Fringed Cast-On

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple and we are going to look at the fringed or looped cast on. This is super fun for garment hems, but especially for scarves. So it has a lot to do with the long tail cast on. So you're going to set it up in the same way. You want to pull off a good amount of yardage before you start, you're going to start with a slip knot and you're going to set up as if to do a long tail cast on.

So I have my working yarn in the position that is away from me. I have my tail yarn towards me. I have my thumb and index finger bet between those two strands and I'm going to pull it down a little bit. Here is my V for victory. If you do the long tail cast on so far, that's all we're doing.

Nothing has changed now to do the fringed or looped cast on. I'm going to come under the front strand from front to back again. Same as the long tail cast on. Here's where it changes now for my back strand, I'm going to go way back here and grab both of them. I'm going to grab both of those strands and pull them through the loop.

And I want to try and keep my finger the same distance away from the needle every single time. Of course, nobody's going to be perfect. But you want it in the general arena of where you did your earlier stitches. Now, normally for a long tail cast on, I would pop my thumb out and I would grab this front strand and pull, but now I'm going to pop my thumb out and grab the second strand and tighten it up. So I'm gonna use my thumb to tighten that up.

So there is my loop that I just made is right here. Let's try that again. I'm going to set up as if for the long tail cast on the working yarn is away from me. The tail yarn is towards me. I'm going to go under the front strand from front to back.

I'm going to go under both strands from back to front. I'm going to pull both of those strands through the loop. Get my thumb out of the way and use the second strand, the strand that's away from me to tighten up the stitch. That one was a little long. You get better with practice.

Let's do that one more time under the front under the back. Use the second strand to tighten the stitch under the front, under the back. Use the second strand to tighten the stitch. Once you get a rhythm going, it's easier to make them the same. So you have a couple of options here.

You can leave them long and luscious and loopy. Or if you want actual fringe, you could get your rotary cutter or your very sharp scissors here. Let's go ahead and do it. We'll get our sharp scissors and we can cut right across the bottom to even everything out. And now I have my fringe already on the end of my piece.