You don’t need to switch yarn or needles when you start to cast off. You’re essentially working new stitches and slipping them over each other.
If your pattern directed you to slip the first stitch of each row, don’t slip it for your cast off row. Just make 2 knit stitches.
Don’t worry about the other stitch on your right needle. This is the stitch you’ll be slipping over.
At this point, you’ve cast off 1 stitch and you have just 1 stitch remaining on the right needle. As you continue doing this, you’re reducing the number of stitches that you have, all the way to the end. [4] X Expert Source Jen WebberKnitting Specialist Expert Interview. 4 August 2020.
If your stitches are tight, you’ll have a hard time lifting the first stitch over the second stitch. A tightly cast-off edge also makes your project pucker up at the bottom. [6] X Expert Source Jen WebberKnitting Specialist Expert Interview. 4 August 2020.
At this point, your project is off of the needles! You’ll see a yarn tail at the end that you just cast off and a tail at the opposite end of your project where you cast on.
Tapestry needles have slightly curved tips. Play around with straight darning needles or these curved tapestry needles to find which style you prefer.
Garter stitches are made by knitting every stitch for all the rounds. Stockinette stitches are made by alternating knit and purl rows.
It’s easier to hide the tail if you begin weaving close to the base of the yarn tail.
If it helps you to remember, you’re going down through a smile or U-shaped bump and diagonally under a rainbow bump.
In addition to helping the piece hold its shape, blocking your project will help even out the tension in the stitches. [16] X Expert Source Jen WebberKnitting Specialist Expert Interview. 4 August 2020. If you’re worried that the fabric will curl in as it dries, stick a few sewing pins through the fabric near the edges and corners so the material holds its shape.
