Your question: How do you bind off garter stitch?

How do I stop my garter stitch from curling?

Add a garter stitch or seed stitch border

  1. Row 1: knit all stitches.
  2. Row 2: knit two or three stitches (depending upon the width you want for your border), purl until you have the same number of stitches left that you knit for your border at the beginning of the row, knit remaining stitches.


Can you bind off on a purl row?

To make the Purl Bind Off:

Lift up the st, bring it over the top of the other stitch, and slip it off over the tip of the working needle. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for the rest of the row. To finish: When one st remains, pull a loop through the last stitch.

Is bind off the same as cast off?


How do you knit the last stitch in a row?

You slip the stitch by inserting the right needle tip into the stitch on the left needle as if to knit, and then you slip that stitch from the left to the right needle without involving the working yarn. Then you knit the next stitch as normal.

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Why does my garter stitch curl?


Should I slip the first stitch in knitting?


How do I stop my stockings from curling at the side edges?

Prevention. If you haven’t yet knit a project that you want to be stockinette stitch but you don’t want it to curl, the most common option to minimize or eliminate curl is the use of border stitches knit in a different stitch pattern as you knit the rest of the project.

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