My first provisional cast on
You'd think for all the years I've been knitting that I would have an arsenal of cast on and bind off methods. Wrong. Mom taught me one way--sling-shot cast on and traditional bind off--so that's what I've been doing for 30 years. (She also told me to sear chicken before making chicken soup. Can someone tell me why?)
So now I'm designing what I like to call my "Audrey Shell," which requires a dressier edge. (The Audrey Shell is a slightly fitted, boatneck tank with eyelets/bottonholes around the neck through which I'm going to run a large organza ribbon. Chic, no? The yarn: The slinky Schachenmayr Catania 100 percent cotton in black using US size 4s.)
I'm opting for a picot hem, which starts with an "open" cast on. (Ah, now I know why my Mom didn't try teaching a seven year old an "open" cast on. Yikes.) You have waste yarn tangling with working yarn and all that twisting and hoo ha, and then you have to graft the hem after knitting a picot row. I'm a little irritated by the slow start but interested in seeing how it all turns out. (Here is a nice pictoral lesson, although I used the instructions in Vogue Knitting, which doesn't offer the nice hand positioning.)
With the way the cast on looks now, I'll be glad to hide it inside the sweater! Anybody have any hints?
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