I-Cord (or similar) knit into finished project

mimiwillow · 11-25-2007, 11:09 AM

I recently was looking through my knitting books and saw a knit binding that looked like an I-cord that was knit into caps and such after the project was finished. Well, I finished the project, and for the life of me can't find which book it was in. I think it was knit picking up two or three stitches at a time around the finished work. Don't want to crochet an edge, and would really appreciate it if someone knew what I was talking about.

Miley384 · 11-25-2007, 04:14 PM

1) If you can't find the book it's in, try looking in the indexs.

2)Crochet is REALLY easy and it goes 10 times faster than knitting. Please give crochet a try. The border will look really nice when your done I promise.

Ingrid · 11-25-2007, 04:14 PM

I did this on a blanket and liked the way it turned out. What I did is pick up stitches all around. Then you knit 3 and slide them back onto the left tip.

K2, k2tog, and slide them back to the left needle. Do this all the way around the edge.

If you find it wants to curl up, you can insert another icord between the knitted work and the attached icord you already knit by picking up stitches again and doing another one.

Kime · 11-25-2007, 04:27 PM

If you want to see it in video Lucy Neatby covers i-cord, including i-cord boarders very well in Knitting Gems 1.

mimiwillow · 11-25-2007, 04:56 PM

Thank you. Ingrid, that is similar to what I remember the pattern saying, but I think you pick up the stitches as you go around and not at the beginning. Does that sound like it would work the same as what you are describing? Also, when you were describing curling and picking up stitches again and doing another icord, where are you picking up stitches - on the original edge? on the icord edge? Thanks so much . . .

Ingrid · 11-25-2007, 05:11 PM

I found it easier to pick up all the stitches--then the icord could be knit without having to keep picking up stitches. I've knitted icord edgings on sweaters, too, and all the stitches are already there. It works out nicely.

The second icord would go between the knitted object and the already-attached icord, if necessary.