Judy B wrote: “Wonderful pattern! Thank you for creating and sharing this gorgeous piece.”
The shape of the crescent is filled in with ever-widening simple garter stitch short rows. The crescent part of the neck lace is done when no more stitches remain at either end of needle when you make the turn.
Now you are ready to bind off. In the Beaded Crescent Neck Lace design, beads are added to the bind off row to embellish the upper neckline of the crescent.
Stringing Beads for Binding Off
Before beginning the bind off, string your yarn with the number of beads you will need. To avoid extra ends, I suggest cutting the yarn to leave a tail long enough to do the bind off. Then string the beads to the yarn end still attached to the knitting.
Note: Later on when incorporating the beads into the bind off row, you’ll actually be pushing the beads toward the knitting as needed i.e. the opposite of what we’ve usually done before.
Tip: How long of a tail to leave? I figured approximately 4 times the width to be bound off. For Beaded Crescent Neck Lace, this is about 3 yards.
How Many Beads?
Since the beads will be placed every other bind off stitch, and you have a total of 113 stitches for Beaded Crescent Neck Lace, and you will need:
113 divided by 2 = 56 beads
Tip: In beading math we ignore the leftover fractions, since we aren’t going to be splitting up a bead into pieces!
Beaded Purl vs. Knit Bind Off
Remember that beads want to go to the bumpy side of the stitches. So if binding off from the right side of the project, you will want to do a purl bind off rather than a knit bind off. Note: The Beaded Crescent Neck Lace is otherwise essentially reversible, but I wanted to give you a chance to use the beaded purl bind off method.
Binding Off to Stabilize the Neckline
This is one of those times when you don’t have be concerned about keeping a very loose bind off. There are 2 reasons that a firmer bind off is actually preferred for this neckline:
- The beads will stay in position.
- The neckline will not stretch out.
Of course, you don’t want to bind off so tightly to cause rippling of the fabric or strangling your neck! Your bind off can be snug, but should not be distorted.
Next up
After making this small crescent-shaped project, my hope is that you’ve become comfortable doing this type of short-row, bottom-up scarf/shawl construction.
With your confidence in place, you are now ready to knit larger crescent-shaped scarves/shawls with more complicated stitch patterns. In fact, I even have something to tempt you that was just released earlier this month: the Swags of Lace Crescent Scarf.
Reminder! There’s a Special Edition Kit for Swags of Lace Crescent Scarf with yarn/beads/pattern you can win in October’s Giveaway.
Watch for this coming Bonus: Adapting the Beaded Crescent Neck Lace to other sizes.
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Thank you!! I have heard of Evernote, but haven’t tried it. I’ll look into it, but the button on the right worked for me. Thank you one and all, for the terrific suggestions. I appreciate them very much and look forward to starting the next project!
Katie
Oh, fiddlesticks!!! I went back to rip the row out and re-read the pattern and lo and behold it says “repeat from *” and that pesky asterisk is BEFORE the p2tog. Color my face EMBARRASSED!!!
Glad you are good to go now. Looking forward to seeing your Neck Lace.
I’m wondering what I’m doing wrong…I am trying to bind off my necklace, but I only have enough beads (56) to do half of the job. I’m thinking that either I need to do a p2tog without a bead between each beaded p2tog or beaded p3tog all the way across. What am I doing wrong?
It sounds like you have misread the instructions and overlooked some a some words. There IS a p2tog without a bead between each beaded p2tog. Do you see that now? Let me know. You are so close to finishing. Yay!
Hi Jackie,
I love your KAL, but I have to work off-line and have appreciated the Print View where I could save to PDF for off-line viewing. I don’t seem to see that anymore. Did it move somewhere I’m not seeing? I hope you can bring that back if it is gone, or point me to where to find it now. Thank you!
Katie
This was a beautiful piece of work, thank you for being so generous with your talent . Even tho it did not need it I sewed a slide clasp to the ends and made it a piece of jewelry.
Katie, I also have to work offline. I Highlight (click-and-drag) the article, Copy, then Paste into a Word document.
Thanks, Lily – that’s a great solution! -Katie
Oops, Lili (sorry for mis-spelling).
Unfortunately, the company that makes Print Friendly updated their software, and now it will not work with our site. I just could not justify continuing to spend money on something that is not working (and it is unknown how long another update to their software will be made to work as we need it to). There are several other ways of saving posts for offline viewing, depending on what capabilities you have on your computer or mobile device. Some have already been mentioned here by others. I am not sure if Evernote has been mentioned, but I myself use that to organize the internet articles I want to read/save. It works on your computer as well as there are apps for mobile devices. Just something else you might want to look into as it could help with other things, too.
Try the Print/PDF button on the right sidebar (just beneath Links and above Affiliate Login).