So BOM square #2 is officially done. I called it done the other day, but still had the bind off today. Michelle uses Grandma's Favorite Bind Off. It's a bind off I hadn't ever heard of, but Michelle likes it because it gives a nice stretchy even edge. And, I tried it, A. It's easy and B. the edge looks awesome!
The basics of the b/o are to P2TOG, put loop back on LH needles and repeat. Super simple and like I said, nice looking edge.
For those that don't know Michelle, she works at Temptations in Dublin, her rav name is Sockqueen and she has designed a LOT of socks! Her website which is linked above has tons of tips and different videos to check out.
Speaking of socks, Cath and I were going to do a KAL but that was put on hold. I did start a sock, but have decided to wait since I really want to make Secret Garden. So yesterday, I casted on for Secret Garden and this morning I ripped it out because I didn't like the way the toe looked. I'll start over again sometime today.
Ahh yes, the BO with several names! I've heard that called Russian BO and also decrease BO (and other names I can't recall at the moment). ...and then there's also the variation where you do it in pattern, too. I use that quite a bit, my favorite variation being to do it in pattern using k2togTBL for the knits. There's also a similar BO that has you slipping a stitch from LN to RN before decreasing: You do one normal BO to begin; *next, you slip the next stitch p-wise to the RN; then you do a decrease by putting LN through the fronts of the 2 sts and pulling a loop through (a ssk variation, so this would be considered a "knit" BO). Repeat from *. For the purl version: you'd still slip p-wise, then put LN through the backs of the two sts and pull a loop through (a p2tog variation). I forget how this BO looks, so now you have me wanting to revisit it so that I can compare the two since they're so similar ;-p
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