How Do You Bind Off & Cast Off?
“Hi, I’m Kelsey. I’ve been knitting for 10 years, and am a member of several knitting organizations. Once you’ve learned how to cast on and knit, at some point you’re going to have to stop. You can’t just take it off the needle or it’s going to unravel. What you have to do is the opposite of casting on, you cast off. This is also known as binding off. Just like casting on, there are a million different ways to cast off. By far the most common is the technique I’m going to show you here. When you’re casting off, It’s very similar to knitting, you go ahead and start by knitting two stitches on your right hand needle. You knit one and then knit two. Now what you’re going to do is use your left hand needle to pull this first stitch over the second. So you pull that stitch over and as you see you then get an edge that’s not going to unravel. Then you’re going to knit another stitch so you know have two on the right hand needle, and you’re going to repeat. Put the left hand needle into the f
