Greetings fibernetters, Do you all have a favorite way to cast on and do you use it most of the time?
I spent two hours the other night trying different cast on methods from the Knitter's Handbook by Montse Stanley. Usually I use what she calls German cast on, or what E. Zimmerman calls long tail cast on. It it easy and works just fine but with circular knitting, the right side has a loopy appearance I have never liked. The wrong side, however, looks great. I must have tried eight different methods. Didn't much care for any of them. Too hard. Not right. Not even. Then it occurred to me to try a reverse of the German method. Took awhile to figure out and then to train my fingers, but finally got it and am so happy! The wrong side is now right. That night I began a sweater *for me* from my own naturally dyed, handspun wool. I have 16, one oz. skeins that were dyed with goldenrod, madder, indigo, logwood, osage orange bark, sumac berries, pokeweed berries and cochineal. Have been searching for some way to use so many different colored little bits since the Woolgathering and Natural Dye-In last September. The sweater ribbing is in a natural dark brown wool and the sleeves and body are being knit in a three-color helix spiral. One color is always the dark brown (for cohesiveness) and I am adding in the other colors in a regular pattern. It is so cool! The thin stripes of the different colors blend in interesting ways. Of course, it is an EZ circular knit sweater which is my favorite style. Oh, I have been using the homemade drum carder like mad! Thanks again, Holly, for the figure 8 tip! Nancy in southern Indiana To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
