My pattern says to work the pattern between the two halves of the poncho I’m making, then cast on 32 sts (I will be joining the two halves after I cast on the sts.). Cast on each st by working a M1R and giving it an extra twist before putting it on the left-hand meedle.
I don’t understand how to cast on by working M1R. I watched Amy’s video and to M1R is done between two sts.
Jenny
M1 away is a backward loop increase, could they perhaps want you to do a backward loop cast on (though an odd way to phrase it)? Don’t know about that R after it though, and backward loop cast on is pretty loose, I think.
I’ve heard backward loop referred to as M1, also. I’m not sure about the extra twist, but I guess you could slip it off your thumb, transfer it back to the left needle and slip it back to the right needle again, twisted.
It can be loose, but if you’ll be picking up stitches around that edge later, the loose stitches would be covered. You could also do one of the other one-strand cast on methods to make those stitches.