Folded Picot Cast On

Hi there I'm Corrina Ferguson for the knitting circle. In this video we're going to learn how to do a fancy start for socks. The Picot Cast On such as in these lovers lane socks Way easier than it looks but super pretty. So let's get learning. So we're going to learn how to do a folded Picot Cast On this is my lover's lane sock and you can see pretty hearts going down the front at an angle so you can see the whole sock but this is our Picot Cast On so it is Cast On, we knit a bunch, we do the Picot's and then we knit the cast on together right here.

And you can kind of see that edge where it's knit together. So to make that flat and nicely knit together we're going to start this with a backwards loop Cast On and the backwards loop is the least structured it only uses one strand of yarn, which is really important because we want to keep that row where we knit everything together as flat as possible. So we're gonna start with a slip stitch and if you've not done a slip stitch, let's learn, we make I call it my little cursive see my cursive there and then I make another loop, pull that through and then you get a knot that can change size that's why we call it a Slipknot because it can slip. Now the backwards loop Cast On is even easier than a Slipknot. We make that little cursive again and you'll notice that when I make my cursive the yarn that's attached to the needle is on top.

The working yarn that's attached to my ball or my skein is on the bottom. And it's a backwards loop because we go into the back of the loop and then we snug it up. So let's see that again. Here's my little E see how it's done here. I'm trying to set that without losing it.

And then we go into the back of it. Cooperates make that backwards loop. And we just do that for as many stitches as it tells us to do in the Cast On so here's my stockinette stitch that I already have a few rows up. Here's my very loose Picot Cast On. And then you're just doing a knit two together yarn over pretty much all the way to the end of the row.

So I've already got, that kind of started. We do a knit two together and then we do a yarn over and we go all the way to the end of this row. And that's what makes the little points that you see in the actual Picot folded Cast On. So then after we finished the place that it's going to fold over but just need to do a little more stock in it. So we have stock in it and see how we have the yarn overs and the knit two togethers right there in the center.

And when you're looking at your fabric you'll see it already wants to fold see how it wants to fold into that happy little plainness. So what we're going to do is we're going to knit together. Our very elusive very flat backwards we cast on together with the next thing. So if you're doing this flat you need to be ready to do a right side row. If you're doing it in the round and everything's knitted anyway so you're good.

And what you do is you fold it so that it's all together and you see how that kind of matches up there, folds over. So I'm going to go into the first stitch as of to knit but I'm not going to go all the way off. And then I'm going to catch that first loop same catching that first loop from the cast on. And then I'm going to knit through both of them and hop off and then I'm going to do it again. I'm going to go into the guy.

I'm going to kind of fold it over to find that next loop go through both of them. And you're going to do that all the way down. And here we're doing a row, but if you were doing it in this, in the round, like the socks you would do it all the way around. And you want to be careful to make sure that you don't skip any of the, the backward Cast On loops. Oops, I'm gonna pull that back out.

Cause I got a little stuck there. You want to make sure you don't skip any of them cause that'll skew things and you want to make sure you're not going in any kind of a funny angle because then that'll make your Picot, oops, Picot slant and we don't want slanted Picots we want straight Picots. So let's get to the end of this. And you can see when I get to the end of the row we have our nice little points, our little Picots and then on the back side and it's all neatly knit and together and it makes a kind of a nice cushy, it's got a little bit of stretch to it and a very nice decorative edging. Thank you so much for joining me to learn how to do a Picot Cast On.

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