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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.
And today we're going to talk about samples and knitting
swatches
but specifically making swatches for your cast ons
and I recommend that you
try all the cast ons and make these little bitty swatches here
and to show
what they look like
and to get the experience of how to do them. so that
when you run into them in a pattern
you will have some experience.
What you can
do is make a note card,
now this is just something simple I did just for now, but
I'm actually gonna file this better.
Now you can make,
this is just a little post-it sticky that goes on here
and you can put a little note card inside,
this is just a name tag holder, but you can
put like the notes inside here
and directions on how you did it.
Also what loom that was used
and what yarn was used, because you could try
different yarn and different looms
and get different things and just attach
them here and I just simply tied them on
so that I can tell what they were. And
you could even try different bind offs
and see which ones look best with it and
then write that down.
So I'm going to show you a couple of them, and if you're
looking from a desktop computer
then I'm going to put links on top of
the video so that you can click on the swatch of the sample that we're looking
at and you'll be able to go to that video and refer to and how to do that.
Some of these videos are sort of a two-in-one
and so you'll be able to see
that.
Ok, so I'm going to start with and what a lot of people know is to
be the first thing that we do, which is e-wrap and
this is an e-wrap. It's very
loose,
it's got this edge on it, in fact I have a video on how to fix this
edge and make it look like the basic bind off edge and you just take a
crochet hook and kind of hook through these loose strands and then it sort of
looks like this, but if you don't do anything to it, it looks like this,
ok, so click on that and go to that video.
Ok, the next one is if we double e- wrapped it on, so say we put our
slip knot and on and wrapped it, knitted over and then kept going and double
e-wrapped each peg individually then you get this look, which is a little bit
tighter , and you have your slip knot here, ok.
The alternate version for that is to use the yarn over cast on the only
difference is when you put your slip knot on and you go to the
next step which is to double e-wrap the next peg, yarn over on the next peg,
it basically skips the step of knitting, putting an e-wrap on your slip knot, so
actually I think that the double e-wrap is a better one, because it's got an extra
stitch in here so this kind of rides up a little bit.
These basically are the same thing,
and I'm sorry these are rolling, I decided to
make them all stockinette,
and these haven't been blocked, but I wanted
you to see how smooth the regular stitches are.
These are all a u-knit stitch,
if you're wondering what this is.
So they have the uniform classic knit stitch.
They're not [an] e-wrap and so there
I'm going to have that classic "V" to them.
So this is the yarn over cast on, click on that,
and then this is the double e-wrap
and they're both in the same video.
And then the next one is, this is actually
pretty simple,
maybe new to you, but it's called the half-hitch cast on and it's
actually pretty simple and it's something that you could teach kids how
to do. It looks complicated at first,
but click on that for the video and
you'll see I just use this method to kind of twist it on with your finger
first, and then put it on,
but it does a similar thing like the e-wrap. It has
these big loose edges on it.
You know it has a stretchy edge to it ,
so check that one out.
And then we have a
thing that requires a crochet hook
and some people call this crochet cast on
but it's really called the chain cast on
and I think I erroneously called
it that a couple years ago
so it's supposed to have like this chain edge
onto it, and it looks nice on hats and if you're going to do a
garter ridge or something like that
it actually looks pretty good.
This is just a stockinette so it's popping up
but if you notice the end of it
is where this chain is and this requires a
crochet hook to do this
unless you've got a large gauge loom
and bulky
yarn and then you can use your fingers.
So check that out, that's the chain cast on.
The next one that requires a crochet hook is the crochet cast on.
And this one has a little bit lengthier steps on it.
you have to...
it's a little bit trickier to do
but you can still do it looks nice
and it has this crocheted edge
and it kind of jumps up on the top part and I
had a little bit of a scalloped to it
I don't really like it. (laughes)
I don't really like it that much
but some of them
require crochet cast on
it depends upon the pattern
but this is I'm not
really liking it for this particular thing,
but all these cast ons serve
different purposes and the designer picked it for a reason so I would
suggest knitting up a swatch of it before moving on in your project and see if you
like that.
So, click on that for the crochet cast on
And there is a cast on called the cable
cast on and that there are written instructions to use the cable cast on, it
was originally made by am Becky Hansen, I haven't seen any videos prior
to me making one,
that I'm going to show you and here in a minute, but what this does is it actually
the cable cast on I think she meant to say that it makes a cable look on the
front. This is kind of a braided cable
I'm showing two different ones because one is casting on and going from this
direction and then one is going from the opposite direction and so all it does is
it changes how these stitches lay. So, technically though, if you look at a
needle cast on, I made this one, it has this orange sticker on it.
This one is actually when you use real needles and you do a technical needle
cast on, cable cast on,
then it looks like this is very nice clean edge and Becky's has that edge
right along here, but it's got this extra thing on top so if you want this extra
decorative edge
you could use that, it's a decorative cable cast on. Now for a true cable cast
on, this is actually very new.
Charity Windham worked on this, I helped her a
little bit, but this is mainly her,
and she has a true cable cast on, you do not
need a crochet hook for it --it's awesome.
I really like it
and it lays a nice and flat, now again, this is a stockinette so
it's kind of popping up on me right now,
but it lays flat and it is like a true
cable cast-on on needles. So it looks very nice. So, click on that for the video there.
And then we have a knit cast on,
which is this one, and we'll have a video
for that.
Click on that,
and then if you turn it over,
it looks the same but when you
do the purl cast on, it makes it to where,
let's say you want to start
with a (reverse) stockinette of purls,
then it will make it face the other way.
In fact, this sample I actually knit
starting with the purl.
I didn't need to get a sample for
the regular knit and it turned
out like this.
So it's the same thing,
and in fact I did a purl bind off on this one, and see how
it matches the purls on this side,
and then it actually became the basic bind off
on this other side,
which is a knit bind off.
So you can see how I'm
trying to get it closer to cable
so click on it if you want to do the knit..um...
I'm sorry, I'm trying to get it closer to the needle versions,
so click on here for knit (cast on)
and there should be a spot to click on for purl (cast on).
Okay,
and then we have the long tail cast on.
Now the long tail cast on is called
for in other patterns that I've seen,
and it looks really nice
it's very similar in finish to a cable cast on.
See that?
And it has a long tail that you have put on
and you wrap and then you knit on the
next row so, anyway,
click on that video you'll see.
If you flip flop your
directions and you
e-wrap the wrong thing for...
you basically e-wrap the tail on first
and then knit over the
working strand, but if you do the opposite
and you accidentally e-wrap on
the working strand and knit over on the tail,
it doesn't really matter because I did the opposite on both of these just to
test out and see. So if you're afraid because you messed up
it's okay. So click on here for a long tail cast on.
Alright, and then we have the next one which is,
I'm sorry, let me flip this over,
I know this is the picot,
it's sitting back here for a reason.
Then we also have,
with the crochet hook,
the scallop cast on.
By the way long tail
doesn't require a crochet hook.
The scallop does,
and this one really shows--
its kind like having that the
the decorative cable cast on
it has all this extra up top and see it has these
little eyelets around here
so it serves a purpose and you know it's it's a little
more decorative in nature,
a little more bulky,
so if you're wanting something cleaner
then don't choose this
one, but if you want to do like a nice decorative edging then
then go for it.
So, and then it has a a bit of a stretch to it, too.
So, that's the scallop cast on.
And then we have the diamond lace or figure 8 cast on.
Now, this matches the diamond lace stitch.
Now I'm using a bulky yarn, so forget this,
but basically this what the figure 8 looks like,
in a flat panel, not the double knit.
Ok? And all these cast ons are obviously for flat panels.
I'm not doing any double knit in this series here.
But, this is what it looks like,
kind of looks like a mock crochet a little bit,
and then we've got --this
was developed by Charity-- is the cast on, Charity Windham, basically she
wanted to cast on that matched it.
And so it looks like this, and actually it looks really nice, it lays really flat
even with a stockinette. This one, I haven't done anything to it
and it's laying pretty flat so i'm kind of impressed with it. But you might try
your own bigger sample and see, but see how it works really well with this cast
on -- with this figure 8 -- in this little panel-- and then I attempted a bind off to
coordinate with that. So click on that for the diamond lace or figure 8 cast on.
And then we have the adjustable cast on.
Now, this is like the drawstring,
it's basically what it is, and when you cast on and turn around
this would be the cast on edge, and when you get it off the loom,
it looks like that and then when you're ready, you just pull it as much as you
want to adjust. See that? Now, there are limited uses for this, but I encourage
you to your imagination.
What about an ear for a character hat?
What about a sleeve that you want to do some shaping to that you're not really
sure how to sort of invent? Or maybe just a sleeve that needs to stand on its own so
this has a lot of curving. But look, doesn't this look like a baby bonnet?
So, think about those kinds of things. You could do a baby bonnet and
then do a picot bind off, you know.
So, think about that. Here are some little baby picots that I've made, and so that
might look really cute. And so the adjustable cast on would be the one that
you would want to check out for that.
So, click on that link,
and the last one that we have here, I'm showing actually a
bind off as well.
This is the cast on edge.
This is a new one,
it's not new to the knitting world, but it is
to loom knitting.
This closely resembles a knit cast on for picots.
I had done, last year,
I'd done a bind off for picots
to make it look more like needles,
there are some other picots by other people
but these are truer to
a needle bind off for picots,
and now we have a matching cast on.
The backs are pretty much they're identical
the front, the only difference is, I have
a couple of extra little chains here and
then these don't.
Charity Windham and I both
worked on this to get them the
same, so Charity did a lot of work on this and
anyway, I just want to give her credit for that.
And so I hope that all of these
have helped you,
I enjoyed working on it.
It's been a lot of work, but if there
are new videos that come out,
we'll certainly add them to the list.
This is just what I have at the time of recording.
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