Bind-offs for ribbing
In knitting, we almost always bind off after some rounds of ribbing. This is the reason why bind-offs (BOs) that work well with ribbing are essential techniques. Surprisingly, considering their usefulness, it's quite difficult to find good information on this subject. Here is my humble contribution. First, let us discuss what does it mean "to work well with ribbing". What do we want from such a BO? One, we want it to be as elastic as ribbing, two, we want to it to be attractive. The latter means mainly two things: it should be as discrete as possible and it shouldn't flair. In addition, we would prefer a technique that is not too difficult. There are many BO techniques available out there, but quite sincerely many are not worth the trouble. Why? Because in general, it's not easy to find one that fulfils all of the above conditions. On the contrary, elastic BOs are generally unattractive. In what follows I'll not bother to mention techniques that in my opi...