Summer Skills Series: Provisional Cast On

The Summer Skill Series is designed to provide you with practical and interesting techniques to improve your knitting skill set - 2021 is the year of cast on! These bite-sized classes focus on improving little details which make huge impacts on the quality and range of your knitting.

Provisional Cast On
Patterns knit from the top-down as well as multiple different hem types utilize a provisional cast on. All provisional cast on using waste yarn to create a row of stitches that are later unravelled and the now live stitches are picked up. This technique is increasingly popular in patterns today.