Cast On, Bind Off (38 page)
Authors: Leslie Ann Bestor
Holding the knitting needle in your left hand and the crochet hook in your right hand, bring the yarn behind the needle.
Reach with the crochet hook over the top of the needle, grab a loop of yarn, and pull it through the loop on the crochet hook. This is 1 stitch.
Move the yarn behind the needle again.
Repeat steps 3 and 4 until you have cast on the required number of stitches.
Cut the yarn and pull through the last stitch. Tie a knot in the end of this yarn so you know which end to unravel from.
Knit with your working yarn into the stitches you've cast on with the waste yarn.
Picking Up Live Stitches
When you are ready to knit from the cast-on edge, undo the knotted tail end of the crochet chain and gently pull the chain out, slipping the live stitches onto a needle. I do this slowly, a few stitches at a time, transferring the open stitches onto my knitting needle.
This is another way of doing a Provisional Crochet Cast On
. You begin by crocheting a chain, usually with more stitches than you need to cast on. You then knit into the bumps on the back of the crochet chain. It can be tricky to locate the bumps in the back of the chain, but if your chain is long enough it won't matter if you miss a few.
Extras
Smooth waste yarn; crochet hook one or two sizes larger than the knitting needle size required for the project
