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Welcome back to GoodKnit Kisses, I'm your host Kristen and we are in our loom
knitting cast on series.
Let's get started.
Today we're going to make the
long tail cast-on.
You can use this cast-on
as the standard which we'll do first,
and we'll also do a ribbing type of cast-on
but with the long tail.
It's very versatile and flexible and has a very
nice neat clean edge.
Okay, so we're going
to have our knitting tool, we're going to
put that down.
Take our working strand
and we're going to measure out--I'm going
to have my beginning in my end here
and we're going to measure out three times
the length of the pegs that we need.
If this was in-the-round then we would go
all the way around.
I'm going to go one,
two, three.
Okay that's three times the length.
If you want to give it a little extra, that's okay too.
Go ahead and make a
slipknot right in the middle of that,
and place it on your beginning peg.
Okay,
now you're going to want to keep up with
what is your long tail
and what is your
working yarn.
Okay, so your working yarn
is going to actually have the long tail
in front and the working yarn coming
from the back.
Okay so here's my working [yarn]
it's going to be up here this is the
working yarn and this is the tail.
I'm going to take our tail and this
represents the tail here, we're going to
go ahead and wrap around the stitch here.
E- wrap that.
Hold the tail keep it snug,
knit over. Okay, put this down. Take our
long tail and we're going to make an
e-wrap, here.
And now, we're going to take--so I'm
holding my e-wrap--now we're going to
take the working yarn and go around like
a u-knit stitch. Like that, nice and
loose--you don't need to be tight--but I
am pulling tight on this one.
And we want
to adjust that.
Okay, here we go.
And we're going to knit over.
So what we're
knitting over, right here, this is the
long tail.
Alright, so now we're going to e-wrap
the next one, in the long tail and
we're going to u-wrap with the working strand.
Knit over.
E-wrap with the tail,
u-wrap,
with a working [yarn]. Knit over.
Now if you wanted to,
you could go ahead and pre-wrap these,
if that makes it easier on you.
It makes you--kind of reminds you where you are.
But you have to keep switching your hands like this.
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Okay, so I'm going to continue on until I get to the end.
Now, like I said, if you want to go ahead
and wrap these you can.
It makes a cleaner edge if you do it one at a time,
but you could wrap these
down here, go ahead and slide this down to the bottom.
You can pre-wrap them,
and to get this one to stay just do an extra one
that you're not going to need that we
can pull off.
Go ahead and double e-wrap that.
Okay, so this one is one I'm
going to actually pull off later.
Okay, now I'm going to go back here and I
freed up my hand so if you have a
problem with needing to do use one hand
at a time then this would be the way you
need to do it. Go ahead and make a u-wrap,
which is going around the front
making a "U"--this is one end of the "U"
this is the other end-- knitting it over
It's a little tight.
Knit this one over.
Well pre-wrapping was a little tight, but--
we're going to do this.
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So you get the idea. So we've gotten all
these stitches here we're going to do.
And I want to show you how to do the
ribbing after this.
Okay, second to last one,
and the last one is this one that I've marked.
Okay, we're going to pull off this stitch that I had done to hold it.
So we've got this long tail here, Okay.
So this tail is actually locked in now.
After you start doing this next row here,
okay, so say we're going to knit this first stitch.
We come along,
after we've gotten our swatch or knitting--whatever you're making--
several rows in you could
go ahead and trim this.
You can weave it
in just a couple of stitches, you don't
really have to do much with it because,
like I said, it's all down here so these
are these are good to go your tail's not
going to be coming undone.
So that is that on there and so now we are going to
do the ribbing.
Pause your video and we'll meet back up.
Okay, we're going to do the long tail cast on for ribbing.
I'm going to do a two by two--meaning I've got two knits and two purls.
Two knits, two purls.
So we're going to measure three times the length of the loom or
the amount of pegs that we need,
and you can give it a little bit extra.
Make your slipknot.
Put the slipknot on your first peg.
Have your working strand in one hand,
and your tail in the other,
and go ahead and wrap with your working yarn, here,
and e-wrap on this knit stitch, okay.
And now, we're going to e-wrap the next
stitch and this stitch right here, is
telling me that I want this to be an
e-wrap or a knit. I'm actually going to make this
a u-wrap, here, for a knit stitch, okay.
Now I'm going to take my tail and these are
going to be a purl, I'm still going to e-wrap
the bottom, okay. And I'm going to go
ahead and just do these two together.
I'm going to take take my working strand and I'm going to
come and put it on the bottom, just like a purl.
And I want to keep this a little snug and hold on to it.
So I'm going to show you, and put my working strand over here
so I can-- I'm sorry-- my tail over here,
so l can snug it up a little bit
and have control. So now I'm going to do
my purl. I'm going to scoop it up from
the bottom, pull that through the loop
take it off the loom, replace that loop,
snug that up, and now we do it again on this next one.
Pull it up, take that new loop off--
or the old loop off, put the new loop on and snug that up.
And now these two have been casted on in a purl.
Now we're on the next set of stitches.
I'm going to e-wrap these, again.
All the working tail--I'm sorry--the long tail is
going to be an e-wrap,
and then you can
do your u-wrap
for the top.
Put this knit stitch here.
And remember, the one coming from the left here, is my working yarn,
the ball is attached to it,
and knit that off.
Let's do a purl again.
We're going to go ahead and e-wrap both of of these,
come over here, just to hold my yarn down for me.
And now, bring working strand between these two pegs
and I'm going to purl this peg here,
Okay,
Alright. Purl those,
e-wrap these two,
u-wrap the front,
knit off.
Knit off.
E-wrap the purls.
And now we're going to purl them.
And one other technique you can do to make it faster
is pull both the loops up.
And then you can go ahead and do that,
pull that off, snug that up,
and now you're ready to pull off the
second one--whoops-and once you get the
rhythm of it you'll see that, so we'll do
it one more time so you can see that little shortcut.
Go ahead and wrap these around,
get these knits set up here.
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Okay, so now we're ready for our purls.
Wrap those around, they can stay up top
because you're going to put a purl in.
Okay, we're going to pre-purl. We're going to pre-loop these.
There's one loop--
I want to start that over--I pulled it too hard.
Okay.
Pre-loop this.
One...
and two.
pull this loop off, and then you can take
this other one and snug it up,
and I think the reason why that it came off
for me that easily is because I didn't
take my this tail over here I didn't
take it and put it far enough away,
I had pulled it farther away this way before.
So we're almost done with this row.
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Shhh. don't tell anybody I split that. [Laughs].
Okay. Alright, so we are done.
And then this long tail is just going to get
woven in and snipped off you don't need
but a few stitches to do that with.
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Bye-bye.
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