Provisional cast on

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Provisional cast-ons used to annoy me until I discovered this quick and easy method. I show you how to knit it in the video for my provisional cast on tutorial with accompanying written instructions.

Slow Motion Provisional Cast-On - VeryPink offers knitting patterns and video tutorials from Staci Perry. Short technique videos and longer pattern tutorials to take your knitting skills to the next level.

I'm going to show you another version of the provisional cast-on. We'll be using an interchangeable cable. It's an easy provisional cast-on that works well with a medium to large number of cast-on stitches. It's called The Invisible Cast-On (aka: Provisional Wrap Cast-On or Open Lo

Use a crochet hook to do a provisional cast-on directly on your knitting needle.

What is a Provisional Cast On? A provisional cast-on is a blanket term for any sort of cast-on which leaves live stitches, which can later be knit from in the opposite direction.

This video tutorial shows you how to use a crochet hook and waste yarn to do a provisional cast-on in knitting. This cast-on makes it easy to seam ends together later on in the project.

Carefully remove a provisional cast-on in order to expose live stitches from your cast-on edge.

Hello, and welcome to my new blog! I want to show you what I think is a great and simple provisional cast on. You will need 2 circular needles, one can have a smaller size tip, or just a cable if you are using those handy interchangeables. Leave a long tail, especially if casting on a large number of stitches. Attach your yarn to the lower needle or cable with a slip knot. Holding both needles parallel, wrap the yarn from the back and over the top of the working needle. You will want it…

Learn the useful Crochet Chain Provisional Cast-On (aka Two Step Provisional Cast-On) in our easy step-by-step tutorial.

DON'T MISS! this video about The trick to knitting a waste yarn provisional cast on! Also some good tips!

Crochet Provisional Cast-On Video

Learn how to do a provisional cast on with this lovely tutorial from Paola Albergamo. You can use this tutorial to help you complete the Boccioli Infinity Scarf from the April 2017 issue of I Like Knitting. Enjoy! Take a length of waste yarn longer than the length of the finished CO, to comfortably hold all necessary stitches. 1) Make a slip knot with the working yarn and place it on the needle. 2) Hold the needle, the working yarn and the waste yarn tails with your right hand, keeping the…

How to do the provisional cast on in the round around a spare cord or a piece of waste yarn.

Back in December '06, TECHknitting featured provisional crocheted cast on. That post promised a future trick to get around a long-standing problem--that there is ALWAYS going to be one fewer loop working down than working up. In October '07, this blog showed another method of provisional cast on: the COWYAK method. In the comments to that post, a reader touched on the same issue, writing... "When I unzip my provisional cast-on, why are there one fewer stitches going "down" than going "up,"…

The tubular cast-on is a worthwhile edging that looks beautiful and compliments ribbing perfectly. Follow our step-by-step tutorial to try it!

This waste yarn (scrap yarn) provisional cast on gets stitches on your knitting needle super fast! Here's a tutorial to help you master it and to see why I call it the Itsy Bitsy Spider Cast On.