Kind of need a knitting icon

[jamethiel]

I have a question. I'm getting seriously into lace knitting: I'm currently knitting the haruha scarf (v easy) and I'm thinking about trying a slightly more challenging lacy shawl.

I was clicking around on links today when I found this, which is a fabulous review of cast on techniques for lace. While I have observed for myself that your standard cast off/on is sometimes too tight for the airy-ness of lace and can lead to some... strange shapes in the finished piece, my question is this.

Invisible cast-ons leave live stitches once the temporary false cast-on edge has been unravelled. What do you then do with the live stitches?? Do they get individually sewn back into the pattern? Or do you need to have some kind of edge for every knitted lace piece you make? I'm a little confused.

Comments

[neotoma]

I'd only used the invisible cast-on for pieces that are going to have a knitted or crocheted edging. Otherwise sewing them down sounds very tedious.

[jamethiel]

Ah, okay. Methinks I must learn to crochet! And now I want to start a project that uses this technique, but I must finish the ones I already have on the needles