Provisional Cast On

This cast on is awesome! It gives you live stitches at the cast on edge after you unzip it, which will allow you to knit in the opposite direction without a detectable seam. The blue yarn is the waste yarn and the white is the working yarn.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• knitting
• cast on
• tutorial
• howto
• provisional
• waste yarn

[digit7902]

Thank you so much for sharing and showing us a video on this technique of cast-on. I have seen so many videos on how to do a "provisional cast-on" (even from professional knitters/websites) and no one came as close to you in terms of slow, steady and detailed explanations. They either go too fast, skip the part after the last cast-on and/or not showing how to remove and transfer live stitches to needle.

Thank you once again!

[Kriswilli]

Thanks for explaining the missing 1/2 stitch at the end of this cast on. I have been going crazy trying to figure that out!

[ktveggiesaurus]

This was so helpful. I'm starting to knit a stocking for the first time and had NO idea what the pattern was talking about when it described this. Thank you!