Binding Off Sweater Neck

Knitting a sweater. The neck is a K1P1. I'm binding off in pattern.
The neck fits, but the binding does not stretch to go over the head.

How do I make the binding stretch with the rest of teh neck?/

Any advice?

Hi the

Usually the patterns suggest to cast off in a larger needle. I always use
one size bigger but sometimes depending on how tight your knitting is you
may have to use larger.

HTH
Donna from Ontario, Canada





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Knitting a sweater. The neck is a K1P1. I'm binding off in pattern.
The neck fits, but the binding does not stretch to go over the head.

How do I make the binding stretch with the rest of teh neck?/

Any advice?

CreativeCouple wrote:
Knitting a sweater. The neck is a K1P1. I'm binding off in pattern.
The neck fits, but the binding does not stretch to go over the head.

How do I make the binding stretch with the rest of teh neck?/

Any advice?


You have to bind off very loosely; or use a much larger needle to do this.

Arlene

You can use an idiot cord bindoff which puts a nice edge on the
neckband and adds the stretch you need. Or do (k1, p1, m1) around and
then do the bindoff; problem with this is it gives the neck edge a
wavy appearance.

Or, use needles a few sizes bigger than the working needles, as has
been suggested by others already

On 20 Feb 2005 07:55:00 -0800, "CreativeCouple"
spewed forth :

Knitting a sweater. The neck is a K1P1. I'm binding off in pattern.
The neck fits, but the binding does not stretch to go over the head.

How do I make the binding stretch with the rest of teh neck?/

Any advice?

In article , Wooly
wrote:

You can use an idiot cord bindoff which puts a nice edge on the
neckband and adds the stretch you need. Or do (k1, p1, m1) around and
then do the bindoff; problem with this is it gives the neck edge a
wavy appearance.

Or, use needles a few sizes bigger than the working needles, as has
been suggested by others already


Wooly sorry, what is an idiot cord bindoff...??? I am in the middle of
finishing off Aysia"s dress. Indeed the neck line is the most difficult
to get right. You want it to lay flat, and fit neatly.

Els

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Knitting a sweater. The neck is a K1P1. I'm binding off in pattern.
The neck fits, but the binding does not stretch to go over the head.

How do I make the binding stretch with the rest of teh neck?/

Any advice?


Heh heh -- I'm smiling here because I'm recalling my very first knitted
garmet from a couple years ago where the bindoff at the neck was so tight,
it wouldn't go over my head -- and when I *insisted* it would, and kept
pulling, it got literally stuck on my face between the nose and forehead
bones, and I couldn't even cut it off because the bindoff ended up right
across my eyes, which felt like they were being pushed to the back of my
skull, so I couldn't see. And the question you are asking now was my first
question on RCTY.

So now I bind off with a needle two sizes larger -- and I have had no more
sweaters stuck on my face since doing that.

Karen in MN

How in the world did you finally get it off?
Donna in Montezuma
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Knitting a sweater. The neck is a K1P1. I'm binding off in pattern.
The neck fits, but the binding does not stretch to go over the head.

How do I make the binding stretch with the rest of teh neck?/

Any advice?


Heh heh -- I'm smiling here because I'm recalling my very first knitted
garmet from a couple years ago where the bindoff at the neck was so tight,
it wouldn't go over my head -- and when I *insisted* it would, and kept
pulling, it got literally stuck on my face between the nose and forehead
bones, and I couldn't even cut it off because the bindoff ended up right
across my eyes, which felt like they were being pushed to the back of my
skull, so I couldn't see. And the question you are asking now was my
first
question on RCTY.

So now I bind off with a needle two sizes larger -- and I have had no more
sweaters stuck on my face since doing that.

Karen in MN

Merely applied idiot cord on the last round of live stitches, instead
of a typical knit 2, pass one over, knit one, pass one over bind-off.
At the end of the last round, use a backward loop cast on to make 3
additional stitches, pass them back to the left-hand needle. Knit
two, k2tog, pass two back to the left, k2, k2tog, pass 2 back, ad naus
until you reach the end. If the beginning of the round happens to be
smack in front or on one side, move it to the back so that the join
might hide under hair or at least be somewhat less obvious for being
in the back.

This bindoff method has a propensity to curl outwards when done on
plain stockinette but should behave when done on ribbing.

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:29:14 -0800, (Els
van Dam) spewed forth :

In article , Wooly
wrote:

You can use an idiot cord bindoff which puts a nice edge on the
neckband and adds the stretch you need. Or do (k1, p1, m1) around and
then do the bindoff; problem with this is it gives the neck edge a
wavy appearance.

Or, use needles a few sizes bigger than the working needles, as has
been suggested by others already


Wooly sorry, what is an idiot cord bindoff...??? I am in the middle of
finishing off Aysia"s dress. Indeed the neck line is the most difficult
to get right. You want it to lay flat, and fit neatly.

Els

Sorry, pass THREE back to the left wherever it says to pass two back.

Thanks for the wonderful chuckle, Karen.

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Knitting a sweater. The neck is a K1P1. I'm binding off in pattern.
The neck fits, but the binding does not stretch to go over the head.

How do I make the binding stretch with the rest of teh neck?/

Any advice?


Heh heh -- I'm smiling here because I'm recalling my very first knitted
garmet from a couple years ago where the bindoff at the neck was so tight,
it wouldn't go over my head -- and when I *insisted* it would, and kept
pulling, it got literally stuck on my face between the nose and forehead
bones, and I couldn't even cut it off because the bindoff ended up right
across my eyes, which felt like they were being pushed to the back of my
skull, so I couldn't see. And the question you are asking now was my
first
question on RCTY.

So now I bind off with a needle two sizes larger -- and I have had no more
sweaters stuck on my face since doing that.

Karen in MN