Ribbed Longtail Cast On

Hi there I am Corrina Ferguson for the knitting circle in this video we're going to learn. A nifty cast on, you can use anytime you're making something with ribbing, so let's get started. So in this video I want to talk about the cast on that you use when you're going to have something that has ribbing on it. A lot of sweaters that are worked from the bottom up or hats or socks that are worked from the top down, we'll start with, you know, enter two or whatever a ribbing and ribbing of course is this nice stretchy little samples we have here. And when you're casting on for the ribbing a lot of times they won't specify how to cast on and you can use your favorite.

They'll say, use a stretchy one. The one that I like to use the best is a modified long-tail cast on for the rib cast on. And you can kind of see the difference. So we have our two little pieces of knitting and this one's been cast on with a rib cast on and you see how it kind of goes up and down with the rib. This one has been cast on like regularly and it doesn't do that.

It just kind of flares straight across and even adds like a little flare to the rib which I don't personally like. So I want to show you the difference between a regular long tail cast on and a rib long tail cast on. So I've got some things going here and I'm doing a long tail cast on so now we get our little fingers together. So here is our long tail cast on. So when you have a long tail cast on there are four kind of things going on here.

We have, you can go into number one, number two number three, and number four, number four is down there in your fingers, rearrange it a little better. And when you do a normal long tail cast on you go under number one, over number three and you pull it through under number one, over number three and you pull it through and it's a nice it gets to be a very rhythmic kind of thing and you get muscle memory for it and you know how to do your long tail cast on. So, but if and you'll see all these stitches get a little closer there are lining up all nicely. And it's just like this guy here. It's just all very neat and very nice.

Now, when you do a rich cast on you do it a little different you do, depending on your rib. My rib is a two by two rib. I would do two stitches the normal way. And then I would do two stitches. What I call a reverse long tail.

And this is one of those things that I've seen but I kind of figured out that it would work better for me this way. So let me show you how to do this. So regular long tail, we use one and three, one, two, three, four, we go one If I can get it. And then we go three, right? For the reverse to get the reverse of it going.

We're going to do four and two. This is one, this is two, three, four. So one, two, three, four, normal is one, three. We're going to do four and two. So we're going to go under four over two and just pull it through the same way under four over two and pull it through the same way.

And you can already kind of see how easy it is to see here that it changes from kind of what looks like a knit stitch to like a little probe. Let's do a couple of regular ones. These are just regular long tails using strand one and strand three, one, two. And then, like I said we're going to do four and two instead of one and three we're going to do four and two. So we're going to go through the underneath number four over and pull through number two.

And when you learn to do this you it's easy to make your finger kind of like pull the yarn into the position that you needed the next time. So we go under four over two and pull it through and my fingers going to let go. And then it's going to sync it up by pulling that loop of yarn back where I want it to be. And I do the same thing when I do the regular. So go back to the regular.

We go one and two, and we use our thumb to pull it. When we do this one and this one we use our forefinger to pull it. And it won't feel as natural to you at first but the more that you practice it, the easier it gets. Thank you so much for learning with me how to do the ribbed cast on check out our website from our great videos.