wasn't knitted you know if you did like a little flannel or fleece blanket and wanted to maybe dress that up a little bit as a gift you know just doing and edging would be obviously quicker than doing the whole blanket if you wanted to have a little bit of maybe a cheater's technique to do as a gift would be perfectly acceptable i think very special so we're going to at the end of those five rows then we're going to take stitches two through five and find those off over stitch number one and here again we're still just working on the five that are the bobble and i'm having a little bit of trouble getting that today my hands are a little shaky so i'll just do it by hand without my other needle so those are then bound off onto that first stitch then we will turn and come back in to the border and you can see there's a space there we're going to close up that space we're going to knit the first one slip the second one bring that back over so and then we are going to be back to the five base stitches that we had fo that edging this is a let me check my notes this is an eight row repeat so we're going to have seven stitches me seven rows of quarter in between working the babbles and and the border part is also five stitches so very easy to keep track of yourself in that way because you're always sort of working in fives other than the a row repeat the other thing that i did was that i thought that i might be able to might like to be able to use this sort of pivoted you know at a right angle if we were doing a blanket or what have you you need to do that edging and be able to turn the corner and i tried a couple of different ways of turning that corner and actually what worked best for me and you can e mail me for this little bit of the directions if you need to is to find off as i was coming back across from doing that babel row and to then pick up four stitches because when i bound off course i had one left pick up four stitches right here in this corner and it gave me the neatest corner that i could accomplish i tried with short rows and i try to couple of other things but really what i found to work best for me was to do that bindoff and then pick up and across that edge this is an edge in that i found that lion brand dot com and they have some really great stitch techniques for you to use them that's where you could find the basics for this is on lion brand dark com but if you need that little bit of extra information about where to buy and off to get that corner you can e mail me as you always do at yahoo dot com so we'll go ahead and do another technique and this one i found to be really useful and it might be something that you might like to have in your knitting repertoire a lot of times we're doing squares for things a lot of ch knitting is done first squares a lot of you know blankets that are donated to what or whatever organizations they're going to solicit you to donate squares and specific sizes or and sometimes those vary and you would need to by their guidelines but sometimes square is the longer that we met gets to be a little tedious and maybe a little bit this technique is worked entirely differently than you might be used to doing a square it's worked in the round so we actually this is our cast on edge all the way around the outside of bat and then we work to the point so i thought it was a grill really great technique for you to have in your repertoire in case you're doing some of that charity mating or other knitting that you're doing where you're doing a lot of squares and maybe you know just of course that square is getting a little boring for you so upset up the first couple of rows of this so you can see how this is going to work well on a sixteen inch circular needle because we're doing a smaller square if you were doing a really large square obviously you could use the longer circular needle than this but for what i'm doing which is my sides are twenty stitches and then there are two stitches in each corner i'll hold this back up for you again so we're going to do twenty stitches and then two in the corner twenty stitches two in the corner of the way around so obviously you're going to need some stitch markers for this as well you're going to need seven stitch markers of one color and then different one for your eight stitch marker so that you can tell where the end of your round is so my pink one is my end of round i'll slide that over and your decreases which help you turn these corners are going to tip away from your two corners stitches on each corner so the first one is going to need to lean to the left which is going to be our s s k ok i'll take that back out and do it slow for you one more time in case you've not seen me do an s s k before the first stitch is slipped the second stitch is going to be slipped and then my left hand needle is going to come back in the front and we're going to net those off and you can see how that's going to lean to the left especially with this color each of those stitches being two colors you can really see how that purple stitch is laying a little more over the rose to it and leaning to the left than we would need across to two stitches before the next marker and since that one is going to need to lean to the right that's going to be a knit two together so i reach in and i take both of them on to the working needle and met them together with the marker at the two corner stitches and then i'm just going to repeat what i did in the first section we're going to do  make that lean to the left and then across so we will just keep repeating that we're oh alternated with a plane wow until we get down to that center and when we come back from the break we'll discuss what happens when you get down to the center of that square which we've been working in a circular motion so come on back up to the  welcome back we're going to talk about this where a little bit more because i think there are some really great techniques and ideas within this project so i hold that up for you again and you can see how as we work those decreases are going to create this triangle these are the corner stitches that we were just always knitting here are decreases running alongside those creating this triangular shape within this square it's a really great technique to do i think in a space because it really gives you that circular motion or squared off motion within that square as well so it gives you that really nice effect as you've worked with this for a while you might come up with some of your own ideas with what to do with in this if you want to even make this a little more fancy you could do some stitches within your triangles i actually thought of maybe playing around with this another time and doing a little bit of cabling up through the corner stitches because you can see how you know that really lends itself to some design features both in that triangular shape as well as the ones that are coming to the center of benchley what's going to happen as with a lot of projects that we do like our came out and other things that are worked on the ground and then decreasing is that you're going to get down to your last row is going to be just knit two together all the way around the well and then your tail was going to be worked back in through those stitches and brought to the back and woven in i think this i worked this technique on a couple of different yarns and i liked it on this yarn in particular which was one hundred percent what all the first one that i did was an acrylic and the difference being with that is there critics are really very difficult to block there are a lot of restrictions with what you can do with them and well really kind of stands up to the blocking process and really is very forgiving and that point that you come down to you can really steam it or block it out and really get a nice flat flat flat finish to that square which you know you obviously want if you're doing something like a blanket or or pillow or whatever you would be working on a square for so i think while in particular is really nice for this technique because of the blocking the project once it's finished so there again we've used our mirror image to decreases our s s k s and our net two together is to create that and you know that's the beauty of being able to do decreases in different ways is that we can make them lean the way that we need for them to a technique that i found on nosing around on the internet a little bit is called what they're calling on the internet is bunny ears and it's a decrease that is symmetrical but it's over three stitches now that in itself if you're in it or seems almost impossible to have something be symmetrical over three stitches going from three stitches to two and keeping it symmetrical i worked a couple of rows and set one and i'm hoping the camera can pick it up right above my thumbnail he's getting a really great shot of it so you're going to see and the reason that they're calling that bunny ears is that that sticks right above my thumbnail is really sort of a long gated and gives that effect as you would think of you know bunny ears being on the top of the bunny its head but that is taking three stitches down to two the opposite of that i'll do here is where the stitches are coming toward the center and i'm going to work those two for you and show you how those how those a within stock and that stitch and this might be something where you know you need to do something and have it be symmetrical just in that one set of three and this would be something that you could do in order to accomplish that on your project so i'm going to knit off the edge of the stitches and here are my three middle stitches where i am going to be using in this and i'm actually going to have to use my notes just a little bit because i want to make sure that i get the right for you we're going to knit together stitch wanted too and as i let that down off i'm going to come back in two and set it front to back on my stick scuse me on my needle again that stitch number two and then i'm going to knit through the back loops on those two and you can see that that is how you get the bunny ears that are coming to the foreground so obviously we've gone from three stitches and you can see up on my needle now we have two so it's the in that those bunny ears are in casing those other two stitches it's symmetrical let me take that back out and i'll show you how to do it the opposite way put those back onto my needle so to to reverse that we're going to do an s s k and there again that second stitch we're going to reorient that put it on back to front and then we are going to knit two together on two and three and you can see how now this is leaning in this is leaning and they're coming together and you still have two stitches where we had three to begin with so that was something that i found as i was nosing around on the internet that was on a group from ravelry about something that we talked about in a previous show it's sort of a online knitting community that you can join and they have all kinds of great ideas and discussions and projects and forums and all kinds of things and that was something that i had found people were talking about it and so i thought that was something that i might need to know and that you might need to know so i decided to well if you don't have her books you might want to check her out a lot of barrier book store yarn shop and see what she's all about she's a really great sort of homey way of writing her books and talking to you but her favorite increase is to actually knit into this just in the row before and how that's going to be accomplished is you can say here is the stitch that i would normally work and we go down into the well before directly underneath and that right hand side of that previous stitch is going to be pulled up on to our working needle and knit it into then we will just knit our and it's really a very sad and you can see how it does not create any sort of hole and it's probably the most subtle increase that you can do it can also be done from the opposite side of the stitch this one as is obvious as an increase it's going to big still if you look very very hard you could see it but if you wanted to mirror image them you can also come into it from the left and what's going to happen is because this was our new stitch here this would be the row below it so you're actually going back in to underneath if you're working from your left hand side that is going to be pulled up placed on the left hand needle and  she uses this a lot in sort of a circular loop you know where you don't want much demarcation you want to vary sort of even flow from the neckline to the shoulder line without really any like a raglan seam line like we would normally think of being a very angular increase she uses this a lot in more like a circular yoke something like that where you really don't want to see those increases and if i show you after i paroled back across you can see that there was a really very very very hard to find  something that you might want to use in some of some of your techniques a couple of other things that i wanted to tell you about that are coming up i think i mentioned it last year about this time there is actually an international knit in public day and a lot of communities and softs and groups will get together and knit in public last year was not the greatest whether it's in june but it would happen to be raining last year we're hoping for better weather this year because the community  live in we're actually planning an it in public today in cannon spark if you'd like more information about it you can always e mail me the things are in the works so i don't have all the details yet but for some of you who live around canada for you'll know that we're sort of semi famous for putting chairs on the sidewalk for our fourth of july parade so we thought we might do a little bit of a knock off of that and put some chairs on the sidewalk and invite knitters from all around the cannon for community to come down and met with us we're going to have some giveaways we're going to have goodie bags we're going to have some features to that that are in the works now that you can get the details for if you email me another event that you might like to know about if you are one of the that has been thinking about doing a comfort shawl for that can spark project where the work camp this coming in if you'd still like to do that we're going to be doing a sit in it at my business which is still kathy fine art gallery we're going to be doing that may ninth and if you want to