David shows you how to cast on for your knitting with the long-tail method. So grab a needle and some yarn and let’s get started!
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Hey David,
After I cast on…I either have too much or too little tail yarn…what should I do?
Thanks,
Carl
thank you! this is the first time i’ve actually understood how to do this! you totally rock
I found the difficulty was exactly how long to make the tail? It happened several times that even though I had made a fairly long tail, it was still too short and I had to cast on all over again.
Now I wrap the yarn around the needle ten times before starting and measure the length, then measure this length as many times as necessary to get the correct number of stitches andI am never caught short again.
And I always cast on on TWO needles this way it’s easier to knit the first row.
I may not be a man, but this was the only video that actually managed to teach me how to do a long tail cast on.
Thanks!
Brilliantly helpful. Thank you for a very easy to follow guide.
His talking was appropriate in trying to demonstrate that there are many ways to cast on. I have had difficulty, myself. I like his way.
Very helpful. Thanks so much for sharing:-)
thankyou……thankyou …..thankyou I can finally do it, after viewing all other videos this one was so easy to follow. Looks good to.
Ahhh ok, that makes since now. I learn a weird way of doing the long tail cast on, and it left the stitches all loose and weird when I started my new row. Thanks for the thorough tutorial
And kudos to you and other men who knit!
Great video. I have tried to learn this a bunch of times to no avail. I wasn’t bringing the thumb look back over the finger loop on the needle. LOL. Thanks for helping me figure this out.
The easiest way to deal with the remaining tail from a long tail cast on is to work it into the first stitches of your next row, then cut it off.
Once you turn your needles around to begin the row after your cast on row, simply hold both strands of yarn together, knit or perl as normal, only wrap both strands around your right needle instead of just the working yarn. Pull both through, let the loop fall off the left needle, and repeat two more times. Then abandon the tail and continue
stop talking, and get to the demo. cut the first 1:10.
Deathmonkey: If you were a man you wouldn’t talk.
If you were a man you wouldn’t knit
thanks so much for making this so easy!
Your video is great!! Thanks for making it easy!
another male who knits here…Been knitting for years.
A really good tip I learned for this cast-on, was to use a separate skein/ball for each ‘end’ of the cast-on. Tie the two together at the slip knot; after you finish casting-on, simply cut off one of the skeins/ball and proceed as usual. With this tip you don’t have to worry about running out of tail.
Hi Nadia–you cut what’s left of the tail down to about 5 or 6 inches and then weave it into the work. My two comments directly above yours give some tips on how to do this. Good luck!
This video is so helpful! Thanks so much! I cast on 7 different times with different videos until I found this one which is good enough quality that I can actually see what I am supposed to do!
Only one question, what do I do with the rest of the tail once I start knitting?
Thanks so much!
Nadia
The second approach I use, for garter stitch and, with a slight variation, for stockinette–is to again bring the yarn to the backside but this time to pull it up a few rows through the loops in the back, then weave it up and down through one row of loops and back through the loops on the row below, and then snip the end. Don’t pull the tail tight. If you do this at the right tension, the tail will be almost unnoticeable.
There are other ways out there–just google ‘weaving in yarn tails’.
No, though I have to admit that would be a good one to do.
I have two approaches to weaving in tails. If the tail is attached to some ribbing–I move the tail to the backside of the work (if there isn’t a backside, don’t worry) and then, with a tapestry needle, I pull the yarn up through one column of stitches on the nearest rib, then pull it down through the other column and snip it. (This generally means moving the tip of the needle in a spirally fashion to get it through the columns.)
Thanks for this information, just discovered your videos. They are easy to follow and your instructions make it easy to follow. Do you have anything on weaving in the tails?
The one situation where you definitely have to add extra length to the tail is when your yarn is bulky or unevenly spun. Heavier weight yarn and larger sized stitches tend to eat up more of the tail as you cast on. In that situation, I would try four times the width of the item.
And always remember you want to have at least five inches, and preferably six, left over so your tail can be woven in. It is obnoxious to try to weave in a tail that is three inches long.
The general rule is approximately three times the width of what you are knitting. So, for example, a scarf six inches wide should start with a long tail of about 18 inches. Another popular calculation is one inch for every stitch. I would pick whichever is longest and use that. Personally, I almost always add an extra 8 to every long tail because I’m neurotic
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