the simplest-ever provisional cast on
You need: 2 circular needles & yarn
Needle 1 = needle you will knit with
Needle 2 = holder for the live sts (use a smaller needle size for this — you want snug loops)
1.Tie a slip-knot and place on Needle 2. Hold both needles together, Needle 1 on top
2. Wind yarn around both needles (from below, up and over, around back)
3. Continue to wind
4. When you have the desired number of stitches, pinch the yarn against the needles and turn them around to knit
4.1 ...like this
5. Holding yarn in place, pull Needle 2 through to dangle freely
5.1 (Needle 2 pulled through)
6. Getting ready to knit
7. Place yarn over index finger (around/catching cable for Needle 2)
8. Knit
9. Continue to knit
10. Knit final stitch and leave slip-knot in place on Needle 2 (remove this knot before knitting the live stitches on this cable)
completed first row
first row WS (wrong side)
three rows completed
March 10, 2012 at 10:45 pm
[...] starts with a very simple winding provisional cast-on. You toe-up sock people will probably recognize it as a Turkish cast-on, but used for flat knitting [...]
March 10, 2012 at 10:21 pm
Truly amazing! What a wonderful tip. Thank you!
March 11, 2012 at 6:31 am
You are most welcome! Glad it may be useful to you — I use it ALL the time. All the time — also for quick swatching as the provisional CO unravels quite efforthlessly when it’s time to frog the swatch (to swatch again and again…) å.
March 12, 2011 at 4:54 pm
brilliant! thank you so much!
February 27, 2011 at 9:59 pm
[...] the edges to match, and everytime I do one I’m so grateful for the tutorial I discovered on Tricosa’s blog. Come the end there’s no crochet chain to try and unpick, I’ll just put the needle ends [...]
February 15, 2010 at 8:40 am
Genius!
Thank you.
February 15, 2010 at 7:57 am
Just what I need, thank you.
February 15, 2010 at 7:14 am
I thought it was only me that couldn’t unzip a provisional cast on – this is now bookmarked-thank you