Kitchener stitch (stockinette)
Knitting - Basic Techniques

This is a method for joining 2 pieces, worked in stockinette stitch, using a yarn needle. The grafting forms a new row. Prepare a length of yarn about 3 times the width of the pieces. With the right side of both pieces facing and arranged as shown, begin grafting at the right-hand edge. Be sure to adjust your tension as you work, so that the Kitchener stitch is the same gauge as the pieces being joined.

When both ends are live stitches
	Take the yarn from the bottom piece and insert the needle into the stitch on the top piece. Go back to the bottom piece and insert the needle as shown by the arrow.
	Return to the stitch on the top piece, and insert the needle as shown by the arrow.
	Insert the needle into the same stitch on the top piece and the next stitch, and continue as shown by the arrow.
	Repeat steps 2 and 3.
	Insert the needle into the last stitch and pull it through. Because the knitted stitches go in the opposite direction, work a half stitch at the edge.
When the stitches on 1 piece have been bound off
	Begin with the yarn from the edge with the live stitches and take a half stitch on the bound-off edge, inserting the needle as shown by the arrow.
	Take 1 stitch on the bound-off side as shown.
	Continue across as shown, referring to the instructions for both sides with live stitches, if needed. Finish as step 5 above.