The Knitting Fiend/ Diet Diary

I tend to knit in binges, and I’m afraid Barbara launched me into a shawl binge. Since I compulsively create all my own patterns, this means I need to begin exploring nifty shawl techniques. Today, I experimented with a a “picot edge bind off”.

I read some instructions for this bind off and interpreted them a few ways. I could explain why I thought the directions I found ambiguous, but I’ll just explain the organization I found prettiest. If you know a different way to do this, let me know!

Anyway, here’s what I did:

Now, we’ll start the “repeating” part:

1. P2 tog. You now have a stitch on the right needle tip.
2. Insert right needle tip between the first two stitches on the left needle tip as if to purl (See below left.) Yarn over purl — stitch created. Put this stitch back on the left tip.
3. Repeat. You will be inserting the right tip to the left of the stitch you just created. Put the stitch you just created on the left tip. Below right, stitch 1 is the stitch that was on the left tip originally. Stitches 2 & 3 are the ones you just created.
4. Place stitch 4 on the left tip.
5. Now, p2 tog. Repeat 4 times (You’ll do this a total of 5 times.)
6. Repeat from step 1.

I think this is much prettier than the plain old bind off I did on Colocha’s version of Barbara. I’ll be working this for future incarnations of Barbara (and pretty much all future pie wedge shawls.)

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