1 00:00:00,545 --> 00:00:04,551 - You've knit 58 inches of gorgeous arm-knit stitches 2 00:00:04,551 --> 00:00:06,791 and now we're gonna bind off. 3 00:00:06,791 --> 00:00:09,304 You're gonna need a little bit of yarn 4 00:00:09,304 --> 00:00:11,405 to actually bind off the stitches 5 00:00:11,405 --> 00:00:13,925 and then you need a little bit of yarn to 6 00:00:13,925 --> 00:00:15,842 seam the ends together. 7 00:00:15,952 --> 00:00:18,701 You wanna leave about three yards to finish, 8 00:00:18,701 --> 00:00:22,338 both to bind off and then to seam the rest of the cowl. 9 00:00:22,338 --> 00:00:24,599 So when you bind off, you start knitting 10 00:00:24,599 --> 00:00:26,288 just like you would a regular row. 11 00:00:26,288 --> 00:00:30,115 So you take the working yarn and you put it in your hand 12 00:00:30,115 --> 00:00:32,830 and we're gonna start doing those stitches. 13 00:00:32,830 --> 00:00:35,997 But you wanna stop after two stitches. 14 00:00:36,423 --> 00:00:39,923 So now I have two stitches on my left hand 15 00:00:40,215 --> 00:00:42,247 and what you're gonna do is you're gonna pull 16 00:00:42,247 --> 00:00:44,903 that first stitch here on your hand 17 00:00:44,903 --> 00:00:46,228 and you're gonna bring it over 18 00:00:46,228 --> 00:00:48,330 the last stitch you just put on. 19 00:00:48,330 --> 00:00:50,376 So when you're done with that, you should just have 20 00:00:50,376 --> 00:00:52,793 one stitch on your left hand. 21 00:00:54,699 --> 00:00:57,726 After you do that, you're gonna pull the next stitch 22 00:00:57,726 --> 00:01:00,817 from where all the old stitches are off, 23 00:01:00,817 --> 00:01:02,736 you're gonna make one new stitch 24 00:01:02,736 --> 00:01:05,183 and that's gonna go on your left hand. 25 00:01:05,183 --> 00:01:08,305 And again, now you have two stitches on this hand 26 00:01:08,305 --> 00:01:10,293 and so you're gonna take the first stitch 27 00:01:10,293 --> 00:01:13,543 and you're gonna pull it off your hand. 28 00:01:13,967 --> 00:01:15,449 Basically what you're doing here 29 00:01:15,449 --> 00:01:18,282 is you're locking down those loops 30 00:01:18,770 --> 00:01:22,020 so that the stitches won't come undone. 31 00:01:22,110 --> 00:01:25,527 It's important not to bind off too tight. 32 00:01:26,509 --> 00:01:30,009 So it's very easy to take this next stitch 33 00:01:31,096 --> 00:01:33,202 and when you pull this over, 34 00:01:33,202 --> 00:01:35,785 pull this really, really tight. 35 00:01:35,897 --> 00:01:37,868 And you don't wanna do that because that's gonna make 36 00:01:37,868 --> 00:01:40,451 the edge of your cowl too tight 37 00:01:40,804 --> 00:01:42,741 compared to the rest of the fabric. 38 00:01:42,741 --> 00:01:46,531 You want the stitches in your bind off to match, 39 00:01:46,531 --> 00:01:48,423 you don't need to take it off your wrist like I just did, 40 00:01:48,423 --> 00:01:51,127 but you want the stitches in your bind off 41 00:01:51,127 --> 00:01:54,627 to match the stitches underneath in width. 42 00:01:55,794 --> 00:01:56,961 Overall width. 43 00:01:57,474 --> 00:02:00,319 So we're gonna keep on going, you knit a stitch 44 00:02:00,319 --> 00:02:02,463 from your right hand and put it on your left. 45 00:02:02,463 --> 00:02:03,723 Now you've got two over here, 46 00:02:03,723 --> 00:02:07,728 so you pull the first one over the one you just put on 47 00:02:07,728 --> 00:02:11,311 and you don't wanna tighten it up too much. 48 00:02:11,567 --> 00:02:12,866 You do it again. 49 00:02:12,866 --> 00:02:15,560 In this case I'm binding off the stitches 50 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:17,452 that were all on my right arm, 51 00:02:17,452 --> 00:02:19,143 but you can do it the other way too, 52 00:02:19,143 --> 00:02:20,729 it's the same technique. 53 00:02:20,729 --> 00:02:23,254 If you started with them all on your left arm, 54 00:02:23,254 --> 00:02:25,350 you would just knit two stitches 55 00:02:25,350 --> 00:02:27,132 and again do the same bind off action, 56 00:02:27,132 --> 00:02:30,171 taking that first stitch and pulling it over 57 00:02:30,171 --> 00:02:32,421 the stitch you just put on. 58 00:02:34,542 --> 00:02:36,923 And again, you wanna tighten it a little bit 59 00:02:36,923 --> 00:02:41,090 but not too much so that it's pulling the stitches together. 60 00:02:43,165 --> 00:02:45,554 When you get to the last loop on your arm, 61 00:02:45,554 --> 00:02:48,479 what you wanna do is you wanna find the end of your yarn. 62 00:02:48,479 --> 00:02:51,412 And if, say, your skeins were much more yardage 63 00:02:51,412 --> 00:02:53,452 than what I had, you just wanna trim it 64 00:02:53,452 --> 00:02:55,425 with at least two yards to go, 65 00:02:55,425 --> 00:02:57,408 or even a yard is fine at this point. 66 00:02:57,408 --> 00:03:00,656 But you want to then take the ends of that yarn 67 00:03:00,656 --> 00:03:03,787 and pull it through the last loop on your hand. 68 00:03:03,787 --> 00:03:07,870 So you're basically locking down the last stitch. 69 00:03:08,514 --> 00:03:10,770 So you pull that working yarn 70 00:03:10,770 --> 00:03:13,770 through that last stitch, like that. 71 00:03:14,450 --> 00:03:16,717 So now here's your cast-on edge 72 00:03:16,717 --> 00:03:19,538 and you can see that the width of the bind off 73 00:03:19,538 --> 00:03:22,657 is very similar to the width of the stitches below. 74 00:03:22,657 --> 00:03:24,731 You don't have it gathering in really tight, 75 00:03:24,731 --> 00:03:26,570 you don't have it way loose. 76 00:03:26,570 --> 00:03:29,283 If you're gonna make the scarf you would stop here 77 00:03:29,283 --> 00:03:30,538 and I'm gonna show you in a little bit 78 00:03:30,538 --> 00:03:33,280 how to make the pom poms and weave in the ends. 79 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:34,896 If you're gonna make the cowl, 80 00:03:34,896 --> 00:03:37,128 we're gonna go ahead and seam that up right now. 81 00:03:37,128 --> 00:03:39,137 You wanna take the bound-off edge 82 00:03:39,137 --> 00:03:41,604 and you wanna bring it over to the left 83 00:03:41,604 --> 00:03:45,771 and you're gonna turn it so that it's purl side up. 84 00:03:46,484 --> 00:03:48,282 And you're gonna stretch it out here. 85 00:03:48,282 --> 00:03:49,865 It looks so pretty. 86 00:03:50,309 --> 00:03:53,501 Then what you wanna do is you wanna bring the ends 87 00:03:53,501 --> 00:03:55,084 to the middle here. 88 00:03:57,931 --> 00:04:00,301 Now you match them up, and this is how 89 00:04:00,301 --> 00:04:03,801 you're gonna make that infinity cowl loop. 90 00:04:04,592 --> 00:04:08,520 But what you can see here is the difference between, 91 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:10,958 though you've matched your bound off 92 00:04:10,958 --> 00:04:13,186 to the width of your stitches, 93 00:04:13,186 --> 00:04:14,581 naturally when you do this, 94 00:04:14,581 --> 00:04:17,415 your cast-on edge tends to be tighter. 95 00:04:17,415 --> 00:04:20,915 And what you're gonna want to do is loosen 96 00:04:21,235 --> 00:04:22,652 this cast-on edge 97 00:04:23,554 --> 00:04:26,210 so that it matches your bound-off edge. 98 00:04:26,210 --> 00:04:28,263 And the way you do that is you start 99 00:04:28,263 --> 00:04:30,763 at the end away from the tail. 100 00:04:31,673 --> 00:04:33,756 This is your cast-on edge 101 00:04:34,095 --> 00:04:37,816 and this is the tail that we originally started with. 102 00:04:37,816 --> 00:04:39,698 And what you're gonna do is you wanna 103 00:04:39,698 --> 00:04:43,865 spread these stitches out a little bit so that it matches 104 00:04:45,247 --> 00:04:47,914 the bound-off edge you just did. 105 00:04:49,078 --> 00:04:51,245 Pull it just a little bit. 106 00:04:51,820 --> 00:04:53,629 You don't wanna pull it too wide 107 00:04:53,629 --> 00:04:55,832 because you don't want it wider than the edge, 108 00:04:55,832 --> 00:04:58,588 but you see how this matches up really nicely, 109 00:04:58,588 --> 00:05:01,671 stitch for stitch all along the edge? 110 00:05:02,705 --> 00:05:06,038 To mattress stitch these edges together, 111 00:05:06,420 --> 00:05:08,463 what you're gonna do is you're basically gonna take 112 00:05:08,463 --> 00:05:11,912 this left over yarn from your bound-off edge 113 00:05:11,912 --> 00:05:14,774 and you're gonna feed it back and forth, 114 00:05:14,774 --> 00:05:17,691 stitch for stitch across both ends. 115 00:05:18,030 --> 00:05:20,723 Even though you're stitching from the right side, 116 00:05:20,723 --> 00:05:23,763 it's absolutely like magic, it just comes together 117 00:05:23,763 --> 00:05:27,229 and the seam is totally hidden, you can't even see it. 118 00:05:27,229 --> 00:05:29,903 So you're gonna take the yarn that's left over 119 00:05:29,903 --> 00:05:32,027 from the bound-off edge and we're gonna start 120 00:05:32,027 --> 00:05:36,194 by coming over here through the edge of your cast-on side. 121 00:05:37,496 --> 00:05:41,079 And you're gonna go under this first stitch 122 00:05:41,344 --> 00:05:45,066 and you're gonna feed the yarn through that hole. 123 00:05:45,066 --> 00:05:48,733 And you're just gonna pull it through there. 124 00:05:51,335 --> 00:05:52,499 Just like that. 125 00:05:52,499 --> 00:05:55,082 Now we're gonna bring that end, 126 00:05:55,789 --> 00:05:57,956 and you can see over here, 127 00:05:58,236 --> 00:06:00,986 this is one row of stitches here. 128 00:06:03,518 --> 00:06:05,515 And you see this V here? 129 00:06:05,515 --> 00:06:07,098 This is one stitch. 130 00:06:07,563 --> 00:06:09,696 We're gonna bring that yarn 131 00:06:09,696 --> 00:06:13,863 underneath that stitch and through, just like that. 132 00:06:16,170 --> 00:06:18,587 Right underneath that stitch. 133 00:06:20,978 --> 00:06:24,035 There you go, now we've brought it over to this side. 134 00:06:24,035 --> 00:06:26,915 Now we're gonna come back over to this side 135 00:06:26,915 --> 00:06:28,401 and you can see here also, 136 00:06:28,401 --> 00:06:31,651 there's this line of stitches, V, V, V, 137 00:06:32,496 --> 00:06:35,591 and here's the V coming into the cast-on edge right there. 138 00:06:35,591 --> 00:06:38,674 And we're gonna go under that stitch. 139 00:06:41,038 --> 00:06:42,288 Just like that. 140 00:06:42,364 --> 00:06:45,197 And we're gonna pull that through. 141 00:06:49,892 --> 00:06:50,811 There you go. 142 00:06:50,811 --> 00:06:53,702 Now we're gonna go back over to the other side. 143 00:06:53,702 --> 00:06:55,030 Some people get worried about 144 00:06:55,030 --> 00:06:57,287 exactly where the yarn is going 145 00:06:57,287 --> 00:07:00,395 and you don't need to worry so much about 146 00:07:00,395 --> 00:07:02,286 which stitch you're picking up where, 147 00:07:02,286 --> 00:07:03,657 this is one way to do it. 148 00:07:03,657 --> 00:07:06,387 The most important part is to just be consistent 149 00:07:06,387 --> 00:07:07,667 in how you do it. 150 00:07:07,667 --> 00:07:08,750 So if you are 151 00:07:09,657 --> 00:07:10,490 picking up 152 00:07:10,964 --> 00:07:12,297 a V on one side, 153 00:07:12,917 --> 00:07:15,216 just make sure when you come back to that same side, 154 00:07:15,216 --> 00:07:18,836 you pick up the similar strands on the other side. 155 00:07:18,836 --> 00:07:22,836 I've done this V here, so now I wanna do this V, 156 00:07:23,097 --> 00:07:24,484 you can see the line of stitches here, 157 00:07:24,484 --> 00:07:25,984 this V right here. 158 00:07:26,836 --> 00:07:29,240 The bound-off edge is right here. 159 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,180 You wanna feed the yarn through there. 160 00:07:32,180 --> 00:07:34,013 You pull that through. 161 00:07:35,097 --> 00:07:36,633 And now, guess what? 162 00:07:36,633 --> 00:07:38,503 You go back to the other side 163 00:07:38,503 --> 00:07:40,211 and we're gonna go underneath the next stitch. 164 00:07:40,211 --> 00:07:42,841 Again, here's the line of stitches, right here. 165 00:07:42,841 --> 00:07:45,091 V, V, V. 166 00:07:45,656 --> 00:07:48,073 We're gonna go under this one 167 00:07:48,707 --> 00:07:50,374 and pull it through. 168 00:07:54,992 --> 00:07:56,060 Just like that. 169 00:07:56,060 --> 00:07:58,971 We're gonna go back to the other side. 170 00:07:58,971 --> 00:08:01,157 And you're just gonna keep doing this, 171 00:08:01,157 --> 00:08:03,235 stitch from one side to the other. 172 00:08:03,235 --> 00:08:04,702 One side to the other. 173 00:08:04,702 --> 00:08:08,109 Picking up the stitch, one on each side as you go. 174 00:08:08,109 --> 00:08:09,857 So you're matching stitches along that 175 00:08:09,857 --> 00:08:12,524 bound-off edge and cast-on edge. 176 00:08:14,167 --> 00:08:17,042 You can see here that it's starting to pull together clean 177 00:08:17,042 --> 00:08:19,488 so you can't even see that seam. 178 00:08:19,488 --> 00:08:21,454 Now that I've shown you the first few, 179 00:08:21,454 --> 00:08:24,344 I'm gonna actually show you a faster way to do it 180 00:08:24,344 --> 00:08:27,024 now that you know exactly what's happening. 181 00:08:27,024 --> 00:08:30,236 And the way to do that is, instead of pulling it through 182 00:08:30,236 --> 00:08:32,995 on every single stitch, you're still gonna go under 183 00:08:32,995 --> 00:08:35,779 the same stitches, but you're just gonna take this thread 184 00:08:35,779 --> 00:08:38,362 and weave it from side to side. 185 00:08:40,218 --> 00:08:42,662 Going underneath the same stitches 186 00:08:42,662 --> 00:08:44,329 that we were before, 187 00:08:44,442 --> 00:08:46,218 only you're not pulling it through 188 00:08:46,218 --> 00:08:48,635 the stitch every single time. 189 00:08:48,736 --> 00:08:51,376 So you can see how this becomes faster, 190 00:08:51,376 --> 00:08:53,448 you can just pull it as you go. 191 00:08:53,448 --> 00:08:56,713 And you're going underneath those same Vs 192 00:08:56,713 --> 00:09:00,880 as you go, make sure you don't lose one of your strands. 193 00:09:07,791 --> 00:09:10,124 And remember, there's the V. 194 00:09:18,571 --> 00:09:21,717 You can pull out a little bit of slack here. 195 00:09:21,717 --> 00:09:24,550 We're gonna keep going to the end. 196 00:09:25,641 --> 00:09:27,891 Keep going to the very end. 197 00:09:28,681 --> 00:09:30,525 And then you just bring it through this last stitch 198 00:09:30,525 --> 00:09:32,763 on this side and then you just pull, 199 00:09:32,763 --> 00:09:36,930 and this is the magic part, it all comes together. 200 00:09:36,985 --> 00:09:39,300 Now what you wanna make sure you don't do 201 00:09:39,300 --> 00:09:42,407 is pull it so tight that it's all bunched up like that. 202 00:09:42,407 --> 00:09:45,990 You wanna keep it loose enough through here 203 00:09:46,691 --> 00:09:49,941 that the stitches look 204 00:09:50,901 --> 00:09:54,234 even and nice and the width of your seam 205 00:09:54,648 --> 00:09:57,881 is the same as the width of rest of the fabric. 206 00:09:57,881 --> 00:10:00,223 So you can play with this a little bit 207 00:10:00,223 --> 00:10:02,890 and get it just how you like it. 208 00:10:03,820 --> 00:10:06,044 Now you do end up with a seam under here, 209 00:10:06,044 --> 00:10:09,363 but that will be against your neck and nobody will see that. 210 00:10:09,363 --> 00:10:10,768 Or you can keep it to the side 211 00:10:10,768 --> 00:10:13,629 if you don't want that chunk right next to your neck. 212 00:10:13,629 --> 00:10:15,664 Now we're gonna weave in the ends. 213 00:10:15,664 --> 00:10:18,033 So you've got both your tail from the cast on 214 00:10:18,033 --> 00:10:21,295 and that working end from the bound-off edge 215 00:10:21,295 --> 00:10:23,484 and we're gonna weave those in. 216 00:10:23,484 --> 00:10:25,270 This is where people get worried. 217 00:10:25,270 --> 00:10:27,821 They think, "Oh my gosh, I don't want it to unravel! 218 00:10:27,821 --> 00:10:30,327 "I don't wanna lose all the work I did!" 219 00:10:30,327 --> 00:10:33,678 A lot of people feel more comfortable knotting it here. 220 00:10:33,678 --> 00:10:36,569 I don't always do that, but if it makes you feel 221 00:10:36,569 --> 00:10:38,720 more comfortable, we're gonna knot it. 222 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:40,917 First you wanna take your scissors 223 00:10:40,917 --> 00:10:42,334 and cut the ends. 224 00:10:43,148 --> 00:10:46,928 You wanna leave about eight inches on either side. 225 00:10:46,928 --> 00:10:49,022 Gonna do a simple square knot. 226 00:10:49,022 --> 00:10:53,189 And maybe do it again keeping those three strands together. 227 00:10:53,508 --> 00:10:55,904 That knot will blend right into the edge. 228 00:10:55,904 --> 00:10:59,452 And then the next part is just to weave these ends in 229 00:10:59,452 --> 00:11:01,951 and I like to weave them into the seam. 230 00:11:01,951 --> 00:11:04,740 You can see here that this was your cast-on edge 231 00:11:04,740 --> 00:11:06,353 and that's a little bit tighter. 232 00:11:06,353 --> 00:11:08,783 And this is your bound-off edge here. 233 00:11:08,783 --> 00:11:11,581 Well with these ends, because you're wearing it a lot 234 00:11:11,581 --> 00:11:14,232 and moving it a lot, I like to bring the ends 235 00:11:14,232 --> 00:11:17,346 through these really tight cast-on edges right here. 236 00:11:17,346 --> 00:11:20,610 See how tight that is compared to this loosey goosey part? 237 00:11:20,610 --> 00:11:23,685 So we're gonna bring this under here. 238 00:11:23,685 --> 00:11:26,721 And when you weave in edges, it doesn't really matter, 239 00:11:26,721 --> 00:11:28,458 especially when it's in a seam like this, 240 00:11:28,458 --> 00:11:30,202 it doesn't really matter. 241 00:11:30,202 --> 00:11:32,300 You wanna keep all the strands together, 242 00:11:32,300 --> 00:11:33,586 I only pulled two through there 243 00:11:33,586 --> 00:11:35,409 but we're gonna pull all three. 244 00:11:35,409 --> 00:11:37,911 There's no rhyme or reason as much as you just 245 00:11:37,911 --> 00:11:41,953 wanna get those ends tucked in a tight stitch or two 246 00:11:41,953 --> 00:11:46,120 so that they don't come out as you're moving around. 247 00:11:47,336 --> 00:11:49,996 See, you can even come in down here, 248 00:11:49,996 --> 00:11:51,522 go through some of these stitches. 249 00:11:51,522 --> 00:11:54,964 Again, it doesn't really matter which ones specifically. 250 00:11:54,964 --> 00:11:57,726 Now we're gonna take the other end, 251 00:11:57,726 --> 00:12:00,059 we're gonna go through here. 252 00:12:00,915 --> 00:12:02,582 And go through here. 253 00:12:08,134 --> 00:12:11,120 And here too, you don't wanna pull your ends 254 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,037 so tight that they bunch up 255 00:12:14,050 --> 00:12:16,883 the side of your cowl. 256 00:12:17,097 --> 00:12:19,470 Always keep this width the same width 257 00:12:19,470 --> 00:12:21,553 as the fabric underneath. 258 00:12:23,159 --> 00:12:25,492 Let's just do one more here. 259 00:12:27,769 --> 00:12:28,852 There you go. 260 00:12:29,953 --> 00:12:32,801 And then that's it, those are your woven-in ends. 261 00:12:32,801 --> 00:12:35,311 And you're just gonna come back in with the scissors 262 00:12:35,311 --> 00:12:36,644 and clip it off. 263 00:12:39,292 --> 00:12:40,542 Just like that. 264 00:12:41,786 --> 00:12:42,786 There ya go. 265 00:12:42,866 --> 00:12:44,856 And they're in those nice, tight stitches so they won't 266 00:12:44,856 --> 00:12:47,064 come out, or they'll be less likely to come out. 267 00:12:47,064 --> 00:12:49,035 But if they do come out, you can just weave them 268 00:12:49,035 --> 00:12:51,919 right back in again and stick to those tight stitches. 269 00:12:51,919 --> 00:12:54,727 Now your cowl is done and we need to put it on. 270 00:12:54,727 --> 00:12:57,090 Put it on with the seam near the back. 271 00:12:57,090 --> 00:12:58,840 Then you do one twist 272 00:12:59,009 --> 00:13:01,428 and put the rest of it over your head 273 00:13:01,428 --> 00:13:05,595 and now you're ready for your next adventure, let's go.