Problem with knitting pattern ...

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NotQuiteCockney · 07/04/2007 12:42

Ok, so I'm making a snail hat, and I'm loving Zimmerman, really finding her easy. And then ... "At 5 sts fasten off. Sew border, and steam in a spiral."

Ok, I'm not even getting into the 'steam in a spiral bit', but what border am I meant to be sewing? By fasten off did she mean stop knitting, then sew remaining stitches together? Or what?

(I bound off, and am now peering at hat, trying to find a border to sew ...)

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NotQuiteCockney · 07/04/2007 20:35

Come on, someone's got to be around to help?

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warthog · 09/04/2007 19:48

sorry sounds strange to me too! did you get it sorted?

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/04/2007 20:20

No, I gave up and sewed in the ends. It looks good, anyway.

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ceolas · 09/04/2007 21:05

Too late, but AFAIK, fasten off means just thread the yarn through the remaining stitches and pull up tightly. Then sew in the end.

Not sure about the spiral bit...

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NotQuiteCockney · 09/04/2007 21:21

Oh, the hat is spiral. It's a really nice hat - the spiral is made with paired (but distant from one another) p2tog and m1.

Ah, I'd wondered if 'fasten off' meant to just do a provisional bind-off, like that. Well, too late. It's only 5 stitches, and it looks nice imo.

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ceolas · 09/04/2007 21:22

yes, bind off is the American expression I think.

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