I've only just started knitting but i've found sooooo many confusing and needlesly complicated instructions for this long tail cast. thank you for this simplified version that works so well
I use these videos to refresh myself what my brain can’t remember alls I gotta do is type in what I need & I have it from there so easy wanna get as good at knitting as I am at crocheting
Girl I just bought a Boye "I taught myself to knit" and I am already so frustrated. No real instructions, mostly "do like the picture in figure 8." Like damn babe idk how to do that, that's what I bought the book for... so appreciative for this channel
@@YeyazWyrd hahahaha i feeel that. RU-vid has saved me, but i still get stuck 🙃 or accidentally try to do a brioche knitting pattern and get thoroughly defeated
Casting on like this (like my grandmother used to) has been a hidden secret in my mind for about 25+ years since my grandma taught me knitting as a kid! She would always cast on for me. I finally decided to pick up knitting again and I cant believe I know how to do this now! Thank you for your clear video!
I love the "hack" of wrapping it around the needle to get the desired length ... I am attempting to do a blanket that calls for casting on 124 stitches. I was dreading figuring out the math for that. Your method is so much easier. Thank you!
I keep coming back to this video every single time I’m wanting to start a knitting project with long tail cast on. She gives clear directions and tells you exactly why you want to have certain placements with the yarn.
Great video! I LOVE that you got right to the point (no yammering about where the dog is, doing laundry, etc.). And your slow movements as you demonstrated each step were fantastic! Your video has to be the best one out there for demonstrating this cast on! Thanks so much for taking the time to help us!
I’ve had brain surgery twice and can’t remember ANYTHING about knitting! I got a kit for a scarf and this is the first video after ten where I could see exactly how to cast on. It’s taken me nearly an hour to figure it out and my fingers are cramping badly…but I got it!!! Thanks so much!
easiest explanation I've seen. I've always "knitted" my cast on. It makes a great finish edge but it's not nearly as stretchy as other cast on methods I've read about. So, glad you took the mystery out of this for me.
Thank you I have knitted for years and had no need to do a provision cast on until now. Great video, easy to understand, new skill accomplished thank you for making it straight forward and clear to follow.
Ty ty ty! I am a crocheter learning how to knit. I watched a lot of videos on how to cast & wanted to throw my needles away. So happy I found your easy & helpful video. You got right to it…showed it all clearly & easily. Ty again!
Great video! I was able to pick it up pretty quickly. My only suggesting is that reiterating that the long tail should always be looping over your thumb would be super helpful. Once I figured that out I was going along great. Thanks again!
ive seen several ways to do this type of cast on, and ive always had trouble figuring it out. while watching this video, i successfully completed my first long tail cast on. thank you!!
So much yes. you're spectacular in your video teaching technique. I can crochet like nothing else but always had a hard time catching on to knitting...two sticks...what is this madness?? Until now the skill has evaded me, no matter how many videos I suffered through. You, my lovely individual, have changed that. Thank you ever so much! 12 million gold stars for you.
thank you! My grandma’s used to teach me to knit, one of them lived really close and the other 3 hours away. when the one who lived really close died, i couldn’t knit as much because i wasn’t the best at it without assistance. i decided to get back into it and this has really helped me :D
oh man thank you for this, i'm a beginner knitter and this is the first video out of about half a dozen that actually made me understand what i was supposed to do with this method
I’ve knitted over 50 yrs and have never seen anyone cast on like the common methods used today. I was taught to knit by fishermen that made their own nets. I hold the needle in my right hand and twist the yarn around one finger on my left hand. Learned something new, but I’m too used to my method and find these new methods awkward and I make a total mess, 😂
She's one of the best out there demonstrating the long tail cast on. Hope you keep on demonstrating knitting stitches such as decreasing, changing colors of yarn etc.... Thanks for helping us!
I learned to knit sitting across from my grandmother. She is right handed I am left handed. But reversed, in my head, what you were doing and finally remembered how to do it. Your precise actions and instruction is very well done. Thank you!
I have been trying to do this cast on for the past 3 days without success, using many different videos. Thanks to you I have finally mastered it. Great demontration.
This is so awesome! I tend to be a tight knitter, so I love how this makes it easier to control the tension of the cast-on row. It is so much easier to knit into this than easy cast-on. Thanks for this.
I LITERALLY LOVE YOU 😭I just now started learning to knit since I also pick up crocheting and my grandma got me knitting needles thinking it was the same thing so this tutorial helped me a lot ❤
First video I have seen where someone actually shows me how to hold my yarn for this type of cast on. Everyone else just says start with a sling shot and then grab their yarn and also nobody ever told me how to figure out the length of the yarn I need. Thank you. I can't tell you how many video's I've watched to try and learn this. I had it down pat after watching your video just a few times. Very well done.
Don't pay any attention to the negative comments ... you did an amazing job in explaining this and mine turned out great. One thing I wanted to mention and that was how to determine the length of the long tail. My project called for 225 cast on stitches and I found it a lot easier to determine the length I needed by doing the math calculations which were easy to do. I found a tutorial for this on the internet. Thanks again for the great tutorial!
Thanks so much for your kind words! Figuring out the length of the tail can be tricky. One trick you can try is to wrap the yarn around the needle the same number of times as the stitches you need. For example, if you need 225 cast on stitches, wrap the yarn around the needle 225 times. That length will be long enough to cast on 225 stitches. This trick works pretty well if you need to cast on less than 50 stitches. However, for more than 50 stitches, I find that this method gives you waaaay too much yarn tail. For your situation, I would cast on 20 stitches, undo the cast on, measure the length of yarn it took to cast on 20 stitches, and then multiply that length of yarn by 11 (20 sts x 11 = 220 sts). Then add a few more inches for those last five stitches. Hope that makes sense!
I looked at several videos about this subject and yours was the easiest to follow. I appreciated the slow pace you used so as to really see the details. I am, able to do it now!!!!! Thank you!
I learnt almost all of my knitting basics from you. I've seen a lot of knitters use this cast on but I didn't know that this one itself is the famous longtail cast on. I saw a different video showing this cast on in a very complicated manner that I couldn't catch on to until I found your video and I did it perfectly in a minute. I learned my first ever cast on from you, it was the single cast on method and now this is the second one.
I've been knitting for 2 years and used the long tail cast on frequently but never felt happy with it. This video is fantastic! Taking the slipknot off and turning it so the long tail is facing you is a complete game changer - thank you! ❤
I have been struggling to learn to knit for so long. This video was PERFECT! Slow, clear instructions with an easy to follow narrator. Great job Davina!
SO clear! Thank you! During the Covid lockdown I am collecting bits of fleece from brambles and fencing on my daily walks, collecting dyestuff, making dyes, mordanting, dyeing, carding, spinning, plying....and finally knitting a beanie. I've done everything but learning to knit - thank you, I think I can start now!
Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you! I’ve been knitting for over 40 years and have always had a problem with casting on. After watching your video once, I am now a lot mor3 confident and proficient,
God this was an amazing tutorial, thank you so much! So nicely paced for someone who has never held knitting needles before, and was trying to learn alone. Thank you again!!
I am new to knitting & found this demo clearly shows the steps to take. The last step, getting the right hole was tricky until I watched this video. Thank you! 😊
Best video available to explain this technique. Nice and slow, enough repetition. You cover the easy way to measure the tail. I watched so many, and yours taught me the most -- thanks so much!
This video is amazing! I watched SIX other videos to try and learn this cast-on with no luck. The clear instructions and great demonstration, got it on the first try!!! Thank you so much ♥️
I watched umpteen videos before I came across yours, and was almost about to give up. This video was the best, it gave me confidence to let go of the yarn due to your explaining process and watching you “clamp down”.This was a lifesaver! I’m so grateful
Thank you so much. Techniques of knitting, are much easier today than 30+ years ago. Thank God that I am getting caught up, I have been knitting on and off for 54 years. I think you are a magnificent knitting educator instructor. Thank you for all that you do.😂🥰😘🌺🌹💐🙋🏽♀️
Thank you so much, this is the first video that I watched that showed the long tail cast on in a way that I could pick it up quickly. Some people can knit fast but it's like they forget what it is like to be a beginner; and some people can teach knitting....thank you for being able to teach.
Thank you! I’ve watched hundreds of videos trying to learn the long tail cast on but yours was the only one that I could actually do it with. I’m so happy. Thanks again.
This is such a good tutorial, I haven't watched you in years because I was busy on my career but about 10 years ago I was deeply into all crafts and have missed all of them and recently have returned to knitting especially for doll garments. It was funny I picked up needles to cast on but I felt lost somehow there was a loop missing haha, and went back and watched this and it all cam back like riding a bike. thank you!!
OMG tysmmmmmmm this video was SOO helpful I’ve been wanting to know how to cast on for ages! It took me about half an hour to to do it but that’s okay! I literally subscribed to you just from this one video!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have struggled with this cast on for a while now. With your video, played on half speed I mastered it right away! Thank you!
Thank you so much, Davina. You explained this so well and gave me plenty of time to get my arthritic fingers in the right spot. Amazingly my memory kicked in and I remembered that this is what my grandmother taught me over 50 years ago. Thank you also for the trip down memory lane. Before I found you i had watched others and they just rushed through and didn't explain how their hands changed, so if you're new or haven't knitted in half a century - Davina is the best!
Best cast on video I've found. I haven't knitted in about ten years & somehow forgot how to use this long tail method, thanks to your precise tutorial, I now recall the motions!!
I watched about 3 videos prior to this one, trying to teach the same thing, which I struggled to follow, even slowed down. This video is perfect and easy to watch and practice as you go. I can now cast on using the long tail method, thank you!
Thank you so much for showing this so slowly and clearly, being a mature lady who hasn't knitted since a young girl, I find circular needles so hard to cast onto, I never thought I would ever manage this method and thanks to you I have. Much appreciated 👍🏻🙏🏻
Ah thank you!!!! I was trying with the little finger, round back of hand, round the thumb way of creating the 'slighshot' and was having a nightmare with keeping tension with my little finger. Your clamp and split method is so much easier I've finally been able to cast on with the long-tail method!
Loved cast on! Piano music started to play and I could not find out how to stop it. It was very distracting. Love the lady’ voice! Loved the video! Thank you. Betty G.
This was awesome!!! Thank you so much! Me, watching it first time: OH MY GOSH! WHAT MAGIC IS THIS? Me, watching it the second time, and trying it myself. Holy Toledo. This is amazing. I love this cast on method! It's so soothing and meditative.
Hey! My daughter is making me a scarf and she forgot how to cast on. This helped her a lot!! Thank you sheep & stitch for making these easy to follow videos!❤🎉
Thank you so much! You are an absolute lifesaver! I was using the Boye " I Taught Myself Knitting" book, and I understood everything (mostly) up until the "put it back through the loop" part. Illustrations are terrible. Actually I've had a hard time learning to crochet too -- for one reason. I can't seem to keep track of my yarn. Which is a huge reason I like this video. Unlike other videos I've seen, you make it simple and easy to understand what is happening with the yarn and needle. Seriously, I was ready to pop a blood vessel. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
This is wonderful! Thank you for explaining this super simply and slowly. Lots of "beginner" oriented videos still gloss over some of the basic motions, since it's easy for them· but it's not for me. Thanks for explaining this so well!
Love you, Davina!! I really love your channel!! Please start a series of projects for the advanced beginner/intermediate knitter. What knitting books can you recommend? Do you knit socks? How to knit the shoulders in sweaters… etc. Thanks for all that you do!
Thank you for making the viedo straight to the point, step by step sequential. You were very easy to follow and I love the tip about getting your left hand used to grabbing the yarn to prepare for the loop.
Yay!! I can’t thank you enough for this video 🙏🏽 I had heard about long tail casting and wanted to try it. I kept getting it wrong LOL - it can truly be confusing. Your video, explanation, demo and calm voice put me on the right track. So a huge thank you ☺️
I tried several videos/explanations for long tail cast on and couldn’t get it at all. This one was brilliant and after replaying a couple of times and practising I got it!! So clear, slow and simple. Thanks!
Ty so much for such an AMAZING learning video. I taught myself to crochet when I was around 8 years old but could never figure out knitting. And the few times I tried to learn it from someone they would show the technique way to fast and/or become irritated with my lack of skills. I'm extremely sensitive so when I'm around people who are angry, irritated or hostile in ANY way I become a nervous wreck and I cannot function in a hostile environment, so I gave up. However during the COVID lockdown I started to learn as much as I could from these amazing RU-vid videos 💕😀. It's as if I found the magic lamp on how to learn to do ANYTHING! Now there are SO MANY different videos for each new hobby especially for knitting, but I have to tell you that this particular video is simply the BEST video I have ever watched, explaining how to do the long tail cast on. Not only did I learn to do the cast on the first time I tried, but so did my 7yr old autistic daughter whom I hadn't realized was watching the video over my shoulder...lol. She has plastic knitting needles she got for Christmas this year and was following along. When I turned around she had already cast on 19 loops! Ty again!!!!🌸💕
Thank you! Picking up knitting a after about 20 years. I’m an avid crocheted now and want to be able to add knitting to my skill set. This video was very helpful!
I haven't knitted since my grandmother taught me as a child and I just recently got back into it. I guess knitting isn't like riding a bike because I had forgotten everything she taught me including how to cast on. I came across a video on how to do the easy cast on method (short tail) but after trying it that method seemed different from what I remembered. After a ton of videos showing the easy method I came across your video and this is the method I remember my grandmother teaching me. Thanks for the very detailed instructions on how to do this! I didn't realize there were different ways to cast on! LOL!
What a great video. I'm fairly new to knitting, so each time I want to cast on I have to look it up. Your hands are so expressive and the timing with your hand movements and your speech are perfect. Thanks so much for this.
Aww thank you so much for your kind words! I have an updated video on the longtail cast on (using the thumb method) in case you’d like another way to cast on: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1vm6oaYzHyA.html enjoy!
Love ❤️ this method it's so much less complicated than the German cast on, you are a brilliant teacher 👨🏫 you make things so clear which makes it easy to follow thank you, x
You truly an amazing teacher. I hadn’t picked up my knitting needles in many years and it was as if I had forgotten how to knit properly, you have added back the zest to my life. 👏
It's been a bit so needed a quick refresher lol yay for winter LOL we need new scarves. This is really a game changer. The finished edge is so much nicer
Wow I have watched many MANYYYYYYYY videos because I just couldnt understand and this video here had good explanation, good camera work, ahowing close up, explaining some things twice. And much easier wayyy of explanation. I still cant believe that I did the long tail. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!
this was a great tutorial. I have tried to learn this many times, and have to look it up each time. Today I feel like with your explanation, It may be stuck in my head!
The Sheep & Stitch tutorials are so helpful. I would never be able to concentrate on something that feels very complicated with out easy, specific steps with no other banter. Thank you for being concise, steady, repeating the steps, and doing so slowly, several times. I repeated portions of this video as I was doing a 123 stitch cast on - haha what am I thinking? Thank you for such wonderful tutorial videos.
So many methods for doing a long tail cast-on are so irritating, fidgety and time consuming (constantly changing hands, etc.,) that I’ve always hated it. You taught me to love it! Your method is so fluid, fast and fun. And both your tutorial and your videography are brilliant, so informative and enjoyable. Thanks very much!
i just went to a class at Fleece 'n' Flax in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This is the way i was shown today how to cast. I lost my memory of one of the steps when I got home, so I wet look'n on youtube. This is the way my teacher, chris, taught me today. I liked him so much! Thank you for your amazing videos. I will watch all of the knitting. :) You have a good teaching voice too; it's happy and pleasant to listen to.
