Fixing Messy Edge Stitches (Rowing Out) and Enlarged Last BO Stitch

this is a video about messy edge stitches fading large last bind off stitches a lot of people have messy edge stitches but don't recognize them on their work so first I'll point out what they look like on this swatch we've got twelve stitches across and the first column of stitches and the last call on what stitches are considered the selvage stitches selvage stitches aren't very pretty because they're only connected to the Knitting on one side the other side is just loose it doesn't have anything connecting to it so they collapse in on themselves and they're not particularly attractive those are not the stitches we want to talk about what we're talking about is the second column in below the second stitch on the needle you can see that column those are the edge stitches and those are what are going to be seen most prominently for example if you were going to seam this area or if you were going to pick up stitches along here like the front of a cardigan and add a button band or a buttonhole band or if you are going to pick up stitches along here for a neckline or armhole these are the stitches that are going to stand out the ones not the ones that the last column put the next-to-last column these look nice see they're the same size as the rest of the stitches on this swatch but let's look over here on the right this column is not so nice they're they're what we would call messy or untidy every other stitch is enlarged can you see that and this is the selvage edge so this part would be hidden behind the pickup or the seam but this is what you would see on the very edge and it's really not very attractive unless you're looking for this you won't notice it in your work until later on and it'll stand out like a on light so let's see what causes us to begin with it is caused by the action of creating the stitches as you make a new stitch you insert your right needle into the stitch on the Left needle and you insert the needle through this wait for Pearl or this way for a knit but at the time that you're creating the new stitch you actually have two needles going through that one stitch and it pulls up extra yarn into the stitch then you create the new stitch drop this one off let's do this is an example so you create a new stitch this one on the Left needle is now dropped off then when you put your needle right needle into this stitch any excess yarn that was pulled up into that first stitch is now transferred to this stitch and so it becomes enlarged and then it's transferred to this stitch and so on across the row each stitch absorbs that extra yarn and when you get to the end of the row which will be out in a second there's nowhere for that extra yarn to go because these stitches are not connected to the ones that you're creating on the needle they're actually connected to the row below so if there's excess yarn it will get stuck right here and it will create enlarged stitches same applies if you did having large stitches on this side it would be you would be creating them when you worked the other way so we're gonna purl back my problem is the stitches on the right and when I just began that previous row they were fine but now I'm working these stitches across and again with the right needle when I pull up on that left needle and make that purl stitch I'm moving yarn over from right to left all along and then when we get over to here again there's nowhere for that extra yarn to go and I do have that problem it happens to me on my purl rows it can happen on knit rows too and it can and on both sides for some people some people don't have this problem at all so here we have those enlarged stitches every other row how can you fix them the first method for fixing it is to when you're working from if we want to fix the stitches in on the right side when we're working on the right side of the work we have to tighten the first two or three stitches so that when we come back and we're moving that excess yarn over there somewhere for it to go to and the stitches will be normal-sized there's several ways to do this one is to just work these stitches really tight you have to be careful not to work that first stitch too tight because watch what happens if you work this is the small stitch here here's the big stitch here it's a small stitch if you work this stitch really tight the first one and you pull so tight on it that it actually tightens up the yarn from the row below it will make this next stitch appear even smaller on your needle and it makes the problem worse so what you've got to do is when you work that first stitch work it with your normal tension then the next stitch really work it tightly and I really pull the yarn around tight and the next stitch really tight then continue working back across the row we'll go across real quickly come back again and I'll show you the next fix there's three basic fixes and you you may have to try all three of them before you find the one that works for you you can try these fixes on a right side row or a wrong side row they'll work equally well do depending on where your problem is so the next fix here's a little bit different okay now this time that helped a little bit this stitch isn't quite as big as this one see how big this one is and get this focus better okay can you see how big those stitches and how big this stitch is this one's not quite as big so that helped quite a bit doing that the next method is to work the first stitch normally then when you put your needle into the next stitch to work it before you wrap the yarn pull the yarn tight then wrap the yarn around the needle and carry on across the row that will tighten it up - and I'm not going to work all the way crossing back it's too time-consuming the next technique is to work the first stitch normal put your needle in the next stitch as if to make the stitch wrap the yarn in the opposite direction so instead you normally would go this way you're gonna go this way what that does is it creates a very short distance from here to this darn it makes a very very short stitch and it will absorb a lot of yarn when you come back on the next row but you can see the stitch mounts reversed so when you come back on the next row you're going to need to work it through the back loop for people who have really messy edges they might have to do this trick twice and that would be work the first stitch normal wrap the second one in the opposite direction the third one normal the fourth one in the opposite direction just like that then when you come back on the next row you'd have to work this stitch through the back loop and this stitch through the back loop now at the beginning I said this had to do with enlarge bind off stitches - the same thing applies what happens is when you're working across the row and you carry that excess yarn over and then you go to bind off there's nowhere for the yarn to go and you'll have that big bind off stitch all you have to do is employ one of these techniques in the row before and you won't have that big bind off

Channel: Knitting with Suzanne Bryan

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Length: 7min 59sec (479 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 18 2014