Judy's Magic Cast On

Hi guys, Mary Beth Temple here. Welcome to the Knitting Circle! Now we have another video for you, on Judy's magic, provisional cast on, but what if you want it as a permanent cast on? So let's take a closer look at Judy's magic cast on. I'm going to work on two double pointed needles, but if you wanted to, depending on what you were knitting, you could also work on two tips of a circular needle.

So you want your tips pointing to the left. You're going to drape, the yarn over the top needle. This one's the top one, this one's the bottom one. And you're going to go a little ways in, like you would for a long tail cast on, but you do not need to make a slip knot. So you're going to drape the yarn over the top needle, so that the tail yarn is towards you, and the working yarn is away from you.

I'm going to close up those two knitting needles, so stuff doesn't go away. Now, I'm going to set my fingers up in the same way that I would consider doing a long tail cast on. So I'm going to get my thumb, and my index finger, and I'm going to push it so that the tail yarn, is over my index finger. And the working yarn is over my thumb. As you can see, we got a little twist in the yarn back here, which is excellent.

So that is our first stitch cast on. Moving forward. The thing to remember, is that your index finger, casts onto the bottom needle, and your thumb, casts onto the top needle. As long as you remember that, this is not tricky at all. If that gets away from you, you could find this cast on a little frustrating.

So I'm going to take my index finger. I'm going to bring the yarn under the needle, and down between them. So now I have a total of two stitches cast on, one on the top, one on the bottom. Now, since I just cast a stitch onto the bottom, I have to cast a stitch onto the top. Which means I'm using my thumb.

And instead of going from the outside in, the thumb goes from the inside out. So I'm bringing my yarn between the two needles, and over the top needle. That has been my third stitch. So I went one, two, three. So my next one's going to be down here.

It's going to be four, and I'm going to, I keep losing that bottom needle. And I'm going to use my index finger. So I'm going to bring the index finger under, and down through the middle. Five's going to be a top one. So I'm going to use my thumb, bring it up through the middle and then over.

So, as long as you have all of your fingers, and yarns, in the right place, the cast on is super simple. Let's talk it through one more time. Bottom needle gets the index finger. The index finger comes under the needle, and down through the middle, the top needle gets the thumb. The thumb comes up between the two, and over the top needle.

Now, if you're worried that it's not twisting. It is, look how nice that is, and that gives you a beautiful, beautiful finish. So if you're concerned somehow that you're not going in the right direction, flip your needles over like I just did, and make sure that those little twists are happening. And if they are, you're golden. Thank you so much for joining me.

I'm Mary Beth Temple here, at the Knitting Circle. And now you have learned Judy's magic cast on. We'll see you again here real soon. Bye bye.