Rolled slip stitch edge

[celticdragonfly]

I want to keep these two techniqe quotes from a knitting book, Domiknitrix, here so I can find it in the future.

Rolled slip stitch edge:
Slipping a stitch at the beginning and/or end of each right side row creates a beautiful chained edge. Slipping two stitches on each right side row creastes the look of a sewed-on I-cord, but with much less effort. This edge can tighten up the edge of the piece, so it’s important to try it first on a gauge swatch before starting the piece. On a garter piece, it’s just fine. Since the gauge of this texture is already tighter, it matches well.

Slip the first one or two stitches as if to purl. (Always slip stitches only on right side rows.) Slip the last one or two stitches as if to purl. … Notice how the edges seems to roll without the entire piece curling.

Elastic Bind Off: This method of binding off produces and edge that looks just like a garter row and is more elastic than the traditional bind off.
1) Knit one stitch and pass it back to the left needle
2) Knit two stitches together and pass the resulting stitch back to the left needle
3) Continue binding off stitches until they’ve all been bound off. Pull yarn tail through last stitch. Notice how nice and stretchy the edge is.

Comments

[cynthia1960.livejournal.com]

That elastic bind-off may come in handy for me when I finish the neck of my current sweater.

[hopeevey.livejournal.com]

For lack of anything else to knit at a friend's house, I started a hat the way I usually do, from the top down, on 4 dpns, increasing at the beginning of each needle until it's the right circumference then knitting down to the right length. Be the time I left, I had about a 6" square on my needles, but wasn't much moved to finish the hat right now - I've got other more pressing projects here at home.

Anyway, point being, I had a perfect opportunity to try some elastic bind offs to compare them :) So I tried this one with the same needles, this one with a 2-sized larger needle, and the stretchy bind off I usually do, once with the same size and once with a larger needle.

This bind off was okay, but the other one was much stretchier, especially with the larger needle. Here's how it works:

~Knit 2
~use the left hand needle to lift the first stitch over the second, and leave it on the left needle. You haven't yet reduced the number of stitches
~knit into the next stitch (not the one you just lifted) and pull that stitch and the lifted stitch off the left needle - one stitch bound off
~repeat across

I don't at all remember where I learned that, probably out of some library book 15 years ago.