I don’t know about you, but I love i-cord. For the Bonhomie Wrap, Sarah Hatton has cleverly worked an integrated i-cord which gives the shawl a really tidy and elegant finished appearance.

To achieve this lovely uninterrupted i-cord border, the Bonhomie Wrap begins with an i-cord tab cast on. If you’ve started a triangle-shaped shawl with a garter tab cast on before, the general method will be familiar to you. You begin by provisionally casting on stitches with waste yarn, then establish the i-cord with your main yarn. Stitches are then picked up along the rows of this i-cord, and then along your cast-on edge. You remove the waste yarn and trah-la! you’ve got a tidy and ever-so pleasing start to the shawl. Jen shows you just how easing — and pleasing! — this method is in today’s video tutorial: i-Cord Tab Cast-On Method

Want to give the i-cord tab cast on a go? You can purchase the Something to Knit Together eBook in the online shop — you’ll immediately receive the pattern for the Bonhomie Wrap and accompanying photo tutorials, and a new pattern and tutorial will land in your inbox every three weeks for the rest of the summer (four patterns in total). We’re having fun making starts on our wraps in our Bonhomie Knitalong thread on Ravelry — we’d love to see you there (and any pattern from our back catalogue or Sarah Hatton’s is eligible for the KAL.) And don’t forget that if you have purchased Something to Knit Together, Sarah has kindly given us a discount code for 20% off any of her single pattern downloads from Ravelry, you’ll find full details in the new Welcome Pack pdf. Happy knitting!.