In this video, i demonstrate a centre out cast on called the Pinhole Cast On or Disappearing Loop cast on. I use this cast on to start the Musselburgh hat. You can buy me a coffee at ko-fi.com/mostlyknitting
Honestly, this is the absolute best and easiest version of the disappearing loop cast on. Excellent video, don’t get frustrated by watching anything else! Well done!
That's so cool for me to know. I dont do a lot of crochet so it is helpful for me to understand when the two intersect and something that may seem "new" to me in crochet is actually something i have done before in knitting. Thanks for taking the time to leave such a helpful comment. :)
Sat down for "one last try" at center cast on and...this video finally did it. Only backed up once so I could have the step by step narration for all 8 stitches. Brilliant!
I’ve watched a LOT of videos on how to do the pinhole cast on, and this is by far the best one. Thank you for demonstrating what I think is the simplest way to do this cast-on…no crochet hook, no reorienting stitches, and heaven forbid no DPNs flopping around with only 8 stitches on them!
Like OP have said, I tried watching another creator's video and following written instructions, and your tutorial was just the ticket. It's so much about the holding of the stitches while you manipulate the yarn. Also, I know other knitters do the crochet magic ring to start and then transfer to their knitting needles to accomplish the same thing. I prefer to learn how to do it this way, but as a lifelong crocheter who learned knitting as an adult, I think that could be very helpful for others who have the same background. Love your videos!
Thank you for this! I just found it after trying to cast on with help from 4 or 5 other tutorials, including Ysolda's. This is by far the best. Thank you so much!!!
When you said “each stitch needs to go under the tail and the loop” combined with the video showing you doing that I FINALLY understood how to do the cast on. I have watched numerous videos this past year with no success. I now understand and can do the cast on. Thank you! As one teacher to another you understand visual and auditory learning.
Hi. Just want to say a huge thank you. I have tried and tried to start a Musselburgh hat. Finally, you helped me grasp the cast on. Just about to start my 2nd one. Thanks again. 🤗
Wow, that was fantastic, you have been with me most if the morning going backwards and forwards and by George, I think I might have it. Thank you so much for your help.
I have tried many disappearing loop cast on (pinhole) methods without satisfaction. Yours is easy and comes out perfectly. Thank you very much. I am going to transfer the stitches to dpns as I dislike magic loop. Grateful for this cast on.
This is THE best tutorial I’ve seen for this cast on! Wish I had found it before starting my first Musselburgh hat. I can’t even count the number of tries before I got it to work on that first hat! I just found your channel and subscribed. Ironically, my first trip to Australia (Sydney) is only two weeks away! I’ll be knitting a hat on the ling flight!
Thanks so much Becky. I suspect you will be making more so hopefully this tutorial will help later on for future hats. Thanks for subscribing. Hope you have a wonderful trip. :)
I am so thrilled i came across your video I have made 4 Musselburgh hats, this is the first time i did not struggle with cast on amazing. I immediately casted on my 5th Musselburg. ❤❤🎉🎉👏👏👏
Thank you for this information, I started the Musselburgh hat as a holiday project a week ago on my journey to Le Touquet, France. Ended up using DPN's. Enjoying the tutorials
It is such a great holiday project. You can definitely start your hat on DPNs. I started my first few on dpns but found it a bit fiddly so switched to magic loop. Thanks so much for leaving a comment. I hope you had a lovely holiday. :)
Wow! Where have you been all my knitting life!! I was gifted the Musselburgh pattern and I am so so grateful to you and your tutorial. I haven't yet started the hat yet as I was gifted today and intend to start it on my trip to Ghana, in a couple of weeks. I'm doubly excited for both events now. Thank you much for this tutorial...it was super helpful!🙏
So thankful I found your video today! I getting ready to get this on the needles, finally. Such a crazy, busy season for me with knitting, but now it's slowing. A couple new techniques for me with this one. This and magic loop. When you close up that hole do you close it up tight before you start knitting? Thank you so much for doing this and your other video giving the information about what you've learned.
@@mostlyknitting thank you, for responding so quickly! I've read through many of your answers on both videos and I'll be starting soon. The great part is my head circumference is just a bit smaller than yours, at 21.5". And I'm neither a tight or loose knitter really. I'm usually right on target with gauge with most weights, but the exception sometimes is fingering weight. Maybe it's just me and how I think it looks using the called for needle, but other hats I've done the fabric seems thin. It doesn't seem to create a dense fabric, if that makes sense. I've often wondered if that's just how it is with thin yarn in general, but if I see it starting the brim I go down a needle size. In the end it still seems thin on the brim anyway (patterns not double brim or folded.) Modicum is a good example. I'm on gauge so much that I stopped swatching unless my gut tells me I'd better, and it always works out. Even then I cheat and use the swatch trick. 😂I should just trust the recommended needle size if I'm using yarn that's accurate weight with well written patterns, and go for it. Thanks again for the quick response! I'm looking forward to my first one.
Hi Rosemary, Because the cast on is for the crown of the hat, it wont affect the stretchiness of the ribbing of the brim when you get to that part. You will have to be sure to do a stretchy bind off, though. For the Musselburgh hat, it wont matter at all as it is essentially one long tube that gets doubled for the hat. As long as your gauge is ok, the hat wont be too tight. Hope that helps. :)
Thank you for this. I am a long time crocheter but am wanting to learn to knit this year. I purchased this hat pattern after seeing it floating around for awhile, but I’m very nervous to start for some reason. Your tutorial has helped me tremendously in overcoming my anxiety with starting this project.
Hi Jenn Thanks so much for leaving such a nice comment. I think once you get past the cast on and get a few more stitches on the needles, you will be off and knitting. I have done a tutorial for the increases M1L and M1R if that helps as well. Thanks again and hope you have lots of success on the hat. Feel free to message again if you get stuck. Best to leave a new message as if you reply to this one, i dont always see it. :)
So on the second part of the stitch that is cast on, you wrap the yarn around the needle, in the usual way. I’ve also seen tutorials that show the second wrap of the needle done in the reverse, or clockwise way. What would be the difference or advantage of one over the other, do you know?
Hi Kris. I have done it both ways and it seems to make no difference. I first learned it wrapping in reverse as you mention and I did it that way for a while. But it seems to give the same result so i thought it would just be easier to show it wrapping in the usual way. :)
Hi there. The Musselburgh is essentially a double thick hat with one half folded inside the other. So the turned up brim is 4 layers thick. The Oslo hat has a folded brim which then gets folded again so it is 3 layers. The Musselburgh is specifically written for lots of different weights of yarn but I like it best with 4ply. The Olso hat pattern is written for DK weight yarn but you could modify for other weights but you would have to change the stitch count yourself as it isnt specifically written that way. Hope that helps. :)
Thank you so much...I have had all ingredients waiting in a bag and not made this hat out of abject fear...now, between this and your video of your 12 hats, I can get on with it...
Thanks so much for sharing another name for this cast on. Given that I don't really crochet much, I was unaware it had another name. Not surprising, though. I appreciate you mentioning it and it may help others. Thank you. :)
