Knitting Essentials: provisional cast-on

[HaleysComments]

Thank You!

[lovethemomma]

Easiest and best explained provisional crochet cast on video that I've seen -- thanks!

[123meaghanb]

So then what? You switch to your "real" yarn, knit your project and then what do you do when you want to join the end of your project to the beginning where you did the provisional cast on?

[cinephile126]

@123meaghanb I had the same question. I am assuming that's the case. you just knit those cast-on stitches. This way seems much easier by the way than others I've seen. Have you done this yet?

[TheClairelily]

@123meaghanb Then you take the provisitional yarn out carefully and slip those stitches onto a knitting needle. At least that's what my pattern calls for (Poppy hat from Ravelry), I haven't gotten to that part yet myself. :)

[Lydia667]

@123meaghanb you pick the tail out and pull it from the chain end and it unzips. put your stitches on the needle as you unzip them.

[weavingrancher]

This is a great video!! One question. Does the slip knot count as a stitch as you cst on? It seems as if when you unzip your provisional cast on if you have knit the slip stitch it will not come out. thanks so much , Lucy.

[Lydia667]

@weavingrancher the slip knot doesn't go on the knitting needle. you only count the loops you place on the needle.

[MrsAuburnChick]

Loved this video...so simple but helpful too! Thanks!

[judibea54]

I started a pattern requiring that I knit vertically from the center out to the sides from provisionally cast on stitches. This really helped!!!.

[RawJewel]

How is the "waste yarn" integrated with the yarn of the project?  I am missing something??

[SweetJasamine]

Thanks for such clear instructions, I was casting on within minutes of watching your video.

[TheSuzberry]

Wonderful way to make sure the provisional cast on is integrated with the knitting properly. And clearly presented. Thank you very much.

[lyric142]

Thanks so much. This is really clear. As a knitter AND a crocheter I love combining the two (even for just casting on).

[Jerannsb]

This is a great tutorial. Thanks

[bubbyof9]

I've watched about a dozen instructions on the provisional cast-on, and this one is absolutely the best. Speaker is very clear and orderly.

[dlttube100]

Excellent. Very clear and helpful. Thank you

[winenegress]

I just received a pattern asking for this cast on. Excellent, clear explanation.

[adcadcadcadcadcadc]

Thank you so much. That was very easy to understand.  I could not do it with the two needle method. It was too confusing.

[busyhappyknitter]

Hi, can you do a video on entrelac knitting? Please respond back when you get a chance to thanks alot . I love your knitting videos.

[eMarketingStrategist]

Thanks! That was very helpful.

[donstot1]

Lovely presentation. Thank you.

[bibliovixen]

This is so very clear and neat in presentation - thank you!

[robynwalton8888]

Thanks! Looks so easy, and yours unzips perfectly. Is there any reason the provisional cast-on would not unzip if I crocheted it on left handed? Mine does not unzip. It will unzip if I do it right-handed (I knit right-handed but crochet left), but it's very cumbersome. I experimented with lots of things, including with holding the crochet hook in my left, and keeping the working yarn over the needle. THAT seems to unzip. But I don't understand why. Do you?

[amandakprice]

This is a fabulous way to cast on for a provisional cast-on......thank you.

[AileenEKennedy]

Thank you for your clear instructions.

[wickedlittletwist]

Easy to understand, well made, super helpful

[knittr]

This was SO helpful! Thanks very much for doing this. :)

[Kazimierz1959]

Superb instructions, thanks a lot

[EJKDK]

excellent; thank you for sharing, Lucy

[Alessadellarocca]

Thank you so much for sharing your vast expertise with your wonderfully clear videos! Your contributions to the knitting community are much appreciated by your many fans, including me! I'm on a tight budget but look forward to buying some of your videos at a later date. Please, keep on posting to You Tube and thanks again.

[naturlich1]

Thank you for posting this, as well as your other videos, Lucy. I find your youtube channel to be a very valuable resource (both for myself and other knitters who need tutorials) and I appreciate your willingness to share your skills!

[silverstag21]

So clear and helpful, thanks!

[ispeaktheveritas]

thanks so much! very clear.

[RateMyKnitting]

Great tutorial video.

RMK

[vtelesford]

Really helpful and clearly explained. Thanks

[tiresome79]

I'm trying to start knitting clothes for myself but I'm on a tight budget, I picked up some good ideas at ebeginnersknitting (.) com

[JanetThomas9]

Great demo, thank you so much, now I know where I went wrong!

[Knitnana]

OH! Thank you! I had no idea, and have made it incredibly more complicated all these years...

[AmeliaFalseAlarm]

I have never understood this until I saw this video. Thank You!

[napoleaner]

This is the best! So simple, yet I never would have thought of it.

[cellogirl584]

Thank you for your wonderful video!

[sistadisco]

This is perfect, I don't know why I was scared of this technique for so long! Thank you so much!

[wwoodw1853]

great instruction, very clear thanks so much.

[DeGKyofangirl]

This is really clear and easy to follow.

[KraftsterBoOgie]

oh my gosh! ur great! this is way easier than that DominiKnitrix book demo, thank u!

[tholt576]

Great! I've just spend a very long time watching many Provisional cast on videos, and this is the first one I can manage to work. Thanks so much.

[emmmmaxoxo]

This is amazing! Works every time for me, and every time I do use it, I can hear Lucy saying "hook the yarn through, flip the yarn back" over and over in my head. :D

[swingsprite]

this is genius. thanks!

[MrBiGTzzz]

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[photolady7771]

Miss Lucy! Thank you for such clear, concise instructions! This video is so much easier to understand, than the one from knittinghelp.

Thank you!

[AluminumRain]

Great video, so incredibly helpful! Thanks so much!

[53cbrooks]

@AluminumRain

OOps... I did not mean to vote down and don't know how to change it!! so sorry.

[lisacoody]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

I'm so glad I found this video! This is so much simpler than trying to figure out which is "the back loop" on a crochet chain.

[katinspace]

awesome awesome awesome thanks

[1of2shoes]

Wonderful instruction thank you.

[tudorlover1]

Thank you so much for helping us new knitters, this wonderful technique.

[INDIALUCIA]

wonderful!!!

thank you for sharing this. great video!!!!

[smphelan]

such a great video and thank you for keeping your work in focus under the camera!

[MyDecebmer]

Great vid, thanks so much for clear instructions, with funny little remarks.

[justaysmom]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Wonderfully simple and totally understandable.

[katyrose23]

Perfect ~ thank you!  The written instructions make zero sense; this demonstration is so easy to follow.

[bnmuzic]

Beautiful...well done.  Thank U

[jkobis]

Makes it so much easier thank you

[jkobis]

thank you so much ! so much easier than other providional methods

[Mehitabel44]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I too tried other methods, but this one is so simple and you demonstrated it so well.

[yarnconfections]

Ohmigod! That was sooo easy! Thank you so much! Beautiful knit and crochet implements, by the way.

[thebookgal]

Excellent video. Everything else on the web was confusing and this was sooo simple and sooo clear! Thank you!

[battybaby]

I spent much of my lazy Saturday afternoon trying to perfect the provisional cast-on via a video I found on a popular knitting help website. Frustrated, I gave up on it last night. This morning I found your video and easily cast on 100 perfect stitches on my first attempt. THANK YOU!!!!!

[rasehallstudios]

Wow! That was excellent! Now I can start that Flower Basket Shawl I have been wanting to knit! TY very much.

[morokiya55]

thank you !!!!!

[jenniloves2sew]

Wonderful! Your video made this technique simple and I was able to do it. So handy! Thank you for posting this. :)

[paulyknit]

I thought it was hard thing to do. I was skipping patterns I liked because it used this cast on, but no more...THANKS

[CraftyAndy]

Simple and easy, Thank You!

[steptoe74]

A brilliant demo, really helpful, thanks so much!

[Halalsilks]

I really enjoy your videos and they help me see how easy knitting can be! thank you,

grace

[gabzzz12]

So Helpful! Thanks a lot!!!!

[ravensky23]

Amazingly helpful! Thank you, Lucy!