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You don't know what you don't know until you know it

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I got to the finishing stages of the Art Nouveau sweater  just a few days ago and I came across something in the pattern so simply, yet so affective which I had never seen before. 

The sweater was worked top down and I had completed the bottom rib which was a Ktbl, P1 rib, ie I was working twisted knit stitches which I was very fine with and actually love as a rib. I always cast off rib in pattern and just assumed I would do the same but no!. The pattern said, Knit 1 row and then cast off in knit. 

Before I cast off though, I did a little research to see if this was correct, it seemed too simple. And whilst I found plenty of stretchy cast off's that could cope with a normal k1,p1 rib or k2, p2 rib there was nothing for a k1tbl p1 rib. So I thought, Ok, lets' give this is a go. 
What an easy change and what a lovely result.  As the twisted knit stitches actually stretches the rib out so it lays flat and doesn't contract like standard rib does, therefore you don't need any complicated stretchy cast off, just a nice neat one.

So remember things are not nearly as difficult as you might first think. Approach a new technique, pattern, yarn or whatever with the confidence of a toddler in their favorite super hero shirt.

Some of the results of my research............ (click on the buttons below)
Normal Cast off for K1, P1 rib
How to knit Twisted Rib
Different Stretchy cast off's for rib
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