How to Remove Work From a Knitting Hoop

A knitting hoop requires less coordination than traditional knitting.

Removing knitting from a needle or a knitting hoop is what is known as binding off. There are several methods for binding off, depending on what project you are doing, but one particular method uses the same kitting skills you used to create your project in the first place. This method of binding off only requires the tools that you have been using to knit the object on the knitting hoop.

Things You'll Need

• Finished knitting project, on hoop
• Knitting hoop
• Yarn
• Knitting hoop hook or tool
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Find the last stitch you made on your project. On the hoop, all of the pegs will be filled, and there will be a strand of yarn leading to your ball. If you knitted clockwise around the hoop, then the last stitch will be to the right of the strand. Your second-to-last stitch will be one more loop to the right. If you knitted counterclockwise around your knitting hoop, the last loop will be to the left of the yarn, and the second to last will be one more to the left.

2. Lift your second-to-last stitch off its peg with your knitting tool, and pull it down on the peg that the last stitch is on. Your second-to-last stitch will be above your last stitch on the same peg. Pull the last stitch up and over the second to last, leaving one stitch on the peg. Move the stitch back to its peg. This is your new last stitch. Repeat until you have one loop still on a peg.

3. Cut the yarn, leaving a tail on your piece of about 6 inches. Pull the tail through the last loop. Weave the ends in.

Tips & Warnings

• You can create a beaded edge by slipping a large bead over the loop that you move. So on your first stitch you would lift up the second-to-last loop, slide a bead over it and then place it on the last peg, then bind off as usual.

• You always want to do this kind of bind-off in the opposite direction you did your knitting, starting with the last stitch you did. Trying to start elsewhere or going in the wrong direction means the binding off won't work and your project could unravel.

References

• Loom Knitting Help; Knit Bind-off Method; Rebecca Novelli