hI CAN ANY TELL ME HOW TO DO A 3 NEEDLE CAST ON? OR DIRECT ME TO THE VIDEO???
THANK YOU
ELLIE:knitting:
hI CAN ANY TELL ME HOW TO DO A 3 NEEDLE CAST ON? OR DIRECT ME TO THE VIDEO???
THANK YOU
ELLIE:knitting:
I’ve never heard of a 3 needle cast on. A 2 needle cast on is the knit or cable co, which you’ll find videos for in the Caston part of View Videos.
THANK YOU SUE…I HAVE JUST JOINED THE "MYSTERY STOLE 4 KAL AND THEY RECOMMEND THE “3 NEEDLE CASST ON” I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF IT EITHER…GUESS I WILL JUST HAVE TO GO TO YAHOO AND CHECK OUT THE SITE. THANKS ANYWAY…
ELLIE
Please don’t use the Capslock Ellie, it’s harder to read posts that are all caps. And it’s considered yelling, too.
It could be that you might use 3 dbl pointed needles to CO if it’s starting in the center and knit outward to the edges. I do this for things done in the round. But your best bet would be to ask the KAL group to explain it.
there is a form of the tubular cast on that uses 3 needles.
Cast on 1/2 of the total, using a simple cast on . (use needle A the largest)
knit a few rows of stocking knit (needle B the intended size to work with)
Pick up stitches from cast on edge (use needle C the smallest)
hold needles (C in back B in front–with the KNIT side of the stocking knit facing you (and needle B facing you)
Knit 1 from needle B (on to a second B needle)
Purl (or knit) one from needle C on to second B needle)
repeat these two steps till all stitches have been knit (you should end with a B needle stitch (an odd number!)
since when you pick up stitches from a cast on edge, you get 1 fewer.
[B]
this is the ONLY 3 needle cast on I know.[/B] (and i know lots of cast on’s)
Now days, i do a tubular cast on differently.
(there are to my knowledge 5 or 6 (depending on which way you count) ways to do a tubular (also known as an italian) cast on.
[I]you could count a magic (use 2 needle to do a magic cast on) and then knit the stitches together onto a third needle as yet another way to do a tubular/3 needle.
[/I]Or as Suzeeq suggest, it could just be a circular cast on that starts using just 3 of (4/5) dpn’s
Without seeing the pattern, I have 2 guesses:
I googled the phrase “3 needle cast on” and came up with 6 hits, 5 of which were along the lines of “with a size 3 needle, cast on”, and the 6th referred to my 2nd suggestion, above.