[Nfb-krafters-korner] I'm home!

Tue Nov 22 00:19:29 UTC 2016

Thank you much, Annette. Will try when I get caught up. 
Ramona

On Nov 21, 2016 3:16 PM, Annette Carr via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> With the Knit Cast on, you do the following:
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> Place a slip stitch on your left needle.
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> Insert right needle into the slip stitch as you would when knitting a stitch, and complete the knit stitch, but leave that original stitch on the left needle.
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> Slip the stitch from the right needle to the left needle.  I think this is done Purlwise.  However, I have done it Knitwise as this is faster since your right needle is ready to create the next stitch.  Keep in mind that slipping the stitch Knitwise can create a tight cast on row if you are not careful. 
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> Continue knitting into the stitch closest to the tip of the left needle until you have casted on the desired number of stitches.
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> It is recommended that when you work the first row after the cast on, that you knit into the back of the cast on stitches.
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> The Cable Cast on starts out just like the Knit Cast On to create the first 2 stitches.  To create the 3rd stitch and all remaining stitches:
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> Insert your right needle in the space between the first and second stitches on your left needle from front to back.
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> Wrap the yarn around the tip of the right needle as if to knit, and draw the yarn up into a new stitch as you would when knitting.
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> Slip the newly created stitch from the right needle to the left needle Purlwise.
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> Continue creating stitches in this way until you have the desired amount.
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> HTH,
> Annette
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> Hi,
>
> I start with a simple slip knot, and use it as my first stitch.  Then I knit and put the new stitch onto the left needle.  Then you use that to knit the next stitch and slip that onto the left needle.  You do that until you have all of your stitches knitted onto the left needle.
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> Bernice and the sweet Octane.
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> I didn't learn to do them. One lady said she knits the first row as she casts on and starts with the end so you don't have to guess how much yarn you will need for the cast on end. If somebody knows that method, I would like to learn it. Part of learning is knowing what questions to ask. Isn't it?  
> Ramona
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> On Nov 21, 2016 5:55 AM, Dixie via Nfb-krafters-korner <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> > Oh it sounds like it was just wonderful!
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> > I would love to hear more about those cast-on variations.
> >
> > Dixie
> > @-> ~ <-@
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> > Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] I'm home!
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> > I am back from my dream-of-a-lifetime cruise through the Panama Canal. I won't report on much, but there were some very interesting things in crafting that I thought this group might like to know about. There was a meeting scheduled on sea days each morning for knitters and crafters, and I met about fifteen women, many very versatile and all using different techniques. Since they came from Canada, Britain, Australia and more, that is not surprising. I learned about cast on methods I had never heard of before.
> >
> > There was also a box-making class—origami of course, and the next day we decorated the lids to the boxes. Again, I met interesting people.
> >
> > Then we took a jewelry-making tour in Cartagena Columbia where they used emeralds directly from a local mine. We were instructed by students at the school and made earings, pendants, rings, and bracelets. Not polished emeralds, but very beautiful. I got a picture of myself operating the machine that presses bars of heated silver into smaller and longer bars until they are wires about fifteen feet long.
> >
> > In Costa Rico I found a pair of earings made of palm leaves and saw the tools they use for carding wool. We saw plants whose leaves are used for making rubs and other medicines, ate cactus, watched tortilla-making and on and on. And that does not count the day we went through the Canal. 
> > If people want to hear more about the trip, I would be glad to do a Monday night chat.
> >
> > Ramona
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