Text: The Periwinkle Dragon Purple dragon eye with yarn ball and text: Original knitting patterns by Carolyn Lisle Text: The Periwinkle Dragon Purple dragon eye with yarn ball and text: Original knitting patterns by Carolyn Lisle

Very Stretchy Cast On

This video tutorial demonstrates how to do Tillybuddy's Very Stretchy Cast On, which is excellent for hats, cuff-up mitts, and cuff-down socks.

Patterns that use this technique include:

Fire Rainbow Hat

Woman wearing bright purple hat with pompom and randomly-distributed rainbow sections.

Walk Without Rhythm Socks

Toe up view of feet wearing grey socks with rainbow speckles that have lines of diagonal elongated stitches in two columns.

Iralai Fingerless Mitts

Side view of hands holding a white mug and wearing dark purple fingerless mitts with bright green flecks in a twisting spiralling pattern.
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