I first read about steeks while browsing knitting books at the bookstore.  A steek is a CUT YOU MAKE IN YOUR KNITTING.  When I read that, I almost dropped the book.

At the time, I'd just learned how to knit and it would take me about 20 minutes to complete a knit row of 20 stitches.  I couldn't imagine cutting my knitting.  The thought made me ill.

The gist of it is that if you're knitting in the round, like on circular needles and doing something complicated like a fair isle sweater, it's easier and faster to just knit the body of the sweater as a tube up to the neck.  Then you cut holes  (steeks) and attach the arms there by picking up stitches and knitting them or sewing on already-knit sleeves.

Well, the ends of my crazy phone cozy  were AWFUL ... loose, tight, knotty ... and I thought, hey, couldn't I just cut the edge off, like a steek?

I did some searches and found instructions that suggested that you sew along the edge where  you're going to make the steek.  So I did.  then I cut off the awful edges.

Please forgive me, because I was doing this late at night and most of my photos were bad, but here's some up close photos to show you what I did.





It worked.  But in my google searches, I saw another steek technique that I wanted to try.  Next up: crochet steeks!