So, the # of stitches we pick up from the i-cord needs to coincide with our project gauge, which reinforces the importance of determining your gauge, the comparison sends it home for any nonbelievers. Great series Suzanne.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am especially grateful to know how and/or why something does or does not work, which you explain in terrific detail. For me, that is the difference between mimicking and learning. Thank you again!

You are an excellent teacher. Many of us can become experts at doing a given task, but are not good at teaching that task. A good teacher can break the given task into individual steps. The excellent/exceptional teacher can explain why each step is done as instructed and result of each step if done otherwise. Thank you.

Thanks for the video! Novice knitter who needs all the help he can get. I love learning new skills, techniques, and “the why” of it all. Being asked to like, comment, and subscribe is such a small price to pay for these virtual lessons in the hobby I love. Keep it up Suzanne!!

The depth you went into here was so helpful! Thank you!

Thank you again! This also explains why the horizontal braid stitch also gets that elongated first row since it's basically a one stitch i-cord.

Thank you, Suzanne! This was so helpful to me, you have no idea. :D I have picked up and knitted on an i-cord before, but not like this!!! I love your video tutorials so much! The way you explain the whys and wherefores gives me a new understanding and love of knitting.

I love re-watching your videos.

This is very helpful. I love your attention to detail. It confirms that I am not just a nerdy knitter, or if I am im in good company !

Great explanation! Another bonus to starting with an i-cord and picking up stitches, is you can use a contrasting colour for the i-cord if you like.

Thank you Suzanne. I love your instructions. You always explain the why. 💖

Thank you so much for the clarity of all (and I mean ALL) your video demonstrations and explanations.

suzanne you are just brilliant! thank you for sharing so much knitting knowledge with us. i love your explanations... fab!!

Suzanne, thank you so much for this valuable information. Your explanation turned on 💡 for me. Best available tutorial by far.

I love your videos. I know I can click the thumbs up as soon as it arrives.

Hey Suzanne I am a big fan of yours, you have no idea how much you have helpt me! Great greatings from Belguim

Excellent tutorial and explanation!

Thanks for all your videos... I find them easy to follow...if not so easy to "do" -- trying to get accustomed to English knititng after watching you knitting both English and Continental in order to knit with two colors. It's so hard to do the English! In knitting the moss st, continental is much less movement with hands.

Love your tutorials, so clear

Great job....Very detailed work....just what I needed.

Great timing, I am just about to start a pattern that asks me to make an icord then pick up. I though ew, that’s so much picking up, and searched for an alternative. Now, watching your video, I decided not to be lazy.

Thanks Suzanne great details!

Thank you for this!! I am about to start a top with a 2 stitch icord cast on, and it's so darn tight and difficult to even knit the last stitch 🤣

The same problem with enlarged first row stitches happens with a cable cast on, which I avoid by using needles one whole size smaller for the cast on, then switch to the working needle size from the first row onwards.

This was a wonderful and very useful video. Thank you!

This is very helpful 🤩🤩 Thank you so much ✨✨

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This is fantastic. Great explanation too!

Oh it’s really great I learnt it today I’ve never seen or heard before

Another awesome tutorial. Thanks

Great video Susan, thank you learned a lot.

Thanks for the clear video.. I love the first cast on with these modifications... I use a provisional CO for the first 4 stitches, then work the cast on a needle 2 sizes smaller than the work to be place upon it..That takes care of the arching and "big stitch row". Also I work my increases by inserting my left needle tip from left to right into the stitch below and knitting it. This makes a very smooth increase, no horizontal bumps and keeps the row/stitch gauge much truer..

Going to try this out.

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Thanks for video. Beginner knitte r. I would not have understood the difference until you demonstrated.

Such a good detailed instruction!

Excellent, thank you!

I dont like making icords so the only time Id use them would be when a project suits a machine. Made icord. It does make a lovely edge . It was very interesting that it makes a difference where you pick up your stitches from , that had never entered my head!

This is just brilliant!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge, God has gifted you amazingly!!

I have never used an I cord yet but interesting to learn these points from yourself. Thanks from Australia 🐨🐨🦘🦘

Well that is interesting. I'm getting ready to do a brioche scarf that uses an icord cast on. I may be doing this.

omg....thank you, Suzanne, for this.....i i-cord co, i-cord bo and knit-as-you-go i-cord edging.....i love lining my works with either i-cord or garter stitch....in my opinion, i-cord and garter stitch feels masculine...so they add a little masculine design while the body of your work can be feminine like adding bullion roses or any kind of lacey stitching....the i-cord and garter stitch can help balance the look of your piece if you are going for little of both worlds

Really great video, thank you so much 🙂

Thanks for this great video Suzanne! I’m about to start a top down summer T with an icord cast on. Since I want the neck opening to be pulled in a little should I pick up one stitch in each leg or do the other way by skipping to have the row gauge match the stitch gauge?

Looks heaps better, thank you!

this works great! thank you

You're a genius. Thank you!!

First time I see the icord cast-on AND the first row made as you worked in the beggining, I am a tight knitter, impossible to me... I usually make the icord and then use it as base chain :) It depends the look that we want in the end :)

Brilliant!

Thank you so much!! I have been fighting the I-cord CO for days. This is by far better!!!!!!!

such a useful video thank you, Ive been looking at cast on and offs, Ive bought some cashmere wool to make a scarf and want to carefully plan ! Im going to use a fishermans rib variation K1K1b with a 2 stitch icord edge. so looking at your videos would I be better off casting on from an icord and spacing to get a good row gauge as the rib will be stretchy and bouncy? but how do I then make sure that each end of the scarf looks the same ?

Love your videos

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Hi, this looks so much better than what I've gotten by actually casting on that i-cord. I need to CO 126 stitches...how do I keep track of how many stitches I've made? I hate to undo what I've already done but that first row of stitches is too tall and looks strange. Is there a way to "fix" what I've got so far without tearing it all out and starting fresh with just an i-cord? Thanks!

Hi Suzanne, the 1st demo where the next row of stitches after the icord are larger. This also happens when doing a Latvian braid row. In the middle of the knitting. Is there away to overcome the row of larger stitches after the Latvian braid row?

Nice!

Suzanne would you advise using I-Cord bind off on the armhole with out using ribs.?

I have two questions related to gauge and stitch quantity; an earlier viewer mentioned this. I have picked up the stitches on the I cord, at the ratio of 3 stitches, skip 1, 2 st., skip 1, which is that gauge in your demo. (1) how does one determine one's gauge of I cord with respect to a 4 x 4 swatch? (2) If my project calls for 144 stitches cast on, do I count only the stitches I pick up or include the ones I skipped, or do something else? Many thanks for this and all your instruction!

I like your video - nice to see up close and slow….. do you also have a M1pl or r … video? Wonder if I can substitute knit in front and back / purl in front and back !!!

the cord is beautiful!

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How do you do button loops for babies cardigans

I am confused about the three-two 'pass one' pickup from the icord (your preferred method). How do you know how many stitches the icord has to be in order to get the number of stitches you need to pick up from it, for the body of your work, since you're not picking up every v of the icord? Doesn't the icord have to be (more stitches) longer than the body. I hope my question is clear. Your resulting

What happens if you pick up both legs of each stitch instead of front or back leg?

I have a question please. If you make an i cord co, but you don’t need all of it or the beginning was too tight. Is there a way to not use all of it and still not have to remake it in order to start knitting your project and basically have to restart and make a new one?

Can u guide for how to learn how many stitches for diff ages of sweaters I can’t make it the shaping of sweaters also

I'll bet you see a lot of "neon lights" as knowledgeable as you are!! It must take some real skill to come up with positive comments to make when you see them. What do you say to a knitter who is halfway through a scarf with garter stitch borders that are much too short for the body of the scarf where your solution of adding short rows would be just the thing? Or someone who has obviously not done a gauge swatch because the beautiful yarn they are using is being squeezed into a gauge much too tight to let the yarn breathe? I usually keep my mouth shut because I know I have so much yet to learn and the knitters are usually so enthusiastic about their projects. But I always highly recommend the great KZfaq videos done by Suzanne Bryan and suggest they check them out!

Can you please explain how I sew 6 stitches that remain, after doing an I cord on the neck of a cardigan that meets an I cord edge coming up from the front, at the shoulder? It is not clear to me how I can make them disappear as they are in a noticeable place...3 stitches from the neck I cord and 3 stitches from the top shoulder seam, along tbe left front side. Thank you for your help❤

I saw this technique, or had to apply it about 15 years ago in a design from Hanna Falkenberg, a Danish designer. Did you get that from the Danish knitters? And i did not know your basic I cord cast on.

so - if I'm swapping out a crochet cast on for a two stitch I cord - pattern says to CO 84 stitches - my gauge is 19st x 26rows per 4" - how do I exactly know how many stitches to CO for the I-Cord?

Maybe watch the Stephen West video on the i-chord cast on method….much easier! 😉

I'm glad to know I wasn't doing my icord wrong. The big stitches are such an eyesore. If I get the right row gauge in the beginning will it block out to match the rest of the project?

So do you cast on more stitches in the I cord to accommodate the stitch count of 5?

Do you have the cast on in written direction form? If so, where might I get it??????

I always knit stitches through the back loop, is that 'wrong'? Should I have been going through the other way? Or is it consistency that really matters? I'm self taught.

do you always knit the first stitch or would it be better to slip it?

Picking up 3 skip then pick up 2 skip on seems terribly arbitrary. Wouldn't it be a better solution to use a smaller needle to make the I-Cord so it matches my swatch? Or a bigger so I get pick 1 skip 1 or something?

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Hi Suzanne! This is very interesting - I have a knitting pattern that will be released on Ravelry that calls for an i-cord CO. Would it be ok to include a link to this video in the pattern PDF? If you prefer that I do not, no problem! Love your tips and tricks! Gina

Wonderful • thank you for teaching us •❤︎• How will we do this in the round ? If i wanted to knit a top down sweater and use this i-cord cast on as the neck ? Do you have a tutorial, please ?

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Why make it SO bloody complicated????? 😂

I found this insulting the 5 minute how to hit like and subscribe intro was excessive -assuming all of us are either from another planet or born yesterday- is offensive.

Ohhh no. Not “Team Joe”. 🫣