I’ve had several requests for this video,
called the German Twisted Cast-on, and I’ve
also seen it called the Old Norwegian Cast-on.
And if you’re familiar with doing the long
tail cast on slingshot method, this is going
to be a lot like what you’re used to doing.
There’s an extra little twist in it, and
it makes for a much stretchier cast on.
Let’s take a look.
Here’s my little sample, and down here I
have the cast on, the German Twisted Cast
on.
You see here, this is REALLY boing-boing stretchy.
It’s awesome.
I’m going to be using this for the cuffs
of socks from now on.
And this is the bind off.
And to bind it off I did, I just bound off
in pattern.
Which is almost as stretchy – not quite
as stretchy as this, but nearly as stretchy.
So if I was going to try to match up a cast
on and a bind off I might just do this.
Binding off in pattern.
I did this in rib because I wanted to really
show you just how stretchy it is.
Okay, to get started, we have to leave a long
tail, just like when we’re working the long
tail cast on.
And you can either start with a slip knot
or without.
I’m going to go ahead and start without
one this time.
You set yourself up like you’re doing a
sling shot cast on.
Yarn around your first finger and your thumb,
and the rest of the fingers hanging on to
the yarn down here.
Put your needle up under the thread between
your thumb and forefinger, and put your index
finger down holding that.
So you go, first you start by going under
both strands of yarn, back over the top one,
and up.
And then you grab the strand from your first
finger.
Now here’s the tricky part of this cast
on.
You want to put you thumb down to untwist
what was on your thumb, and pull that loop
through.
See there?
It took me more than once to get this, so
I’ll be sure to go over this again!
Around both strands, back under and just through
the one, then pick up the strand on your index
finger, bend your thumb down, and pull that
through.
My thumb was like this.
I’m bending it down to remove the twist
that was on there.
And pull that through.
One more time.
Up under both, back and through with just
one strand, grab it here, bend your thumb,
pull that through.
I don’t expect you to get that on the first
watch of this video!
If you’re anything like me, you’re going
to have to practice it a few times and watch
it a few times.
But it’s worth it, it is an awesome cast
on.
That’s the German Twisted, or Old Norwegian
cast on.
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