This video knitting tutorial will help you learn how to knit the picot bind off. This bind off is a method of ending your work with a frilly finish. Its great for socks, scarfs, and baby blankets.
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Skill: Easy
Instructions:
Step 1: Cast on 2 stitches
Step 2: Knit 2
Step 3: Pass first stitch over second stitch
Step 4: Knit, pass first stitch over second stitch
Step 5: Knit, pass first stitch over second stitch
Step 6: Knit, pass first stitch over second stitch
Step 7: Slip stitch back to main needle
Example of the Picot Bind Off (click for larger)
jfay1995
very cool. I’ve done something kind of similar with a skirt i made. I bound it off doing a bobble stitch on every third stitch or something like that. It came out cool too.
Johnny Vasquez
Sounds pretty cool! There are a lot of ways to bind off, especially when you are doing decorative edges.
Carol hogendyk
I’m confused. Do you cast on 2 stitches before every group where you want to make your picot stitches? Or just at the very beginning? I’m thinking so, but needed to clarify it.
Thanks
Johnny Vasquez
Yes cast on 2 stitches each time. That’s what creates the picot.
jowisim@live.co.uk
I just watched the video tutorial to learn the Facine braid stitch,my daughter loves snoods so now I can make one for her thank you very much the videos are so helpful.