- [Kristen] In today's video we are casting on,
in-the-round on the X Loom.
(upbeat music)
Welcome to GoodKnit Kisses,
we're all about helping you stitch your love
and love your stitches.
Well the unique thing about the X Loom is
that you can do all kinds of cool shapes
and projects on here.
And when you make a hat, you can divide it up
and make this really cool, reduced crown
and I'm gonna do that on here.
But we're just gonna cast on today,
the next video we'll be making the stitch
and then we'll have another video covering the decrease.
Today I'm just working on how to do a cast on.
So the cast on in-the-round here is going
to be an even number of stitches.
And we're actually gonna make it divisible by eight
because in this particular loom it works really well divided
by eight because as you see we have four legs,
one, two, three, four.
Scarlett, who helped develop this for CinDwood,
calls them prongs, these parts are the prongs
and then you can see there are two sides to each prong.
Okay, so that means I have one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight so whatever number I have, if I divide it
by eight then I know I'm gonna be able
to get this hat over here with this really easy division.
So if I take 56 which is the number I know I already want
and divide it by eight I get seven.
So watch how I count this out.
I'm going to move my slider here
by loosening this little wingnut.
This under here, you can see it right there easily
and I want to count and see the number seven.
So I'm gonna start at the first peg
and count one, two, three, four, five, six, seven
so I'm gonna move my slider to the seventh peg.
And then I start my counting of seven again, okay?
And notice this first one is kind of the middle point
of this bend right here
so I want to count just up until this next one
and watch what happens.
So I've got seven ends here
so we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
When I turn that you can see
that it's just before this midpoint.
So we know that if I put my slider this way on all four
of these prongs I'm gonna have the number that I need
which is 56 for this hat
and the smaller hat in here is going to be actually 48
so if you're curious.
So we're gonna cast on this next segment, you're going
to grab your X Loom put it into the position
of however many pegs that you wanna put in and we'll begin.
Be sure and get your yarn and your hook
and this hook is gonna be one
that you can put in between the pegs
or you can use your fingers to cast on.
We're going to do a chain cast on today.
To cast on, we're just going to create a slipknot
and go ahead and place that right on our crochet hook.
If you need to know how to make a slipknot the way I did,
I just wrap it around my finger twice,
take the back loop over the front loop
and do it one more time up and over the tip of my finger
and that creates a little loop.
And then I just place it right on my hook
and we're gonna put it right on this loom here.
Now I want to go in this direction here.
I'll have a video of flipping it in the opposite direction
but this is the way I'm gonna go right now.
And I want to take the yarn
that's in this hand over here and it's the working yarn
and it's gonna go in front of the peg
and whatever is on the hook is going to go in the back.
You can also do this with your fingers
so I'm going to take this yarn and yarn over
and we're gonna pull it through this loop
that's on my hook, okay?
Just like that.
All right, so then the next one we're gonna put the yarn,
in front of the peg and we're going to yarn over
and pull it right through that loop here.
So from this direction it's a little bit harder to see
and I understand that so I'm gonna show you
what it looks like if we do it with our fingers.
Okay, so I'm gonna move this and what I do is I'm starting
with my loop and I can put it in the front here like this.
And I can take my yarn and push it through that loop
and pull it, okay?
And then put the loop to the back,
pull it to the front, grab my yarn, my working yarn,
push it through and pull it.
Same thing, put it to the back,
take my yarn, pull it through, just like that.
And so what happens on the inside or the back you can see
that I have two loops coming on the back here
and makes this nice chain effect.
Now, the danger with pulling it from the front
to me is that these loops can be really loopy,
they can be kind of big
and so that's why I prefer using the crochet hook.
So I'm gonna show you what it looks like from the back.
So I am showing you a little bit more in this video,
than you may have seen before but I just wanna give you
what I think are the best practices for doing this.
So lemme start again, make a slip not, okay?
And then put that on my hook
and I'm gonna leave it about this size.
I'm going to leave a nice loop
that's gonna be easy to manage
and it's gonna be about the same size
that I want over here, just for this first one.
All right, so I'm gonna put my yarn between my last peg
and my first peg, make sure it's going in front
of the first peg, we're gonna yarn over
and then pull through a loop, pull right through
that chain in the back there.
You can see it nicely in the back.
Okay, so or on the inside, then we're gonna go
to the next one and see this chain developing here.
We're gonna yarn over on the second peg and pull
through our stitch here and then move on to the next one.
Continue by yarning over and pulling through, okay?
Now you can see
that my chains are a good manageable size, okay?
So we're just gonna keep going
and yarning over and pulling through all of them.
When we get down to this end, we are gonna have
to turn our work.
Okay, I'm gonna tighten that up, we're gonna go on
to the next one, pull through and go on to the next one
and pull through
and I kinda tighten that up a little bit
and then turn and continue going.
Alright, so as you go you're gonna notice,
this is a little bit tighter here.
That's okay, just keep going and that's exactly
what I did on this one so it all worked out really well.
These stitches are still nice and even
and so you're gonna keep going all the way around,
until you get to the end here
and I'm gonna show you a new little hack
that I've figured out
how to make it look like there's a continuous chain here.
So it's an extra little step
that you may not have done in the round before.
All right, pause your video and I'll see you in a minute.
Okay, so I'm down to the end
and I've got chain cast on everywhere
and I want to connect from the last peg to the first peg.
Now use two, I would recommend just going ahead
and take this extra loop and putting it on the first peg
and knitting it over and continuing.
But it doesn't actually continue
to get a chain between these two
and so you have chains between everything else
so I'd like to get that solved, right?
So we're gonna go around peg one one more time
and just go ahead and do it like you normally would.
You can do it from the back too,
I'm just doing it from the front today
and then now I'm just gonna put this,
extra loop right on top, okay?
So that's the last loop and it's going on peg two
but don't worry about that, it's still gonna be fine.
So I'm going to take my yarn
and kinda put it to the back there.
I'm gonna knit over peg one
and then we can actually start working peg one.
Now you notice I actually I'm not working peg two just yet
and that's okay, I want this peg one
to kinda sit lower than this next one.
So what I wanna do is start working on my first,
my stitch pattern, my very first stitch
and we will move on from here to the next video
and you can get more information on
what you would do next for the Boyfriend Hat
which is this one over here.
But whatever stitch you have, go ahead
and work the first stitch
and then when you get the second stitch,
you'll just treat these two loops as one.
So if you're going to do a knit purl, knit purl, like a one
by one ribbing, then you would just work these two out
as a purl together.
If you're gonna do a two by twos or two knits
and two purls work this
as a two over one together like that.
So that is how you chain cast on.
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Learning how to work that on this particular loom.
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