Lesson 2: The Basics
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Use the videos in the previous section and practice these cast on techniques.
e-Wrap Cast On (with Waste Yarn)
- Set carriage for plain knitting.
- Put 20–30 needles into work.
- Using scrap yarn similar in weight to your garment yarn, e-wrap cast on.
- Knit a few rows with scrap yarn. End on the left.
- Knit 1 row with ravel cord.
- Carriage on the right.
- Starting on the left, with the garment yarn, e-wrap cast on over all the needles (over the ravel cord stitches).
- Thread your carriage.
- Continue knitting.
- Drop the knitting from the machine.
Chain Cast On (with Waste Yarn)
- Cast on with waste yarn and ravel cord.
- Starting on the left, follow the video.
- Form a slip knot and place it on your latch tool.
- Insert the tool between the first and second needle.
- Catch the working yarn in the hook of the tool.
- Pull the strand through the slip knot, forming a new loop.
- Keeping the loop in the hook of the tool, position the tool between the next two needles.
- Reach up and hook the working yarn again, pulling it through the loop on the hook (this forms a chain).
- Continue to chain across all the needles.
- Knit for a few inches.
- Drop the work from the machine.