Picot Bind Off - Quick Tip

The PICO bind off is a common decorative bind off that you'll see in lots of knitting projects. You commonly see it used along the edges of baby items and shawls, but it has all sorts of applications in knitting. And I'd love to show you how to make it. Here. I have a swatch where I've done the PICO bind off.

And for this particular version of the PICO bind off, I have an odd number of stitches on my knitting needle and we are about to bind off on a right side row. So if your particular project does not have an odd number of stitches, uh there's two things you can do to still work this bind off that I'm going to show you. You can either on your last wrong side row, either add a stitch or take a stitch away, either with an increase or a decrease to get to an odd number or when it comes to the final step of this bind off, you'll just be binding off four stitches instead of five, it's really up to you to work the PICO bind off, we're gonna first bind off a stitch. So we're going to knit one stitch, knit a second stitch and then pass the first stitch over the second, just like that. Now, we're going to slip that stitch to the left needle and cast on three stitches using the cable cast on to do the cable cast on.

We're going to bring our needle in between the stitches to make our stitch. So with the knitted cast on, you're often going into the stitch, we're going to go between the two stitches, make a stitch, place it on the left needle. That's one. And we're going to do that two more times. Now that we've done that, we're going to bind off five stitches and we're just using a regular knit wise bind off and now we're ready to keep repeating that process.

So we're going to slip that last stitch from the right needle to the left needle cast on three stitches, using the cable cast on one to three and then bind off knit wise five stitches you can see here, I have my first two little picots formed. So I'm just gonna keep working all the way down the road in the same manner to finish my picot bind off. I'm just casting on three stitches just like I have been and we're going to bind off those final five stitches. So that's done. We can just bring the yarn through our final loop and we've completed our PICO bind off