How To Fix Your Cast On Edge ~ Fixing a Too Tight Cast On Edge In Knitting ~ Beginner Knitting

How many times have you made a project and your cast on row looks something like this? Where it is tight, it's not very flattering to your project, and you have no idea why it happened. I'm going to show you how to make the perfect cast on row every time so that your project looks great. But first be sure to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell because I'm doing a ton of knit series videos for beginners and if you want good looking projects I'm going to show you how to get them. So why do we get this super tight cast on edge and why is it not even? With the stitches that you're making, the long and short of it is that you're casting on too tight, but what does that mean and how do you fix it? So let's look at casting on. So when I am casting on, I have two Fingers, I'm doing the long tail cast on here, but this goes for just about any. You have your thumb yarn, which is your tail, and then you have your pointer finger, which goes to your yarn. And through the motions of thumb to pointer, you're creating these loops. So if I sit there and I keep them very close together, for this swatch, I have them right next to each other. I am not giving room For my stitches, my thumb yarn is what's giving space. So if I put these stitches right next to each other, and then I go to work into them, not only is it going to be hard to work into, but I haven't given space between each stitch so that the first row can spread out. So as you can see it's tight and then it spreads out. After a few rows it starts to become the size it should be but because I put those stitches so close together I don't get a nice edge. Here I spaced out my cast on nice and wide so that my first row It's much bigger and nicely spaced and even. But how do we give it that space? You know what you're supposed to do. You've heard it. You're supposed to put two needles together, right? So I'm going to take both of my needles and put... them together like this and then make my cast on. I can put them all nice and close together because it doesn't matter, right? I now have two needles creating all that space. When I'm ready, I pull one of them out and then I work into it. Well, if you're paying attention with the thumb and the finger, what did I just create height to? I created height to this yarn, my finger yarn. I did not create extra width with my thumb yarn. It is still close together. So what do you end up getting? The same exact thing, but with a taller first row. So all it does is it raises up your row because you now have an extra bit of yarn here, but still makes it completely squished together. So that is a total falsehood. Doubling your needles will never work. So instead, we're going to do the finger method. So we're going to use this finger, this pointer finger to make our stitches perfect. We're going to put it right next to the stitch we just made. And you're pretty much kind of feeling it on the ball. I don't know if you call the ball the pad of your finger. So you're placing it there. Then you're doing your long tail stitch. And you're leaving that much space. That seems like a lot, doesn't it? But that is going to give you this perfect edge. So then you come to the next one. And you can kind of squish them together. It doesn't matter. They're spaced out. They're good to go. Now you're going to come and stick your finger there for the next one. Tighten it down. Move it along. And you're going to keep those finger distances as you work this cast on. So I can sit there. There, and now you see. My thumb yarn, the loops at the bottom, are spread out, so when I make that first row, it is now nice and spread out. So what happens like if you make a couple tight ones and then you remember and then you're like oh wait let me spread them out it'll it'll work out you know right wrong you have to be consistent. Here I did them really close together and then I spread them out over here and you can see the difference it's tight and then it goes loose so you have to make sure that you're being consistent with those stitches and giving yourself lots of room. So that you have that bottom loop giving you lots of space for your stitches. So that is how you are going to make the perfect cast on row. So your projects are nice and wide and the same width from the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top. You might notice I have a garter edge on this and you know that's wrong. Why is it wrong? Go check out the last video I just posted and you'll learn. But I am Deja with Knit and Crochet. Be sure to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell for more useful tips on knitting, and thank you for watching.