Cool Technique: Eyelet I-Cord Bind Off

There’s no end to the way that knitters can get stitches on and off the needles, and it’s a lot of fun to play with different cast ons and bind offs to see how they change the look of a garment or project.

I recently saw a video at New Stitch a Day all about the eyelet I-cord bind off, which is an attached I-cord bind off with a row of eyelets underneath that’s made at the same time as the bind off.

For a regular I-cord bind off you usually cast on several stitches before you start the bind off, then work the last of those stitches together with the first from your work, usually with a slip, slip, knit. In this technique, developed by the Sexy Knitter (aka Sarah Wilson), you do a knit 2 together instead, which makes a hole where the little gap is between the stitches you cast on and the old stitches.

This is a really cute look that I’m imagining at the bottom of a knit skirt, but I’m sure it could be used in all sorts of ways.

Have you tried a new-to-you cast on or bind off recently? I’d love to hear about it.

[Photo via New Stitch a Day.]

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From the front, the Simply Me Blouse from NORgardknitters looks like a plain, boxy, garter stitch sweater. The kind of thing you’d want to throw on every day, like the knit version of a sweatshirt.

But when you look at the back, you realize there’s more going on than meets the eye.

This sweater also has a giant pleat on the back, giving lots of volume and interest without making the knitting any harder.

Simply Me is worked from the top down, starting with the yoke being worked back and forth in rows. Extra stitches are cast on at the back to form the pleat (which is crocheted closed when the knitting is done) and the body is joined in the round under the underarms.

But if you know anything about knitting in the round, you know that to make garter stitch you have to knit and round and purl a round. To avoid that this pattern uses short rows so you can still knit every round and come out with garter stitch.

The sweater has a wide boatneck and a cropped, boxy shape with three-quarter sleeves. There’s no edging to interrupt the pretty waves of garter stitch.

The pattern comes in six sizes, to fit a bust from 31.5-33.5 inches, or 80-85 cm, up to 43 to 47 inches, or 110-120 cm. But there is a lot of positive ease worked into the pattern, so if you want less ease you can work it for a larger range of sizes. There are lots of projects on the project page on Ravelry, most of which show it in a solid color, but you can also see ideas for stripes or a fade. It calls for DK weight yarn.

You can find the Simply Me Blouse pattern on Ravelry, where it is available in English, Danish, French, German and Norwegian.

[Photo: NORgardknitters]

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