Hi guys, this is Clara Hudson of Wall They Play Designs and on today's video I'm going to be showing you how to do a sewn tubular bind off in the round. So if you take a look here, I have a piece that I'm working in the round and I just have a few stitches here just so I can demonstrate this to you guys. So this could be a glove or a hat and you would have more stitches but they are worked in the round. And if you take a look here at the bottom of my work you can see that I did a tubular cast on where the stitches just appear to roll over the work and our sewn tubular bind off is going to mirror that cast on. So we're going to bind off all these stitches in the round. So I'm going to show you how to do that. First thing we want to do is cut our yarn so that we can sew the stitches when we bind them off. In order to do that you want to take your working yarn and measure out about four times the circumference of your piece. So I usually when I'm working on magic loop I just wrap that around my fingers here to kind of mimic the circumference of my piece. So I go around once, twice, three, about four times, three or four is all you need. And then we're going to cut our working yarn. And then you're going to pass your yarn through a large eye tapestry needle. This is just a little easier to work your stitches on. And then I like to pull my yarn about halfway just so I don't have a super long tail that I have to content with. Okay, and since I am doing magic loop and even if you are just using a small set of circular needles in the round you want to take that back needle and drop it so it's not in your way. You don't want to catch your working yarn on it. So the first thing we're going to do is a set up before we start binding these stitches off. So to set up you're going to take a look at your left hand needle and normally you'll have a knit stitch to begin with. If not just work a purl stitch in your round and then you'll be ready to go with your knit stitch. So to set this up we're going to insert our tapestry needle from right to left. So purl wise through that first stitch and we're going to draw it through and you're going to tighten up where your stitch is coming off that previous stitch. Okay, so I kind of like to pinch these together. So we purled that first knit stitch, we leave it on the needle. Now we're going to rotate here to the back and we're going to insert our needle between the first and second stitch and we're not catching any loops there if you can see. We're only just passing through. Now we're going to rotate our needle and go in knit wise through the second stitch on the needle. So I'm only catching that front loop and then you're going to pass that through and then tighten up your work. So we've went in purl wise on the first stitch, brought our needle to the front and went in knit wise through the second stitch. So that is our set up. Now we're ready to bind off our stitches. So the first step we're going to do is we're going to go in knit wise in the first stitch, slip that off the needle and then we're going to go in purl wise through this now second stitch on our left hand needle and push that through. Okay, and now we're ready for the next step which is to go in purl wise on the first needle, slip that off and then just as we did before we're going to bring our needle between the two stitches on the left hand knitting needle and then we're going to go in knit wise through that second stitch and then pull tight and that is the end of our sequence. So again we go in knit wise through the first stitch, slip it, go in purl wise through now the second stitch on our left hand needle, leave that on because you kind of have to and then the next part is to go in purl wise through the first stitch, slip it, bring needle to the front here and if you want you may find it's easier to just pull it through before going through the second stitch knit wise like so and we're done with that sequence. So you can see here, twist my work, we're binding these stitches off by sewing them. So I'm going to show you a couple more times here and you will always start with a knit stitch as your first stitch, knit wise slip, purl the second stitch, leave it on, purl wise slip and then go between the stitches and go in knit wise through that second stitch and then we're done with that sequence. So knit slip purl, purl slip knit and then this is where it can get a little tricky if you're working magic loop. So I'll show you what we do here. I'm going to run out of stitches when I slip this first stitch off and go in purl wise to this one. So I'm just going to pull my needle through like so and then place all my stitches on this needle. And you're ready to continue with that sequence. Slip or knit wise slip purl, purl wise slip knit. So I'm going to do that across these stitches until I get to the very last couple stitches and then I'll show you what to do at that point. Okay, so I've reached the last four stitches so I'm going to do that sequence again. Knit, slip, purl, purl wise slip knit. Okay, so I have two stitches left on my needle and at this point I'm going to stretch my work so that I can see the very first stitch I went into, knit wise and slipped. I just want to show you how that looks. We're actually going to work into that last knit loop. I'll show you how we're going to do that with this last sequence. So we'll go into this second to last stitch, knit wise slip it and then we're going to go in purl wise through that final bind off loop and leave that on the needle. And then purl wise slip and if you remember we went in knit wise between the knit stitch and the purl stitch. So I'm just going to come back here into this little, into the inside of the purl stitch, that second stitch that we bound off of the round. And then get this where you can see it and then I'm just going to pass my needle through the top of that purl stitch just to secure it. And if you take a look here, we have bound off those stitches to mimic that tubular cast on. So our tubular bind off mirrors our tubular cast on. And if we work around our round you can barely see where the first stitch was bound off and the second or the first and last. You can even neat knees up a little bit with your needle. And of course once you block this will all kind of even itself out too. But then at this point you would just bring the needle to the wrong side of your work and just weave that into your work until the tail disappears. I'll just cut my yarn and show you that is how we do the sewn tubular bind off in the round. So I hope this video helps you guys out. Thanks so much for watching.