Tutorial: Disappearing loop cast-on

Tutorial: disappearing loop cast-on

With a disappearing loop cast on, you can start a circular piece of knitting in the middle.

Make a large loop.

Hold the loop firmly between the thumb and the index finger of your right hand, together with a double pointed needle.

Insert your left thumb in the loop and hold the yarn tight.

Insert the tip of the needle inside the loop…

…all the way under the strands…

… and bring back a loop throught the large loop (the one you hold with your thumb)= the first stitch.

Make a second “stitch” by making a yarn over.

Close-up: it doesn’t really look like a stitch. Hold the “stitches” well between your fingers.

Make the third like the first one, inserting the tip of the needle inside the large loop and bringing back the loop.

Make the fourth stitch by making a yarn over and so on, until you have the required number of stitches. Just a few for the best results: here, 6 stitches. Look how the last yarn over barely looks like a stitch.

Here, you are usually told to even your stitches on double poointed needles adn knit the first round… and usually all the needles are falling out… Here is my little trick to avoid it: holding them tight between your fingers, slide the 6 “stitches” to the right side of the needle…