I've only just started knitting but i've found sooooo many confusing and needlesly complicated instructions for this long tail cast. thank you for this simplified version that works so well

Casting on like this (like my grandmother used to) has been a hidden secret in my mind for about 25+ years since my grandma taught me knitting as a kid! She would always cast on for me. I finally decided to pick up knitting again and I cant believe I know how to do this now! Thank you for your clear video!

I love the "hack" of wrapping it around the needle to get the desired length ... I am attempting to do a blanket that calls for casting on 124 stitches. I was dreading figuring out the math for that. Your method is so much easier. Thank you!

I keep coming back to this video every single time I’m wanting to start a knitting project with long tail cast on. She gives clear directions and tells you exactly why you want to have certain placements with the yarn.

Great video! I LOVE that you got right to the point (no yammering about where the dog is, doing laundry, etc.). And your slow movements as you demonstrated each step were fantastic! Your video has to be the best one out there for demonstrating this cast on! Thanks so much for taking the time to help us!

I knit so rarely that I always forget how to cast on, and i always come back to this video.⭐️

First video I've seen where someone explains how to determine the length of the "longtail". Thank you! Awesome instructions!

I have watched at least 10 videos trying to figure this out and I watch yours 2 times and get it. Thank you!

easiest explanation I've seen. I've always "knitted" my cast on. It makes a great finish edge but it's not nearly as stretchy as other cast on methods I've read about. So, glad you took the mystery out of this for me.

ive seen several ways to do this type of cast on, and ive always had trouble figuring it out. while watching this video, i successfully completed my first long tail cast on. thank you!!

So much yes. you're spectacular in your video teaching technique. I can crochet like nothing else but always had a hard time catching on to knitting...two sticks...what is this madness?? Until now the skill has evaded me, no matter how many videos I suffered through. You, my lovely individual, have changed that. Thank you ever so much! 12 million gold stars for you.

this is probably the only tutorial for the long tail cast on I've actually been able to understand

Fascinating - been knitting for 50 years and have never learned the long-tail cast on!

thank you! My grandma’s used to teach me to knit, one of them lived really close and the other 3 hours away. when the one who lived really close died, i couldn’t knit as much because i wasn’t the best at it without assistance. i decided to get back into it and this has really helped me :D

I have been struggling to learn to knit for so long. This video was PERFECT! Slow, clear instructions with an easy to follow narrator. Great job Davina!

oh man thank you for this, i'm a beginner knitter and this is the first video out of about half a dozen that actually made me understand what i was supposed to do with this method

Ty ty ty! I am a crocheter learning how to knit. I watched a lot of videos on how to cast & wanted to throw my needles away. So happy I found your easy & helpful video. You got right to it…showed it all clearly & easily. Ty again!

Thanks for explaining that the long-tail yarn faces you, and the ball yarn is in the back! That was the info I was looking for.

First video I have seen where someone actually shows me how to hold my yarn for this type of cast on. Everyone else just says start with a sling shot and then grab their yarn and also nobody ever told me how to figure out the length of the yarn I need. Thank you. I can't tell you how many video's I've watched to try and learn this. I had it down pat after watching your video just a few times. Very well done.

Great video! I was able to pick it up pretty quickly. My only suggesting is that reiterating that the long tail should always be looping over your thumb would be super helpful. Once I figured that out I was going along great. Thanks again!

God this was an amazing tutorial, thank you so much! So nicely paced for someone who has never held knitting needles before, and was trying to learn alone. Thank you again!!

Don't pay any attention to the negative comments ... you did an amazing job in explaining this and mine turned out great. One thing I wanted to mention and that was how to determine the length of the long tail. My project called for 225 cast on stitches and I found it a lot easier to determine the length I needed by doing the math calculations which were easy to do. I found a tutorial for this on the internet. Thanks again for the great tutorial!

I learned to knit sitting across from my grandmother. She is right handed I am left handed. But reversed, in my head, what you were doing and finally remembered how to do it. Your precise actions and instruction is very well done. Thank you!

Thank you so much, this is the first video that I watched that showed the long tail cast on in a way that I could pick it up quickly. Some people can knit fast but it's like they forget what it is like to be a beginner; and some people can teach knitting....thank you for being able to teach.

Thank you so much. Techniques of knitting, are much easier today than 30+ years ago. Thank God that I am getting caught up, I have been knitting on and off for 54 years. I think you are a magnificent knitting educator instructor. Thank you for all that you do.😂🥰😘🌺🌹💐🙋🏽‍♀️

She's one of the best out there demonstrating the long tail cast on. Hope you keep on demonstrating knitting stitches such as decreasing, changing colors of yarn etc.... Thanks for helping us!

Thanks for this. It took me a couple tries to get the first one, but then it just clicked.

Thanks for this. I've avoided this cast on like the plague because it just didn't make sense. This was straightforward and easy to understand.

I have been trying to do this cast on for the past 3 days without success, using many different videos. Thanks to you I have finally mastered it. Great demontration.

This is such a good tutorial, I haven't watched you in years because I was busy on my career but about 10 years ago I was deeply into all crafts and have missed all of them and recently have returned to knitting especially for doll garments. It was funny I picked up needles to cast on but I felt lost somehow there was a loop missing haha, and went back and watched this and it all cam back like riding a bike. thank you!!

I've been knitting for 2 years and used the long tail cast on frequently but never felt happy with it. This video is fantastic! Taking the slipknot off and turning it so the long tail is facing you is a complete game changer - thank you! ❤

Thank-you! Thank-you! Thank-you! I’ve been knitting for over 40 years and have always had a problem with casting on. After watching your video once, I am now a lot mor3 confident and proficient,

This was awesome!!! Thank you so much! Me, watching it first time: OH MY GOSH! WHAT MAGIC IS THIS? Me, watching it the second time, and trying it myself. Holy Toledo. This is amazing. I love this cast on method! It's so soothing and meditative.

Thank you for making this so simple! I've got two down and 114 to go... I'll be a pro by the end!

SO clear! Thank you! During the Covid lockdown I am collecting bits of fleece from brambles and fencing on my daily walks, collecting dyestuff, making dyes, mordanting, dyeing, carding, spinning, plying....and finally knitting a beanie. I've done everything but learning to knit - thank you, I think I can start now!

I haven't knitted in a while so I decided to view a little refresher course. THiS is the absolute BEST tutorial I've found!

This is so awesome! I tend to be a tight knitter, so I love how this makes it easier to control the tension of the cast-on row. It is so much easier to knit into this than easy cast-on. Thanks for this.

You show us newbies such an easier way to begin knitting. Thank you so much. I'm watching you... a LOT!!!

Best cast on video I've found. I haven't knitted in about ten years & somehow forgot how to use this long tail method, thanks to your precise tutorial, I now recall the motions!!

I’ve taken up knitting after years of letting my needles idle. This was the perfect refresher course! Thanks!

I watched umpteen videos before I came across yours, and was almost about to give up. This video was the best, it gave me confidence to let go of the yarn due to your explaining process and watching you “clamp down”.This was a lifesaver! I’m so grateful

Thank you so much, Davina. You explained this so well and gave me plenty of time to get my arthritic fingers in the right spot. Amazingly my memory kicked in and I remembered that this is what my grandmother taught me over 50 years ago. Thank you also for the trip down memory lane. Before I found you i had watched others and they just rushed through and didn't explain how their hands changed, so if you're new or haven't knitted in half a century - Davina is the best!

Thanks for the explanation. Your video was so much easier to follow than other videos.

This tutorial is so very clear and slow enough to be entirely useful. And I looked at many to try to understand how to do it. Thank you!

You truly an amazing teacher. I hadn’t picked up my knitting needles in many years and it was as if I had forgotten how to knit properly, you have added back the zest to my life. 👏

Wow, I find the hardest part of knitting so far to be the casting on. You made it so clear, Ty!

I learnt almost all of my knitting basics from you. I've seen a lot of knitters use this cast on but I didn't know that this one itself is the famous longtail cast on. I saw a different video showing this cast on in a very complicated manner that I couldn't catch on to until I found your video and I did it perfectly in a minute. I learned my first ever cast on from you, it was the single cast on method and now this is the second one.

I haven’t knitting in… 10 years? Started with this video and got it down so quickly, it blew my mind. Awesome tutorial. Thank you!

Thank you! I’ve watched hundreds of videos trying to learn the long tail cast on but yours was the only one that I could actually do it with. I’m so happy. Thanks again.

thank you so much for showing it at slow mode!! i finally understood how to properly do it

I looked at several videos about this subject and yours was the easiest to follow. I appreciated the slow pace you used so as to really see the details. I am, able to do it now!!!!! Thank you!

This video is amazing! I watched SIX other videos to try and learn this cast-on with no luck. The clear instructions and great demonstration, got it on the first try!!! Thank you so much ♥️

I am new to knitting & found this demo clearly shows the steps to take. The last step, getting the right hole was tricky until I watched this video. Thank you! 😊

Wow, you shared this wonderful tutorial almost a decade ago and it is still just as useful and clear as the day you made it. Thank you so much!❤

Thank you so much for this video! I have been knitting for years and have never been able to do this cast on, but I have been able to avoid having to use it because I never really make clothes. Today I decided to make a hat for the first time and couldn't avoid having to learn it anymore. Your video was so easy to follow and made it seem so simple!

I am a beginner, watching this in 2023! I am really glad that I found your video. :D

Thank you!!! When I was fist looking at tutorials, I had NO CLUE how to do this!

This was an amazing video! I have been knitting for 2 years now and somehow the long tail cast on has remained a mystery to me despite looking at different videos. You explained everything so clearly! I just wanted to thank you for finally helping me GET THIS long tail cast on. No more easy cast on for me ;)

This is wonderful! Thank you for explaining this super simply and slowly. Lots of "beginner" oriented videos still gloss over some of the basic motions, since it's easy for them· but it's not for me. Thanks for explaining this so well!

Thank you so much for this video! Long-tail cast-on has always been somewhat of a mystery to me... now I'm not confused anymore about this method! Much appreciated - :) xx

Best video available to explain this technique. Nice and slow, enough repetition. You cover the easy way to measure the tail. I watched so many, and yours taught me the most -- thanks so much!

Thanks for the reminder. I want to knit some Sox for my girls but haven't knit a sock in over 40 years. This will make a huge difference ❤

I haven't knitted since my grandmother taught me as a child and I just recently got back into it. I guess knitting isn't like riding a bike because I had forgotten everything she taught me including how to cast on. I came across a video on how to do the easy cast on method (short tail) but after trying it that method seemed different from what I remembered. After a ton of videos showing the easy method I came across your video and this is the method I remember my grandmother teaching me. Thanks for the very detailed instructions on how to do this! I didn't realize there were different ways to cast on! LOL!

i just went to a class at Fleece 'n' Flax in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. This is the way i was shown today how to cast. I lost my memory of one of the steps when I got home, so I wet look'n on youtube. This is the way my teacher, chris, taught me today. I liked him so much! Thank you for your amazing videos. I will watch all of the knitting. :) You have a good teaching voice too; it's happy and pleasant to listen to.

Yay! Thank you for teaching me the longtail cast on! Have watched so many videos but finally came across this and you've explained it so well that I've got it, at last! Thank you!!

Ty so much for such an AMAZING learning video. I taught myself to crochet when I was around 8 years old but could never figure out knitting. And the few times I tried to learn it from someone they would show the technique way to fast and/or become irritated with my lack of skills. I'm extremely sensitive so when I'm around people who are angry, irritated or hostile in ANY way I become a nervous wreck and I cannot function in a hostile environment, so I gave up. However during the COVID lockdown I started to learn as much as I could from these amazing KZfaq videos 💕😀. It's as if I found the magic lamp on how to learn to do ANYTHING! Now there are SO MANY different videos for each new hobby especially for knitting, but I have to tell you that this particular video is simply the BEST video I have ever watched, explaining how to do the long tail cast on. Not only did I learn to do the cast on the first time I tried, but so did my 7yr old autistic daughter whom I hadn't realized was watching the video over my shoulder...lol. She has plastic knitting needles she got for Christmas this year and was following along. When I turned around she had already cast on 19 loops! Ty again!!!!🌸💕

This helped me so much with making a long tail cast on, and I loved how you went through it to make sure we understood what we're doing. Thank you!

this was a great tutorial. I have tried to learn this many times, and have to look it up each time. Today I feel like with your explanation, It may be stuck in my head!

Love this tutorial! This is the one I keep returning to every time I want to do a long tail cast on. I really appreciate your method to estimate the length of tail required. Thank you!

I watched about 3 videos prior to this one, trying to teach the same thing, which I struggled to follow, even slowed down. This video is perfect and easy to watch and practice as you go. I can now cast on using the long tail method, thank you!

Thank you so much! You are an absolute lifesaver! I was using the Boye " I Taught Myself Knitting" book, and I understood everything (mostly) up until the "put it back through the loop" part. Illustrations are terrible. Actually I've had a hard time learning to crochet too -- for one reason. I can't seem to keep track of my yarn. Which is a huge reason I like this video. Unlike other videos I've seen, you make it simple and easy to understand what is happening with the yarn and needle. Seriously, I was ready to pop a blood vessel. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Thank you for this very slow, repeated and repeated, explained over and over instruction. You made it very easy to learn.

Hooray ... someone who showed how to slowly & clearly. Thank you so much! NOW I get it! 😆

So many methods for doing a long tail cast-on are so irritating, fidgety and time consuming (constantly changing hands, etc.,) that I’ve always hated it. You taught me to love it! Your method is so fluid, fast and fun. And both your tutorial and your videography are brilliant, so informative and enjoyable. Thanks very much!

I looked at several sets of instructions, and this is the one that finally made sense to me and worked!! Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Very clear video. This is much easier when you actually do it with the needles. Your step-by-step will be most helpful.

Thank you for making the viedo straight to the point, step by step sequential. You were very easy to follow and I love the tip about getting your left hand used to grabbing the yarn to prepare for the loop.

I am getting back into knitting after a very long absence. I’m even having to relearn casting on. What a good clear instructor!

Thank you so much for showing this so slowly and clearly, being a mature lady who hasn't knitted since a young girl, I find circular needles so hard to cast onto, I never thought I would ever manage this method and thanks to you I have. Much appreciated 👍🏻🙏🏻

Wow I have watched many MANYYYYYYYY videos because I just couldnt understand and this video here had good explanation, good camera work, ahowing close up, explaining some things twice. And much easier wayyy of explanation. I still cant believe that I did the long tail. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I have struggled with this cast on for a while now. With your video, played on half speed I mastered it right away! Thank you!

I tried several videos/explanations for long tail cast on and couldn’t get it at all. This one was brilliant and after replaying a couple of times and practising I got it!! So clear, slow and simple. Thanks!

I watch this video every time I start a new project 😍 I can never remember which side the long tail should face 😂 Thank you so much ❤

Making a loop first instead of looping around the yarn helped so much, I was so confused trying to figure this out. Thank you so much!!

Thanks for the video! I've watched like 5 other videos and this is the only one that goes through everything in detail!

Thank You Very Much! I got the hang of it just by watching you once. I have been trying this unsuccessfully for years. Thank You so much

The first time this method made sense to me! Thank you for teaching me something I thought I'd never figure out. It's so easy to me now!

I’m today years old when I learnt that this was a casting on method. 🤯🤯🤯 I’ve been knitting since I was a little girl when I begged my nan to teach me, my mind is blown. I wish she was alive so she could learn this method as well.

the only person so far i have been able to follow and grasp the stitch ....thank you brilliant teacher

The Sheep & Stitch tutorials are so helpful. I would never be able to concentrate on something that feels very complicated with out easy, specific steps with no other banter. Thank you for being concise, steady, repeating the steps, and doing so slowly, several times. I repeated portions of this video as I was doing a 123 stitch cast on - haha what am I thinking? Thank you for such wonderful tutorial videos.

Yay!! I can’t thank you enough for this video 🙏🏽 I had heard about long tail casting and wanted to try it. I kept getting it wrong LOL - it can truly be confusing. Your video, explanation, demo and calm voice put me on the right track. So a huge thank you ☺️

i love your videos, i am a total beginner and they are extremely helpful and clear in the instructions. I knitted as a child and was hopeless but feel better about giving it a go in my later years!

After watching what seems like 400 videos on how to do this, this was the only that helped me! Thank you!

Davina! Awesome tutorial! Thank you! I also loved the tip at the beginning on how to determine the length of the tail needed for casting on. I'm not sure but I think this cast on method will also give me the nice even cast on edge that I'm looking for! No more messy first row look! Praise Yah and Amen!

Finally a long tail cast on I could follow! Thank you very much.

Hey! My daughter is making me a scarf and she forgot how to cast on. This helped her a lot!! Thank you sheep & stitch for making these easy to follow videos!❤🎉

Hello! I just want to say that you are an excellent teacher. You explain all concepts very clearly and i love all your videos. I almost gave up knitting thinking i will never get this until i came across your tutorial. thank you so much!

Clear Instructions, presented slowly and lots of repetition - Just what I needed to understand this - Awesome! Thank you!!!

Thank you! Picking up knitting a after about 20 years. I’m an avid crocheted now and want to be able to add knitting to my skill set. This video was very helpful!

🙌🙌🙌🙌 THANKYOU!! This is a great cast on. I love the fluid movement & rhythm you get into, especially casting on a lot of stitches. I have learnt this before, but it's the kind of thing that if you haven't done it for years & you go to pick up your needles you need a refresh .. well some of us do anyway ;) Thanks again, I look forward to more of your tutorials :))😊👍✨