Best Stretchy Cast on Ever, continued...

Here are the still photos that I promised. If you are on dialup, like I am, maybe these photos would be more useful than the video. Right click on the pictures, save them to your computer, and then, you can click through them quickly and it's almost as good as the video. Really! It is!

This tutorial, and the video below, presumes that you are familiar with the "long tail cast on." If you aren't, then google it, or pick up any knitting book in the land, and learn it. The Long Tail Cast On is the workhorse of cast ons in the knitting universe. If you don't know it, then learn it! Now!

These pictures begin with me casting on stitch number 3. The first cast on stitch has no mate on the blue needle. The wooden needle is the one which will be the "knitting" needle, and the blue one will be removed before knitting commences.

I hope these pictures make sense. I tell you what - I'm learning SO much with this knitting hobby of mine, lol. I've learned how to blog, how to upload pictures, how to make videos and put them onto the internet, and now, I've learned how to draw on top of my photos (Photodraw - it came with my computer). Who knew! This knitting thing is realy broadening, lol.

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Added March 21, 2008 - I described a cast OFF which exactly matches this cast ON - read about it here, Stretchy Cast Off Try it and see what you think.