Tag: cast-ons

Long-tail cast on for tight knitters

A while back, I wrote about a method to make the bottom loopy edge of long-tail cast-on looser. I haven’t

I wrote recently about a start for a top-down triangular shawl I’d come up with, but there’s another that I’ve

Well, I tried the flip-flop cast-on with two lace swatches. The first swatch was in laceweight yarn, and I confirmed

This is still an experiment, and probably I should use it in something other than a swatch before putting it

One of the difficulties of knitting a triangle shawl with a two-stitch garter selvedge from the center of the long

I found this in my list of blog post drafts. I started writing it three years ago, when I could

Sometimes I have trouble counting the exact number of stitches in my cast-ons. Perhaps this sounds familiar to you, too?

Here are some links to interesting knitting things I’ve seen recently (if you follow me on Pinterest, you’ve probably seen

I’ve been considering multiple yarnovers some more, and also talking them over with some friends on Ravelry. (Thanks to you

In Knitting in the Nordic Tradition, Vibeke Lind describes what she calls “lace casting on”. This is a length of