You should make a video of just your hands knitting for an hour. Watching you knit is very relaxing.

This is the best tubular cast on method for 2x2 ribbing I have seen. You are a genius. Thank you so much

Thank you for that video. As an English knitter in both senses of the word, I find it extremely comfortable watching you.

As always, your videos are great. I love it when you have a tough stitch or the wrong marker. It's what we all do! Your patterns, by the way, are beautifully written, so your explanations carry through beautifully. Thanks!

Once again you’ve saved the day. I’m starting my first hat design and wanted to use this cast on. I never would have gotten it without your help. Thanks so much for a great tutorial. 🤓👍🏽

Apart from the fact that, as always, you have given us a great tutorial, I just love the new backdrop and natural lighting! Very fresh and bright.

Ok, I haven't actually TRIED this technique yet, but after watching what feels like hundreds of tubular cast-on tutorials, this is the first time where I feel like I understand what I'm doing!

Love the new space.... so soothing and complimenting to you!

Thank you Staci. I love watching your videos you make them completely easy to understand. Oh and you have such pretty nails!

Awesome tutorial! You are just amazing! Thank you! I followed step by step and the results were exactly as you demonstrated.

Love your videos! Clear, concise and fun to watch.

Thank you so much. I can't wait to try this technique! Love the new background, and your new outfit.

I have viewed 4-5 other videos for the tubular cast on. Yours was by far the BEST!! Thank you!

You changed your video background. I like it ❤ also love watching you knit. It's so fascinating

What a great tutorial! Very Pink is amazing. So easy to follow, good pace, and relatable. Wish I could knot as fast as you!

Have to say that I love your tutorials. They are so clear and easy to understand. I allways look after your tutorials if I need to now a technique.

You are the best at showing how something is done, you really simplified that for me. Thanks so much!

I have looked at every tubular cast on demonstration on KZfaq. Yours is absolutely the best. It works beautifully on my hat thank you very much.

Wow! This should be de riguer for all beginning knitters to learn. The result is so professional that it would inspire knitters for life! Many kind thanks!

You had me at "redesigned studio!" Great cast on instructions! I've seen the cast on in some European KZfaq channels, but haven't tied it because the instructions were difficult. Thanks for making it easy!

Never seen this technique before, mind officially blown!

Love the new set! So light and airy!

Loved that. Knit for years just starting to do in the round and socks not good enough yet to keep but will keep watching and learning 😀

I love your videos. I learned to knit from you! To your comment about how stockinette makes a ribbed cast on: when the four rows are folded, and the two needles are brought together, we are now looking at the back side of the stiches on the back needle. The stitches facing the knitter on the back needle are purl stiches. So we are knitting into the knit stiches from the front needle,, and purling into the purl stiches from the back needle.

I enjoyed watching that, you actually gave me an idea. At the moment I'm knitting a cowl, I'm half way through and I have a twist in it, that's ok but next time I could do the first few rows on straight needles and then join, at least then l would be able to see it more clearly. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

Love the new studio set!!!

Excellent tips! Thank you Stacy!

Cool cast on! Great result! Thanks. ❤️

I’m learning so ❣️much from your videos. Thank you 🙏

Magic! This was very helpful and clear, thanks!

Thank you. This helped so much AND I learned how to fix my twisted stitches in one step. As a new knitter, that was super useful!

WOW, neat cast on. I have heard about it but had never seen it. Definitely worth it. Thank you!!! ⛄️🤶🏻🎄

The best knitting videos....thanks.

A tip others might find helpful. For some reason this cast on edge isn't as stretchy at the 4 stockinette rows. You can fix this problem by working the stockinette section with a 0.5mm to 1mm bigger needle size and then switch to the actual size you need when you start the ribbing section.

Thank you for ur amazing techniques. I ve seen ur 1x1 rib tubular cast on but I feel we can even do this way as this is better

Always love your videos! Just heard about this cast on recently.

What a great tutorial! Thank you!

This would be a good cast on method for the Gnome Premie baby hat tutorial you have. I’m going to try it. Thanks for a clear tutorial with great lighting.

A lifesaver as always, thank you!

Thank you so much, You've been very helpful❣️

Love the new video background!

Love your tutorials very elegant

I love the new background

Hi Staci, First of all, I’d like to compliment you on your excellent videos. I have learnt so much from your clear, concise and elegant demonstrations and it is a delight to watch you knit. I recently learned your Double-thick hat cuff method and it turned out very well. It definitely looks really professional. I used Drops Nepal and 5mm needles, casting on 72 sts. I then thought I would try to do the tubular cast on, as demonstrated in this video. I cast on 36 sts on each needle and knit 2 sts from front needle and purled 2 sts from back need, as you show. However, the resulting 72 sts did not fit around my needles, even after struggling to rib a couple of rows. (I’m using Knit Pro needles each measuring 11.5 mm and a 37 cm long cord, which worked fine for the double-thick cuff). I can sort of see why this tubular is not as stretchy as the double-cuff and my question is really, is there a rule of thumb for a ratio of additional sts you need to cast on when changing from one method to the other? Would you be able to do a tutorial similar to the double-cuff one for a hat knitted using this method? Thank you so much again for sharing your knowledge.

You’re a ROCK STAR!!!!

Nice new setting and a great cast on :)

I actually was experimenting with this a several days ago. I tried method shown in the video first and I didn't like how the beginning of the first round looks. On another sample I started knitting in the round right away (plain stockinette stitch first 4 rounds) and then picked up stitches from provisional CO continuing the tubular CO as usual. It can be annoying to knit with all those needles in the same place, but it looks beautiful and it totally worth it in my opinion.

I was struggling with knitting the first row by alternating from the front needle and then the back needle. So, instead I slipped the stitches to a new needle, first from the front needles (the knit stitch) and then the back needle (the purl stitch). By doing this I was able to join the first K1, P1 round and avoid the huge jump from knitting the first round flat. It works great for me! With a little practice I should be able to do this cast on with ease. I plan on using it for all my hats.

Very clear video! Thanks so much.

First, thank you for the video! If I might add, I've found that joining in the round immediately on the first row instead of continuing to do 4 rows flat works a lot better for me. I end up knitting 4 rounds, then I pick up the provisional stitches with another needle on a longer cord then do the same step of folding them together to k2p2. This way, the seam is invisible to begin with. I am terrible at hiding a seam and this was my workaround!

Wonderful tutorial! Thanks 😊

The easiest one after watching 3 different videos. I cane back to this one

This is sooo much easier than another method I was using that involved yarn overs, slipped stitches, and transposing stitches. Thank you!

You are excelent teacher, thanks!!!

Thank you for sharing it is so helpful for me.

Nicely done!

Great video! super easy to follow

Great video,thank you😊

Thank you so much for this video.

Thank you. I’m going to be doing that from now on.

Thank you very much teacher ,good job

You are my angel. Thanks a lot for a great tutorial with a great result. I will use this method from no now. :)

Genius!! Thank You!!!

It's actually easier to make sure your knitting isn't twisted before joining in the round when you already have some knitting going.

what!? my mind is blown! thank you!

Thank you! Very good!

Lovely background

Holy Dooley! I wish I’d have seen this kind of cast on yesterday! I just cast on a pair of socks for myself and was just thinking gee i wish i could cast on in pattern..... I’d learned years ago some way but hadn’t remembered. Now this! Thanks so much!!!!! It looks so good! (This is Heidi here, using Jaana’s account teehee)

Thanks, you helped me a lot.

Well I wasn't expecting that!

I’m going to use this for my next project! It’s a lace cowl. The cast on has been bugging me for a week! Thanks.

"great video, thankyou!

Thank you so much 😊

I'm wondering if you have the bind off to match this cast on? Also beautiful fresh and clear new background! You should keep it! Thanks for all the very helping video!

Thank you, that was exactly the part that confused with, how to get that join to look nice! And most add, your video is spectacular, so nice and eqsy to follow, so good lightning, sound and well planed! When I first tried this the cast on did not stretch out as much as he rest of the knit. I wonder if that is by design and should I use a larger needle for the cast on? Tried it for arms and thinking about using it for a hat now.

Really interesting. I have just done a crochet hook provisional tubular cast on with the YO, K1 method. The rib slanted I think because the pattern asked me to start with knit but the YO, K1 technique means you should start with a purl. I will definitely try this method next time. Presumably 1x1 rib would work the same way. Thank you, Staci!

Hi Staci, thank you so much for this! I watched your video on the flat 2x2 CO and wondered if I could use this method for 2x2 rib that's divisible by 2 but not 4; ie it begins with 2 knits and ends with 2 knits, not 2 purls. Is there any way to do this, as 1/2 of that would necessarily be an odd number?

It is 2023 and I am still watching Pink

Roxanne Richardson, master knitter, has videos on how to splice cast-on rows so they precisely mimic the other stitches, where you can't discern there was ever a beginning/ending stitch

Can you do provisional cast on with magic loop?

I wonder if you have a tutorial for the Italian invisible cast on. It doesn't involve any scrap yarn. I love your tutorials and I would LOVE to see you do the Italian (or invisible) cast on.

This is great. Thanks. Do you have a tubular bind off?

Thank you.

To comment on what you said about the stockinette section in the beginning and the ribbing. I think it's because in a normal provisional cast on, like in the double thick hat cuff, you're knitting together two stitches into one. Whereas here, because you're doubling the number of stitches, you're also displacing the alignment of the work and then realigning it, which gives the ribbing. I mean, I'm honestly just guessing, but that's what it kind of looks like.

Thank you for such an easy explanation for this cast on method. This will now be my new go to for hats. Is there a way to do cast off that gives a nice finished edge that would compliment this cast on?

Thank you

Thanks!

Nice! I'm wondering if Judy's magic cast on would actually work for this instead having provisional stitches. Also, I will start a bottom-up sweater soon and I'd like to do a non-tail cast on. However, it is a twisted 1x1 rib (K1tbl, P1) for the bottom and cuffs. Would this work for that? Or should I just do an alternating cable cast on?

This is wonderful! I did a tubular cast on for a hat that called for 120 stitches (so 60 cast on). I was eventually able to complete it, but I had to use up 3 sets of needles connected together so they would be long enough that stitches wouldn't fall off (and to achieve a front needle, a back needle, and then the final needle that you start the ribbing onto). The whole thing looked beautiful in the end, but the process felt really wrong and took me hours to complete. This leads me to my question: Is the tubular cast on best for small projects? Do you have any tips for needle management to make this less cumbersome for a higher number of cast on stitches? Based on my description, was I doing something wrong? I would love to incorporate this into more projects, but it just felt like there should be a better way. Thank you!

So I kept wondering why I'd be 1 stitch shy every single time no matter how many times I counted to make sure I was getting the right amount on the initial cast on. Turns out I wasn't picking up that very first stitch that you said the yarn goes "straight through" at around 5:16. Ugh.

Would it be the same for the 1x1 rib? Maybe more grab 1 from the front then one from the back?

Can this work for a 1 x 1 tubular cast on in the round? I like it a little better than your method with the backwards loop provisional cast on.

Can you just do a Turkish cast on instead of fumbling with the scrap yarn?

Staci.. love your videos but I made a boo boo & not sure what I did wrong.. when I join in the round I’m starting with purl stitches not a knit stitch as you are. And the last stitches will be purl stitches… 🤪thanks for all your help

I have been a fan for many years - best knitting videos out there!! I wonder if you have any say regarding idiotic ads that just interrupt your lesson whenever! Extremely disruptive when learning a new technique… I shant stop watching but thought I’d ask : )

Thank you for teaching me so many knitting techniques! Love your clear instructions every time! A question to this one: can I convert this one to 4x4 rib by doing k4, p4 when combining the stitches from the two separate needles to one needle? Thnx, Judith

Would it help to add one extra stitch to the count and then when you join in the round, you knit the first two stitches together? I do that for 1 x 1 rib and it makes a nice finish

Hello! Thank you for the video, it’s well explained. My pattern sent me here, the beanie no1 from myfavourite knitwear. It’s a Hat knitted in fisherman rib. If I don’t want to do 2x2 ribbing like you did. here, but fisherman rib instead- what do I have to do differently??

If you add another row or two of stockinette stitch whould the border be even streachier?

Could you do the same thing with 1x1 ribbing?