I pinned the slip knot down and pulled the rest of the stitches apart. Then, I pulled the stitches off the needle, leaving the slip knot in place. I cut the tail and ball yarns right after the last cast on stitch. The stitches are cast on with approximately the same amount of tension and space between the needles. The needles are 3 mm (US 2), 4 mm (US 6), 6 mm (US 10) and 10 mm (US 15). In the photo to the right, I have cast on 11 stitches onto e ach of 4 needles. The amount of yarn that is used for the stitches sitting on the needle changes much more dramatically with changes in needle size.
Regardless of needle size, the amount of yarn that is used to create the wraps underneath the needle remains relatively consistent. The yarn thickness, not the needle size determines how much of a tail you need. The yarn that goes over your index finger is used at a faster rate than the yarn that is over the thumb unless you are casting on using both knits and purls. Where length is estimated in the above methods, it is assumed that you will hold the tail of the yarn over your thumb (whether you are using the continental method (slingshot) or English style) when casting on. This may not be the case when using really tiny needles, but for me, it is true even on 2 mm (US #0) needles. It is important to note that the yarn that is over the thumb and wraps around each stitch underneath the needle uses less yarn than the strand of yarn on the index finger and wraps around the needle. It is not always easy or convenient to do this.
This leaves you with two extra ends of yarn to weave in.
#Long tail cast on plus
Your tail should be 10 inches (25 cm) X 3, or 30 inches (75 cm) plus a tail for weaving in. If you need to cast on 50 stitches, divide 50 by 5 and you are aiming for a width of 10 inches (25 cm). If the gauge is 20 sts per 4 inches (10 cm) that translates to 5 sts per inch (or 2.5 cm). You can look at the schematic or calculate how wide it should be by dividing the gauge per inch (or 2.5 cm) by the number of stitches cast on. Make your tail 3 times as long as the cast on edge is wide plus the weaving in tail.This is very haphazard and inaccurate unless you know beforehand approximately how much yarn you need, for example, if you regularly make socks with fingering weight yarn and you know that one arm’s length of yarn is about what you need. Just pull out an amount of yarn you think will suffice and start.There are several approaches to estimating this length of yarn: If you have too much, you will waste yarn and either have to cut off the excess or you will have to deal with an unnecessarily long tail that may get in the way. If you don’t have enough, you will run out of yarn before you finish the cast on. You need to estimate the amount of yarn that you leave before making your slip knot. hard to estimate the length of yarn to leave for your long tailĪs the name implies, you need to leave a long tail, plus a tail that you will weave in at the end.Some people don’t like it because they find that it is:
very versatile, you can use it for almost any projectĭisadvantages (these are easily resolved and are discussed below).The long tail cast on is probably the most commonly used cast on, at least among Western knitters.
This cast on is also known as continental, double, two-tailed, knit half-hitch, German, slingshot, finger, Y, two strand, one needle, single needle. Continue to do that for all the stitches you need to cast on. With the right needle go into the loop on the thumb and pick up the strand on the index finger. Grasp both strands of yarn with the rest of your fingers. Put your finger and thumb in between the two strands making sure that your thumb holds the tail stand.
#Long tail cast on how to
First is a very quick refresher for those who already know how to do it, followed by an in-depth discussion of how to do the long tail cast on effectively. This video shows how to do the long tail cast on.
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