How to do the provisional cast on with a crochet hook in knitting
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- Опубліковано 3 сер 2024
- A step by step tutorial on provisional cast on knitting with a crochet hook
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The provisional cast on with a crochet hook is my personal favorite method because it makes counting stitches very easy.
You will need some slippery scrap yarn like cotton, and a crochet hook. Don’t use a fuzzy yarn or anything that has a lot of friction. It will make it very hard to unravel your stitches later on. And I would take a contrasting color so it’s easier to make out the difference between your knitting and the provisional cast on.
Start with a simple slip knot and then you crochet a couple of chain stitches. And then, you put your knitting needle in between the working yarn and the live chain stitch and add one more chain stitch trapping your knitting needle in between.
Then, you have to bring the yarn around the needle, and then you add another one. Bring the yarn around again, and chain stitch again. And so on.
Try to work those stitches towards the middle of the needle and not on the taper because it may get a bit harder to slide them across your needle if you crochet them too tight.
Once you cast on enough provisional stitches, add a couple of more chain stitches, like 4 or 5 and then cut the yarn and pull it through. I always mark the end with a little knot. Because this will be the end where you’ll start unraveling.
And then, you can simply knit across these stitches in any pattern you like. Make sure you don’t split the yarn as you go. Because then you can’t unravel it anymore.
Now, how do you pick up the provisional cast on? There are two methods:
You can either unravel the chain stitch and pick up as you go, or you can insert your needles into the stitches beforehand and then unravel.
I prefer inserting the knitting needle into the left leg of all stitches of the first row. And once you did that, you can unravel the chain stitches.
So, what happens if unraveling like this doesn’t work? You would have to pick up your knitting needle, cut the tail and then undo the stitches one at a time. Or, if you are daring enough, you can also cut the provisional cast-on every two or three stitches and tear it out.
One last thing: You might be wondering how to knit a provisional cast-on in round. Here’s the good news - it’s the exact same technique. The only difference is that you distribute the stitches to 4 needles instead of one. It might be easier for you to start on one needle and then slip the stitches to your double-pointed needles once you cast on all your stitches.
For joining in the round. I do recommend you do slip a couple of stitches like 3 or 4 from the last needle to the first. From my experience, it makes knitting this first round much easier. But of course, you could also knit one round flat, and only then switch to your double-pointed needles.
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Make sure to comment in case you got any problems - either with this cast on or knitting in general :)
Norman, no matter how many other knitting channels I watch, when I need the best method for a particular technique, you’re my go-to. As so many others have said, your instructions and the video quality are simply the best. I am SO full of gratitude for you and your channel. I hope to get to your part of the world someday so I can buy you a cup of tea and knit 🧶❤️🙏🏼
I was going to say the exact same thing! Norman definitely has the best tutorials. Thank you very much.
so well done Norman! I love how easily your explain things -- so much easier than picture in a book!
So happy to hear this! Thank you for your feedback :)
This was the easiest provisional CO method for me because I am left handed and I had problems following other methods. Thank you.
A very clear explanation, Norman. Thank-you. This is really helpful.
I like the way you explain. You make it simple to follow your instructions
Another brilliant tutorial covering all eventualities including going wrong. Thank you 😊
Brilliant! So much easier than other methods for provisional cast on!
I've been using this cast on for garter tabs for shawls thanks to your video - thank you so much for turning the work over to show us what it looks like in garter stitch too, and for showing us how to pick up the stitches on the bottom!
You are the only one I trust as my go to for help to learn
I can't thank you enough for all the time you have taken to explain things so clearly
Very clear with explanations how to fix problems. I really appreciate the various spatial orientations and complete details.
Making a knot in the end to rip out is brilliant! No more confusion!
Love this method. Stitches are very even, and no need to pick up stitches. I totally agree with you.
Thank you, Norman! I love your explanations, they are clear, well-paced and up to the point. And thank you for addressing the problems connected with undoing the provisional cast on, after your explanations I was finally able to successfully do the pco!
You are my knitting hero. Thank you
This is an incredible tutorial! It’s so clear and easy to understand. Thank you! ❤
So very helpful. Easy to follow directions. Thank you Norman!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've watched quite a few POC videos and this one helped the best. It continues after the cast on for further demo. Great!!!
This is the BEST and ONLY video I found explaining how to do a provisional cast on! Yes I found videos to show how to do it - that’s great its on my needles - now what!? And you showed the “now what” part of what it will look like after a few knitted rows! I have never done this and I want to start a new project that requires this type of cast on but I did not understand what to do with this cast on once I’ve knitted my project and why I would need to do it in the first place and why I had to cut the yarn. Thank you for showing how it will work once I’ve knitted rows (oh and how to start knitting the project after the cast on!). Now I feel confident to get this on my needles (although it requires circular needles so joining the yarn worries me a bit). I will reevaluate your in the round section of this video. Thanks again for being thorough!
awesome. happy to be of help adriana!
You are amazingly thorough! Thank you.
I’m a new knitter. Thank you for this because I finally understand this process now! ❤
Thank you. . . I found this tutorial most helpful.
Thank you! I watched many videos! But, I like your provisional cast on the best! Your explanations were plain and simple.❤❤❤
Thank you, very well explained and demonstrated.
Your explanations are descriptive and thorough...thank you so much. Im sure I will refer back to this from time to time to refresh my memory. Kudos.
Absolutely brilliant! Making the chain stitches over the needle makes it so much easier and quicker. No one has ever shown me that method before! Certainly better than making the long chain first and then picking up stitches from the back of the chains.
Thank you very much for nice and clear explanations! This has helped me.
So glad I found your channel. You make everything I thought too difficult to try very understandable and easy. I've watched other people and could not get what they were doing but your videos are very clear and make things a breeze. Also, you seem to have a video for all my questions! Thank you!
Excellent tutorial. Very clear.
Your tutorials are always incredibly thorough & so very helpful. Thank you so much 💫
You are so welcome, Natalie
Thank You once again! ! Very clear and helpful.
Fantastically helpful ! Thanks a million !
I was struggling with other videos, when my light bulb lit!! Nimble needles!! Thank you so much Norman for your thorough and easy to follow instructions.
I have been avoiding patterns that called for a provisional cast on because it seemed so difficult. Until I found your video! Thank you so much.
Thank you thank you! I’ve been trying with the waste yarn method and making a fantastic mess. This method is so much easier and you explained it so well. Rock star!,
Thank you for explaining how to pick up the stitches so clearly and what to do if you have problems with this. This was very helpful!
This us exactly what I needed to see! Thank you for this video. I was looking to find the best Fiber to use for a provisional cast on in order to more easily pull it out when needed. Cotton is perfect!
Yes, I agree. This is the easiest way I've ever done. Thanks!!!
Thanks for your method Norman it is way better than the few I tried before finding your method. Your instruction was clearer and the end result is cleaner- easy to make and remove!
Thanks so much for this video Norman, it made the provisional cast on so much simpler for me!
Aww..very happy to hear that 🥰
Just picking up knitting after years of absence. You are great! Makes total sense in every aspect!
thank you for your nice feedback, nancy! :)
Thank you, Norman!
This method works, used others and hem was inclined to move and slant but with this method it does not happen. Thank you Norman.
Thank you always for such detailed and easy to understand as well as thorough instructions!
Since I tend to cast on too tightly, my mother taught me a trick to cast on to two needles instead of one. After I finish the crochet, I pull out one needle and it is very loose and easy to knit with thereafter!
Das ist toll, Norman. Sie erklären gut die Methode. Das Video ist sehr klar und ich lerne eine neue Methode. Vielen Dank!
Das freut mich zu hören! Vor allem auch auf Deutsch :) Aber wie immer, gern geschehen.
I never considered adding a few chains at the beginning & end. What a great idea! Thank you for your clear explanation.
It makes unraveling so much easier! Glad I could inspire you! :)
Very clear and very helpful!
WOW LOVE WATCHING YOU…..🎉❤ YOU MAKE EVERYTHING SO MUCH EASIER….
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am learning so much from you! I also agree, 50+ stitches ugh lol so after 50 I use a stitch marker so i can remember what my last count was.
yeah, if I don't place stitch markers every 20 stitches I'll be lost....^^
This method has been the best example of a provisional cast on for knitting!Thank you very much!👍👵🏻
You are so welcome, Pam!
Great tutorial Norman ....
I tried it out , and I was very happy that I could do it .
Thank you .🥰🥰🥰
Great job!
Love this tutorial. So much more efficient to crochet stitch the stitches at the same time than picking them up afterwards. Thank you!
my pleasure!
Yeah, picking them up from a chain is...well in most cases a bit anoying for me as well.
Wow, so helpful, thanks!!!
A great video, thank you!
I saw tutorials that show the needle hold only in parallel with the hook and trying that way it's very awkward for me. Your "vertical" holding is so much better. This little variation saved my day ;)
Ah...that's great to hear! I love saving ppl's days *grin*
Happy knitting :)
You are amazing THANK YOU
Norman,
Thank you for your easy to understand method of doing the provisional cast on. I am going to start a sweater and it calls for this cast on method.
awesome. have fun knitting your sweater!
Brilliant tutorial 👏
Thank you. Happy to hear that ☺️
I need to try this - looks like a lot fun
definitely! Let me know if you need any help :)
You're the best, I was worried. You give me hope🥴.
Thankyou thankyou, so glad I found your video, before doing this for the first time, less messing around, I was concerned my chain may end up to tight for my needle to pass through with the other traditional method.
Always hated doing provisional cast ons but your explanation is just so good
heh. thank you.. I actually kind of like them..but only with a crochet hook..all the other methods are really... ugh (for me)
Hello, I came upon your video on reviewing best knitting needles and loved it. I love your tutorials because you get right into it and I hope that other knitters learn from you as much as I have. Please start a video on attaching the sleeves to sweaters. Many podcasts on UA-cam teach a few steps, but not enough to finish attaching the sleeves. By the way, I learned to use double pointed needles from your video. I am not afraid anymore to knit in the round. Thank you.
it has been a glorious and inspiring learning trip with you since last year. Today, I started the provisional cast on in the round with double pointed needles to knit the beanie 2.50mm needles. It was challenging, but I love challenging myself with new techniques. I did it! Hooray!
Thank you for your feedback and so happy to hear you like my videos. And even happier to hear you mastered DPNS! made my day.
as for shrugs and cardgans. I'll think about it. Though I do have to be honest with you. I'm not the shrug knitter :P
Norman, yours is the best video on the provisional cast on. You went into proper detail and gave all the options. Vielen Dank fuer alles!
Wow, thank you, Marjorie! exceedingly happy to hear that.
@@NimbleNeedles You're welcome. I like to give credit where credit is due. I looked at a bunch and yours was the best.
@@MarjorieGoodwin well...hard to contract that smile of yours. so thank you so much for your compliment!
Glad I saved this as I'm using it again. Thank you.
it's actually one of my favorit cast-ons myself
Norman -- you are a genius! I've been trying to do this type of cast-on method FOREVER and never got it until watching your video one time! Bravo! I did change one small thing that helped me. I am right-handed and knit English style. I found it easier to anchor a 14" knitting needle under my left arm pit to stabilize it while I cast on with the crochet hook. Thank you so much! Keep doing more videos -- you are a wonderful teacher!
It's my pleasure, Jan!
Really easy this way! Thank you so much, I was fighting whit other ways to do these!
Glad it helped!
I have been so intimidated by provisional cast-ons, but your video was so clear! I think it may have even improved my limited crochet skills as well 😂 Thank you!
awesome! And investing a bit time into crochet is really important. One of my next videos will be all about it :)
Thank you so much for this video. It was really helpful and I appreciate your pragmatic "whatever it takes" approach. As you say sometimes the chain doesn't come out smoothly.
When it comes to provisional cast-ons I have to be pragmatic...it's the one thing that too often defeats me in knitting.
Excellent, thank you so much!
Always a pleasure ☺️☺️
EPIC THANK YOU
Thank you. This is so easy to do! I think I did this on one project many years ago but had forgotten how.
Glad it was helpful, Ruth. And yeah, it super easy
Es muy amable, su aportación me ha sido de gran utilidad. También le deseo un excelente día. Gracias y saludos.
Brilliant! Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Excellent, I'm starting a shawl that calls for this technique. I knew to come to you.
glad you found something!
Hello 👋very informative lesson 👌💐🙏
Many many thanks
Thank you, I found your cast on was so easy to follow. I find I need to place markers if my stitch count is over 50, just to keep me organized.
I do that as well but after 20 already 🤣
Hi Norman My provisional cast on I used is chain the amount of stitches I need and few extra and pick up stitches from the pearl bump from the bottom of the crochet chain. I find it faster and easier than crochet on the knitting needle. Though I'm glad I learn a new way from you. Thanks
yeah, i showed this technique in this video here: ua-cam.com/video/rZw-o98yPm0/v-deo.html
Grüß Gott Norman!!! You're so good at explaining things thank you!!
Awesome! Dankeschön...and what a fantatic user name :)
@@NimbleNeedles i see you're a person of great taste
New to your mailing list, and I wanted to stop by and say hello! Nice Channel!!!
Alraeece, your support is much appreciated! thank you so much :)
Excellent
Thank you so much Maria! 😀
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I am learning so much from you!
Tysm 🌻
you're welcome! :)
Lol - counting past 100 is hard.
Knitting has taught me that I can't be trusted to correctly count to fourteen. 😂
Thank you, Norman, for another very informative video.
I want to try this.
it's a very useful technique :)
Thank you for this video. It’s very clear and I’ve just used this to cast on for Purl SoHo’s Dumpling Bag KAL. Hope you don’t mind me sharing this link to my Ravelry account for future reference.
not at all!
New sub and new knitter here from the Andes mountains in northern Chile. I have not started knitting yet but have ordered a pair of needles so that I can learn. Yours seems to be the only knitting channel that makes me believe this is possible ❤
Anyway, stupid question: why does the crochet cast on need to be provisional, especially if the cast off (in my case) will be crocheted? Also, if one does a provisional cast on, what does one do once the needle is in those stitches after the provisional stitches are removed?
I can't believe that I am binge watching knitting videos 😂 I just love how you are so thorough and encouraging. God bless you.
heh! Welcome to the knitting club.
As a beginner, I don'T think you should start with a provisional cast-on. Retrace your steps and start with something simple.
Later on, you can of course, use this crochet cast on to start your knitting using the same color and without unraveling it.
Your instructions were very clear and easy to follow. I have used this method on a project because the pattern called for it. Is there a reason why this would be used as opposed to any other cast-ons? How is this different from crochet cast on? Thank you.
Well, u only use it so you can pick up stitches. Other than that, there no real advantage to other provisional cast ons. I just find this one is the easiest
i have been a knitter for 70 years+ (my nanny taught me when I was about 4!!!)...i have never heard of provisional cast-on....so I would like to ask why you would need this? I have been trying to think about why it would be needed? And I agree with the responses; you are very good with your explanations and details, I have learned some tricks even (I have always been able to knit intricate patterns and love them, the more intricate, the better....just now trying my hand at entrelac!! next: two sided knitting!!), and I have learned new ways to work stitches and patterns that are easier than I was doing!!
well..whenever you want to knit in both direction. say you want to knit lined mittens, or a hat that is lined with a softer material. Or you want matching bind-offs. It's actually one of the most versatile and important knitting techniques and I start 50% of my projects with it :)
this video is very good. Would you mind if i reference it in a pattern i am working on?
Not at all! 😎
Very interesting technique I can’t wait to try it , but would love to know where you got those lovely multicoloured needles 😊
Hey Anita. those are the knitter's pride dreams. you can get them. Here's a link to etsy: bit.ly/3fVnlQ6
Do you think I should put those links in the video description?
@@NimbleNeedles I think you should put the links in the description as well as Amazon links. It will help support your channel when people purchase through them. Also include the stork scissors - they are cute.
I've never seen this technique before and it looks very interesting. What I'm wondering is after you pick up the first row and remove the cast-on row, what do you do to finish the edge? Thanks!
Anything...knit in the other direction, do a double hem..that sort of things
I have to do the provisional cast on and then join in the round this is for a cowl knit on a long circular needle
Do you have a video of the Kitchener stitch …ty
Sure. Just search through my channel (or my blog) - available on both
Question for you: When I start knitting, does it matter which end of the provisional cast-on that I start with? Thank you so much for the video!
to be quite honest, I never tried knitting across it the other way. But I don't see how it could matter. Just don't mix knit and purl stitches in the first row. that will take a scissor to unravel.
Norman, will you recommend adding an additional stitch to join in the round for a provisional cast on? Thanks
no, i typically don't do this. I mean it depends on what you wanna do, but typically that stitch will be hidden somewhere under a seam or I whatnot. I haven't studied this too the fullest to be honest, but I usually just knit aross and I couldn't think of a single instance it bothered me. I do however, more the beginning to the middle of a needle. I got a headband pattern here on youtube where I show you how I do it.
thxs for the nice and clear explanation. But... Where do we go from here?
Eh? You follow your pattern 😅
Do you count the slip knit as your first stitch? Thanks, Norman.
not sure I understand this question?
Do you need to always do knit across after the chain's done? I'm trying to make the double cuff socks and it starts with a rib pattern in round 1, it seems to be quite difficult to pick purl stitches up in between with knit stitches
no, you don't. BUUT if you do a ribbing across, you won't be able to undo the chain as easily anymore and you will have to pick it apart with the help of a scissor.
@@NimbleNeedles Thanks for your reply, you're the best
Hello Norman! Is it possible to do the provisional cast on with every other stich type? Not only garter stich
sure..just make sure to knit across the first row. don't mix knit and purl stitches or it will be very difficult to unravel
@@NimbleNeedles aaaa that is the secret😂! Thank you soo much, you are the best💚🍀