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For pieces knit on the diagonal. a facing is easier to work and also morę anractive if you crochet a slip stitch through every row along the edge.    _

Then work a stitch out of every slip stitch, catching both parts of the stitch. For this facing, the stitches were pickod up from the front,...

Knit-on Facings

...and for this facing, they were picked up from the back. Here the slip-stitch edge makes a nice transition.

For this garter-stitch facing, the stitches are bound off in a row on the wrong side of the work as knit stitches.

Binding off stitches that are too loose or irregular can he ąuickly and easily corrected (see page 451.

Worked around the corner: If

facings are supposed to be worked all around, stitches have to be in-creased at all the corners. These increases turn out best with yarn overs purled twisted. At every corner, knit an additional knit stitch out of the corner edge stitches. On both sides of this stitch, the increases are madę alternately with

a twisted knit stitch and a twisted purl stitch. In order to get a nice angle, 2 rows with increases and 1 row without increases have to be worked alternately. For knit increases, make surę that the ap-pearance is symmetrical (see sym-metrical increases with yarn over, page 401. Bind the stitches off after the desired length is reochod.

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