Basil KAL Day 5: Final Tail and Leg Bits

Just a short post today, a couple things on the tail and the legs. Monday I will wrap up my KAL here by going over all the finishing.

So first of all, after your finished the neck and head, you are going to want to move on to the tail. To do this you will just slip your stitches from the waste yarn back onto your needles. You will just want to slip them purl wise so as not to twist your stitches as you move them. I find it helpful to lift up on the waste yarn to make the transfer easier, like so:

Also, I find it easiest to just leave the waste yarn in the stitches until you have them all moved on to your needles:

Then you can just pull it out all at once, with no danger of dropping any stitches. Though you can start anywhere on the tail, since the decreases make it all the same, I like to start here, where my needle is inserted into the stitch:

Ok, I felt like the tail was pretty self-explanatory, so those were my only notes for you. For the legs, I went ahead and knit them Magic Loop, since I like it much better than dpns. When I cast on, I like to leave a long tail that I can use to sew the legs to the body once I am done knitting:

I use the same jogless jog technique I mentioned earlier on the legs to knit the stripes. For the heel, to secure the tail of the last CC round, I knit the next round in MC as the pattern states. Then I stop and knot the CC tail to the working yarn before moving on:

When I go to work the heel flap, I go ahead and do the jogless jog by lifting the stitch from the round below as I knit the 3 sts in round 32. You can see the 2 sts being knit together here: