
Repeat from * all the way around until you are back to the two loops you started on, making sure that that very first Right Peg, becomes the Left Peg of your last set. Run your yarn around the back of Right peg, down the front side of the loop in Left Peg, and up the loop in Right Peg. *Now we move everything over by 1 peg, so the left peg becomes the right peg and a new peg becomes the left peg.

Bring your needle down through the loop on the Left Peg, and up through the loop on the Right Peg. We will be working on the two pegs to the right and left of your yarn, and this is how we will refer to them. Cut your yarn and thread it onto a yarn needle.īring your yarn forward to the left of the stitch you just finished. At the very bottom there is also a video so you can see this in action.īefore you begin, wrap your yarn around your loom three times and give yourself an extra 6” or so. So, hats, wrist warmers, socks, legwarmers, this is what you'll want to use, it's quite rhythmic once you get the hang of it, and I'll explain it in three different ways, but they are all the same action, so hopefully one of these explanations will click for you. This is a great bind off for anything that needs to be able to stretch the circumference of the loom.
Casting off knitting loom how to#
How to do a stretchy Bind off on a knitting loom Move your new loop back from Peg 2 to Peg 3.Ĭontinue in this way until you have bound off all the required stitches. Move your new loop back from Peg 1 to Peg 2. Pull the bottom loop over the top loop and the peg. The advantage to this is that you can adjust your tension as you go so you don't end up with a super tight or loose bind off. When you do your bind off you can either work your last row and then come back to do the bind off, or work your last row and bind off as you move across (which is what the diagrams show below). I'll walk you through how to do a basic bind off, and then I'll show you the steps for a stretchy bind off and explain it three different ways.


Today we're going to talk about how to bind off on your knitting loom.
