By Popular Request: Stretchy Bind-Offs!

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Zoe — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:30:51 GMT

When I am not well, I do love to read my knitting books. I never ever tire of the sock books and read and re-read them. I prop them up on my pillow in bed. I often will fall asleep looking at the pictures.

Ellymae, I too get a headache at the base of my head where the neck vertebrae meets the skull. This leaves me unable to knit. Very frustrating.

I have found that small items to knit are not as tiring for me so I stick to socks, hot pot mats, etc. Sometimes I will switch to crochet as that uses somewhat different muscles and then it is not so bad. Its still working with the yarn!

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NatashaH — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:23:59 GMT

I realize this post is long past but I just got my laptop working again... yeesh.

Everytime I see this method touted as the perfect cast off for toe-up socks I want to stamp my feet and cry; This is the cast of I use most often, and yes - it is much streatchier than others but when I try it on socks it doesn't stretch enough and doesn't spring back to fit snugly against the leg.

WHAT AM I DOING WRONG????

I've tried larger needles, smaller needles, looser guage, tighter... etc. I just can't find anything that works. And I love toe-up socks. :-( Very sad.

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Ellymae — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:16:53 GMT

I love reading your comments, and I know now that I'm not the only obsessed knitter.Unfortunately, I recently developed a 'pinched nerve' in my neck which leaves me doing 'nothing'. I can hardly pick up a book. Since January I've knitted 3 pairs adults socks (on 4 needles, just love socks) 3 pairs of childrens socks from leftovers, two complete baby outfits, a sweater, hat, and scarf set etc. I have a grandson on the way due in August and I even have a hard time typing. Are there other knitthers that are experiencing this kind of pain? And are there any solutions, I am havig physio. My moher knitted from age 5 to 88 and never had any problems with knitting.

Sincerely, Eleonora

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cathymoore — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:37:27 GMT

I always make lots of hot tea and snuggle with a fuzzy blankie and my dogs. They seem to know I need extra care so they snuggle really close and actually lie still as long as I want to with no wiggling. Hope you're back to good health soon!

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HaBaHaBa — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 10:56:12 GMT

I like to use Jeny's Surprisingly Stretchy Bind-Off, although it looks a little bit sloppy when unstretched.

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SharonC@67 — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:17:31 GMT

Quit worrying about DOING things & just get better!! Relax, we can get along without you for a day or two more . . . . listen to Audio Books. Drink plenty of tea & eat oranges, you'll be well in a jiffy! take this recovery time to just BE. We'll be doing plenty of knitting in your name . . . .

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SherryC — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:05:45 GMT

What a saving grace that you re-printed this ! I'd been searching for this very article for awhile now! THANK YOU!

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Elizabeth — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:22:13 GMT

Sandi,

Get well soon!

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Jeanne Fangman — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:46:51 GMT

I crawl in bed with a hot water bottle tucked inside a soft and yummy knitted cover.

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AnaH — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:47:50 GMT

Hi Sandy,

Glad you're feeling better. The stomach flu is a nasty one, for sure. At least with a cold, you can still knit with your tissue box nearby....

With the nastiness of the flu, however, when it is quite impossible to wield needles and all you can do is writhe in pain and feel sorry for yourself, I actually find myself knitting in my mind. Yup.....I dream about knitting. I dream about all the yarns I would love to buy (but can't) and imagine knitting with them. But I also actually knit in my mind.....I cast on, work increases and decreases, speed through the boring parts and all that. I think through techniques and have really learned a lot this way. I'd like to think I'm becoming a "thinking knitter" as E.Z. puts it. "Visualizing" a difficult concept gives you a head-start when you get hands on needles again.

Knitters do not waste time! Even when ill.

Dream on...

Ana

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SharonC — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:28:29 GMT

Well, not when I'm sick. But I take a swatch (already made) to the DENTIST with me. I get the gas, and I fondle the swatch. And think hard about the texture, the pattern, if I want to change it, etc. It works for me, and they're used to it now!

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AngelaE — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:45:57 GMT

Sandi, too sick to knit? You must be really ill! In fact thats' how I guage how sick I am. Many times I'm too sick to go to work, but rarely too sick to knit! How about a simple afghan pattern? Something mindless? Get well soon!

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CathyW — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:21:29 GMT

Ahh, right now I have an injury that's inconveniently placed for holding knitting needles - I can theoretically knit if I use a kind of weird grip, but it's so slow and awkward as to not be worthwhile. So I'm petting my yarn, tossing my stash a bit, and fantasizing about all the lovely sweaters in my magazine collection.

More along the lines for "soothing", the injury had to have stitches, and I was a little freaked out about this - until Hubby pointed out that the watercolor painting hanging right over the bed in the exam room was grazing sheep. I guess if I can't have yarn, a picture of sheep is the next best thing.

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ALA — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:46:26 GMT

Wait, there's something wrong with cuddling yarn? I think you need to take a whole bunch of alpaca skeins to bed and surround yourself.

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alena@5 — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:01:25 GMT

Hey! This IS the bind-off I use normally - now I'm really puzzled - is there another "normal" bind-off? Hmm...