Lace Cast-On
This is a more open cast on technique and is ideal when you are working a lace design or with very fine yarn that might need a little more stretch in the foundation row. It is very similar to the cable cast on, but you are working into the stitch each time rather than going between stitches. A common error is to use this cast on for all your knitting and then wonder why with stocking stitch the projects stretch and the edges look untidy.
- make a slip knot about 6`from the end of the yarn. Hold the needle with the slip knot in your left hand and the other needle in your right hand. Holding the working end of the yarn in your right hand, put the tip of the right-hand needle into the stitch on the left-hand needle.
- bring the yarn in your right hand under and around the point of the right-hand needle and pull it taut. Bring the tip of the right-hand needle, and the yarn wrapped around it, through the stitch and towards you. Pull gently until the loop is large enough to slip it over the tip of the left-hand needle. Take the right-hand needle out of the loop and pull the loop so that it fits snugly around the left-hand needle.
- put the tip of the right-hand needle into the stitch just made and repeat steps 1-3 until you have cast on the required number of stitches.