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Twisted Cord

Three-Needle Bind-Off

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Place stitches to be joined onto two separate needles. Hołd them with right sides of knit-ting focing together. Insert a third needle into first stitch on each of the other two needles and knit them together as one stitch. *Knit next stitch on each needle the same way. Pass first stitch over second stitch. Repeat from * until one stitch remains on third needle. Cut yam and puli taił through last stitch.

Tubular Cast-On

With contrasting waste yarn, use the backward-loop method (see page 105) to cast on half the number of stitches required. Cut waste yarn. Continue with working yarn.

Row 1: KI, *bring yarn to front to form a yarnover, kl (Figurę 1). Repeat from *.

Row 2: Kl, *bring yam to front, slip 1 purl-wise, hring yarn to hack, kl (Figurę 2).

Repeat from *.

Row 3: Bring yam to front, *slip 1 purlwise, bring yarn to back, kl, bring yarn to front. Repeat from * to last stitch, slip last stitch.

Work Rows 2 and 3 once morę, then work kl, pl ribhing as desired. Remove waste yarn after a few rows of ribhing.

Cut several lengths of yarn about five times the desired fin-ished cord length. Fold the strands in half to form two equal groups. Anchor the strands at the fold hy looping them over a doorknob. Holding one group in each hand, twist each group tightly in a clock-wise direction until they begin to kink. Put both groups in one hand, then release

1, them, allowing them to twist around each ,3 other counterclockwise. Smooth out the fw twists so that they are uniform along the Figurę 1 Figurę 2 length of the cord. Knot the ends.

Blooming Cotton Scarf (page 58)

Under Yam, color (CC6) shouki be *M15 dusty pink.

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