The BO was fiddly to work like most sewn BOs. I had a difficult time figuring out how tightly/loosely I should adjust my sewn stitches because there wasn’t a point of reference for me like with the Tubular BO, but overall it was easier than the Tubular Bo. It does lose points for being kind of ugly if this is how it’s supposed to look.
My 2 inch swatch stretches 5.5 inches, but it doesn’t snap back down. You have to tug at the edge and reshape it yourself. That always annoys me.
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Yours looks right to me (unless mine was also incorrect) and I’m not a huge fan of its appearance, either. To me it looks a little like the wrong side of long-tail, and I think it looks better on a non-ribbed edge.
It’s great that you are doing all these bind-offs, it’s so helpful to be able to compare them and get someone’s opinion of them too.
As I understand it, there are two Elizabeth Zimmerman sewn bind offs, the one that is most prevalently called her ‘Sewn Bind off’ and does not, in fact, match the long tail cast on, but does look good with Garter stitch. I think that’s what you’ve done. The other one is called ‘outline stitch’, which does, when worked backwards (right to left) match long tail cast on, though it sometimes needs a bit of blocking to look as neat as the cast on edge.
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