Cast On

Helen Lynch paused just a moment to voice her approval, then returned to her handiwork, which so far consisted of poking one needle into the cast-on stitches, trying to work her way into her very tight loops. ❋ Anne Canadeo (2011)

I posted a link to this column on a knitting site, cast-on, where an expat American lives in Wales and is making pumpkin pie, with sometimes limited resources. ❋ Homesick Texan (2009)

Knit the next round of live stitches into the original cast-on stitches, rather than into the working yarn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In real life, there are another two projects also cast-on, but I'm too ashamed to fully publicise the fact. ❋ Cazzab (2008)

I think the cast-on fever I have neatly sums up my attention span at the moment. ❋ Cazzab (2008)

It was to be a true confession of all my recently cast-on projects which I really mean to finish, but, well, I don't. ❋ Cazzab (2008)

Cast-on loops are about 2 cm long, and cast-on was on a thick linen ply. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

After misfiring the first cast-on start the loops grew nastily in length, I have now finished about 210 meshes and their connecting row successfully. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

Because I've grown quite fond of netting as a show-and-tell procedure as the regular readers here know already, and I want to include netting in the demonstrations at the exhibition vernissage, I have spent yesterday evening doing the cast-on for another net. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

That can be achieved either by slowly lengthening the cast-on loops so that the first normal-sized meshes don't stick out so much, or by fiddling a bit with the mesh size in the first rows. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

After the long cast-on loops, there are five rows of normal-sized mesh, then one row for doubling the number of meshes. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)

Ages ago, I had already done some analysis and counting for one of the nets, coming up with 210 loops for cast-on, doubled after about 14 rows of mesh. ❋ A Stitch In Time (2009)