Knitting Zen

I'd been dreading binding off the Chinchilla scarf. I hate binding off anyway, but with this yarn, I knew it was going to be a nightmare.

My normal bind-off is the one where you knit two stitches, then pass the first one over the second and off the needle, but I found a new way to bind off this morning as I was reading through the Big Book of Knitting that I got from the library.

It showed a method of knitting two stitches together, then putting the stitch you made back on the left-hand needle, then knitting it together with the next stitch, etc. Maybe that's the way the rest of the world already binds off, but it was a revelation to me. Still not a walk in the park with the Chinchilla, but better than it might have been.

I'd give it to someone, but I have a fear that one of these days it's going to spontaneously self-destruct and start unraveling from the middle . . .