I’ve been knitting for a while and have never heard of this. Your video was very helpful. Sometimes when you don’t understand the pattern and keep going because you know it’ll make sense in the end, it’s a good ahh haaa moment !!! Thank you
Hi Heidi. Great to see you again! I always love your videos and this one is no exception. Great tutorial on the provisional cast on. Thanks for sharing!😊💗
Thank you! I have done this cast on many times but for the life of me I had forgotten how to start…..ugh. Your video saved me! Thank you! Love that you knit continental, not many videos out there with continental style. 😊
Thanks for a great video :) My project uses fingering weight yarn. Does it matter if I use thicker yarn for the provisional cast on to make it a bit easier to work with, and then switch to smaller needles when I start using the working yarn?
Excellent question! You absolutely can do this. However, a potentially easier trick I'd suggest in addition to using a larger needle for the cast on would be using a cotton or acrylic yarn. If you're knitting with wool, for example, it can act kind of like velcro, sticking to itself and potentially making the provisional cast on process harder. You mentioned you're using fingering weight yarn, and not everyone has fingering weight cotton or acrylic laying around. Another tip can be to use dental floss instead of yarn for the provisional cast on stitches. It sounds funny, but I'm serious! You can also use dental floss when placing lifelines in knitting. (This works because dental floss won't catch on your yarn like yarn catches on itself.) Come to think of it, this might be a good a topic for a future video... 😆 Thanks for the inspiration!
@@handsoccupied Thanks for replying so quickly :) As it turns out, I did, by chance, choose a slightly heavier weight synthetic yarn for the provisional cast on but I wouldn't have thought about the stickiness of wool on wool. I LOVE the idea of using dental floss for life lines and will also try it next time I do provisional cast on. I found this method of provisional cast on so much easier than picking up stitches from a crochet chain.
i did this cast on as the beggining of my proyect, and now i want to remove the scrap yarn but i want to leave the stitches secure because it is the beggining of my proyect, is there a way to do that? i don't want to unravel everything
If I'm understanding your question correctly (let me know if I'm not), are you wanting to know what to do when you reach the end of your project? If so, I have a video here on joining the ends of a provisionally cast on knitting project that could be helpful: th-cam.com/video/wIZUHdB7RhM/w-d-xo.html
What is provisional good for? Learning to knit on TH-cam has been quite the hellish struggle because nobody identifies what type of knitting they're doing. I thought all knitting I saw was just knitting and that everybody knitted that way and all the different ways of getting around and doing a stitch was necessary because of whatever Stitch they were doing. Word wise, that is correct but, please say you can see my confusion. After several hundred or maybe a thousand videos, somebody actually identified what type of knitting they were doing and I found out there were different kinds. If you put how to knit on a search line, you're going to get at least three different ways, not that it's in the title or that the doer tells you which when they're doing. Unlike many English speakers, I do not shy away from foreign language titles. I don't read patterns because I can't always make sense of what they're telling me to do I don't have enough practical experience to know what I should do for what is normally done after the last Stitch made. Many times there is just an understanding how to get to this next new Stitch or next row I never had anyone to show me. You can watch you can watch many videos and still not know how... even when ya ask, they don't respond. And yes, I have gone through the trouble to very succinctly translate English to Russian, or Mandarin, Cantonese or Turkish. No answers.
Hi @kaycee . i will try to tell you what provisional cast on is good for - but its hard without ability to add attachements to show images: Provisional cast on stitches are used in knitting for projects where you want to be able to work in both directions from the cast on edge. Here are the main purposes and benefits of using a provisional cast on: Seamless joining: It allows you to join two pieces of knitting seamlessly, like when creating a folded hem or attaching an edging. Double-sided work: It's useful for items that need to be identical on both sides, such as some scarves or shawls. Easy unraveling: The stitches can be easily unraveled to expose live stitches, which can then be worked in the opposite direction. Toe-up socks: In sock knitting, it's often used to start toe-up socks, allowing for adjustments to the toe shape. Sleeve adjustments: When knitting sweaters, it can be used to start sleeves, allowing for length adjustments later. I personally have used this video for kitting a hat that has folded rib. i started wiht the privisional stich, knitted 10 cm rib, folder th erib in half, unravelled the provisional stiches to connect the folded edge and continue jnutting the upper part of the hat in my case, provisional stich helped not get a THICK edge, which i woul dhave had if i cast on tradionally, but have free stices that i knit to gether with the front stiches and continue knitting. sorry if this is hard to understand wihtout images, but. hope it helps a bit
FINALLY! a tutorial that shows what you do AFTER so you can understand why your doing it.. not just how!
Thank you for that I might have switched the channel
I’ve been knitting for a while and have never heard of this. Your video was very helpful. Sometimes when you don’t understand the pattern and keep going because you know it’ll make sense in the end, it’s a good ahh haaa moment !!! Thank you
This is the most helpful tutorial I’ve found thank you!
Hi Heidi. Great to see you again! I always love your videos and this one is no exception. Great tutorial on the provisional cast on. Thanks for sharing!😊💗
Thanks so much, Thea! 🙏🏻❤️
You’re very welcome! I hope to see more of your great tutorials!💕
Thank you! I have done this cast on many times but for the life of me I had forgotten how to start…..ugh. Your video saved me! Thank you! Love that you knit continental, not many videos out there with continental style. 😊
Thank you! This was really helpful. So clear! I’m really grateful. I’m looking forward to seeing how you connect the two live stitches!❤
Here you go! 😊 How to join 2 sets of live stitches with kitchener stitch (aka grafting):
th-cam.com/video/wIZUHdB7RhM/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Thank you Heidi I have wanted to knit a scarf which is a tube using my leftover small balls of yarn I have not tried a provisional cast on Excellent♡
This cast on should work well for that! 🙌🏻
I love this cast on…it basically creates the stitches that you pick up from the back loops of a crochet chain!
Yep! and the "unzipping" at the end is so satisfying.
Great video and explanation!
Thank you!
Many thanks! Just what I needed.
Really excellent demonstration of this method; however, the music is distracting and truly unnecessary, imo. Thanks!
That is helpful feedback - thank you for being polite. I truly appreciate it. :)
fantastic
Thanks for a great video :) My project uses fingering weight yarn. Does it matter if I use thicker yarn for the provisional cast on to make it a bit easier to work with, and then switch to smaller needles when I start using the working yarn?
Excellent question! You absolutely can do this. However, a potentially easier trick I'd suggest in addition to using a larger needle for the cast on would be using a cotton or acrylic yarn. If you're knitting with wool, for example, it can act kind of like velcro, sticking to itself and potentially making the provisional cast on process harder.
You mentioned you're using fingering weight yarn, and not everyone has fingering weight cotton or acrylic laying around. Another tip can be to use dental floss instead of yarn for the provisional cast on stitches. It sounds funny, but I'm serious! You can also use dental floss when placing lifelines in knitting. (This works because dental floss won't catch on your yarn like yarn catches on itself.)
Come to think of it, this might be a good a topic for a future video... 😆 Thanks for the inspiration!
@@handsoccupied Thanks for replying so quickly :) As it turns out, I did, by chance, choose a slightly heavier weight synthetic yarn for the provisional cast on but I wouldn't have thought about the stickiness of wool on wool. I LOVE the idea of using dental floss for life lines and will also try it next time I do provisional cast on. I found this method of provisional cast on so much easier than picking up stitches from a crochet chain.
i did this cast on as the beggining of my proyect, and now i want to remove the scrap yarn but i want to leave the stitches secure because it is the beggining of my proyect, is there a way to do that? i don't want to unravel everything
If I'm understanding your question correctly (let me know if I'm not), are you wanting to know what to do when you reach the end of your project? If so, I have a video here on joining the ends of a provisionally cast on knitting project that could be helpful: th-cam.com/video/wIZUHdB7RhM/w-d-xo.html
What is provisional good for? Learning to knit on TH-cam has been quite the hellish struggle because nobody identifies what type of knitting they're doing. I thought all knitting I saw was just knitting and that everybody knitted that way and all the different ways of getting around and doing a stitch was necessary because of whatever Stitch they were doing. Word wise, that is correct but, please say you can see my confusion.
After several hundred or maybe a thousand videos, somebody actually identified what type of knitting they were doing and I found out there were different kinds. If you put how to knit on a search line, you're going to get at least three different ways, not that it's in the title or that the doer tells you which when they're doing.
Unlike many English speakers, I do not shy away from foreign language titles. I don't read patterns because I can't always make sense of what they're telling me to do I don't have enough practical experience to know what I should do for what is normally done after the last Stitch made. Many times there is just an understanding how to get to this next new Stitch or next row I never had anyone to show me. You can watch you can watch many videos and still not know how... even when ya ask, they don't respond. And yes, I have gone through the trouble to very succinctly translate English to Russian, or Mandarin, Cantonese or Turkish. No answers.
Hi @kaycee . i will try to tell you what provisional cast on is good for - but its hard without ability to add attachements to show images: Provisional cast on stitches are used in knitting for projects where you want to be able to work in both directions from the cast on edge. Here are the main purposes and benefits of using a provisional cast on:
Seamless joining: It allows you to join two pieces of knitting seamlessly, like when creating a folded hem or attaching an edging.
Double-sided work: It's useful for items that need to be identical on both sides, such as some scarves or shawls.
Easy unraveling: The stitches can be easily unraveled to expose live stitches, which can then be worked in the opposite direction.
Toe-up socks: In sock knitting, it's often used to start toe-up socks, allowing for adjustments to the toe shape.
Sleeve adjustments: When knitting sweaters, it can be used to start sleeves, allowing for length adjustments later.
I personally have used this video for kitting a hat that has folded rib. i started wiht the privisional stich, knitted 10 cm rib, folder th erib in half, unravelled the provisional stiches to connect the folded edge and continue jnutting the upper part of the hat in my case, provisional stich helped not get a THICK edge, which i woul dhave had if i cast on tradionally, but have free stices that i knit to gether with the front stiches and continue knitting. sorry if this is hard to understand wihtout images, but. hope it helps a bit
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