Often people worry about binding off when there is more than one loop on the same side of your last row.
Here’s a series of shots of how to just do it, one loop at a time, and why it works.
Pick up our green column….
And then our flax column….
Now we pick up another green….
…and the next flax, from the same side as the last green. You’ll notice the flax row has a double float on the edge now.
But that’s okay! As soon as we pull the next green loop over the last flax loop, it locks it solidly in place, just like when they alternate. It’s not going anywhere.
To keep the tension until the whole potholder is bound off, I hook loops back onto the loom after binding them off. It stretches them out a bit, as you can see here…
And the stretched loops are still visible right after taking it off the loom.
So we go to the base of each stretched loop, grab it by the short side, and tuuuuuug it to even the distortion.
After tugging, the stretched loops settle back into place.
