Two-Color Italian Cast On Tutorial.

Let's learn the two color Italian tubular cast on for brioche knitting. I'm going to show you in the round. You can also do this cast on with flat brioche, but it creates this seamless edge that's just really nice and smooth. I'm going to show you with two colors of fingering weight yarn for the billowing brioche hat. These are my two colors and start by making a slip knot with both yarns together Like this. Just a loose slip knot on the needle and do the cast on with a needle that is at least one or two sizes smaller than your main working needle so that your cast on doesn't flare out. You want it to be nice tight and tidy for the cast on. So if you're a loose knitter go down two needle sizes than what you're going to use as your main needle later. Get the tails that are connected to your yarn balls in the long tail slingshot position like this. And you want the main color on your index finger. That's going to be the color that falls in front for the knit stitches, and the color on your thumb is the background color. That's going to be purled later. So the foreground main color here is this cream, and this darker green was my background color. I'm doing the opposite for this. My dark color is the main color on my index, background color will be the purple on your thumb. The rhythm is go under and over and bring it to the front. Again, go under the first strand of yarn closest to you. Go over your index yarn and keep it down like this. That's going to be the first knit stitch. Then we're going to do the opposite. Go under the index yarn, over the thumb And keep on swooshing it down to the back. Like that. That's going to become the purl stitch. Okay, under, over, swoosh it to the front, and then go to the index yarn, under, over. So the first stitch you're gonna start with the thumb, under, over, swoosh it to the front, and then go to the back, under, over, swoosh it to the back. Starting in the front, under, over, swoosh to the front. Under, over, swoosh to the back. Under, over, swoosh to the front. Under, over, swoosh to the back. And one thing that I'm not doing is I'm not tightening the stitches yet, but you want them to be really tight and snug on the needle. So after each stitch, under, over, swoosh to the front, you could give it a little tighten up movement like this to make sure that it's not Not too spacious, not too loose on the needle. Under, over, swoosh to the back. So that's what I think of. I think front, under, over, swoosh to the front. Back, under, over, swoosh to the back. So front, under, over, swoosh to the front. Back, under, over, swoosh to the back. Front, you go under the front strand. We'll come back to the front. And back, go under the back strand. Swoosh to the back. So keep on doing that until you have the recommended stitch count. I'm going to do 144 stitches for size two of the billowing brioche hat. Once you get the rhythm, it's going to start flowing really nicely. And if you mess up, it's your first time doing this technique maybe, then just restart. You know, it doesn't take too long to do the cast on. So give it some practice. I already did that one. You need to swoosh to the front, swoosh to the back, and back. I am ready to do my final stitch, getting the 144th stitch, and you want to hang on to the yarns because if you let go, it's all going to come undone. So this is the point to be really careful just to pinch and keep these yarns in place, and then you want to make sure that it's not twisting, so you don't want to see this happen. Do you see how these bumps are occurring there? Just keep everything, you want to see the stitches all lined up nice and snug on the needle because we're going to join to work in the round, so you don't want to let go of those yarns. I'm going to do the magic loop method, so I'm going to go ahead and just slide all my stitches over to the other needle tip and start getting them charged up on my needle. And again, I don't wanna let go of that. So one thing I do, I'll just make like a little knot here, just temporary to make sure that the yarn doesn't go flying off. So get those charged up onto your left needle and get ready for the magic loop technique. All right, I've got about half of my stitches on my left needle, and I'm gonna poke that circular needle cord through halfway through the round approximately. And then I want to make sure that these aren't twisted as well. So I just want to hold on to them, make sure I'm not seeing that little bump twist around the needle, so that by the time I'm at the end of the row here, there we go, and I made that temporary little slip knot. I'm going to take that out. So now I know that my stitches, I don't see them spiraling along the needle. I'm going to take my main color. This will be my darker color. We're going to knit. You can follow the rows, the rounds, as written and start doing the knit, slip one yarn over, knit, slip one yarn over. I'm going to do a preparatory row and when you're at the beginning of the round, remember that slip knot we did at the beginning, we can take that off as well. And then here's the first stitch. I'm going to knit that first stitch. It's going to feel a little bit loose but you can just tighten it up a little bit. Knitting that first stitch, that main color stitch, and then I'm going to slip my contrast color stitch with yarn in front. This is an optional setup round just to get knitting without doing all of the slipping yarn over brioche techniques yet. So knit each matching main color stitch and then slip the contrast stitch. with yarn in front. And another thing I'm going to do, do you see how this stitch is mounted backwards? Instead of slipping it in that front strand, I'm going to slip this back strand so that the stitch is now mounted properly. Knit one and I'm going to slip that contrast color stitch. Slip that back leg with the yarn in front, knit one, slip one with yarn in front. This is just an optional preparatory row. If you dive in straight into the written instructions of this billowing brioche hat or any other brioche project, then this contrast color stitch, you might slip with a yarn over going on top of it, but I'm gonna slip it with the yarn traveling in front. Knit one, slip one with yarn in front. And this is going to make that edge a little bit more stretchy and I think just an easier setup before you get going with all those yarn overs on the needle. It's already a tight little cast on anyway, so this I think makes it a bit easier just to get started. Slip one with yarn in front, knit one, slip one with yarn in front all the way to the end of the round. I'm at the end of this setup round. I just did that final knit one with the main color and slip one with yarn in front. If that last stitch like falls off the needle, that's very common. Just pick it up. You just wanna pick up that contrast color stitch and slip that color with yarn in front. Just get that contrast color stitch on the right needle. But sometimes it slips off because of that loose ending over there. And you could have done that first setup round with your main larger needle. I did it with the smaller needle just to keep it on the same needle, get going. But now I'm going to use my main needle. This is a needle one or two sizes larger than that small needle you used for your cast on. And I'm gonna scooch all my stitches over. Now I'm going to start working with my larger needle. Again, as you're charging the stitches on the needle, I'm always making sure that it's not twisting a lot like this. You want to see the smooth stitches. It's a little tricky to see at first, but do you see how this is getting all bumpy? Just start wiggling it a little bit and seeing where it rests, and then you don't want I don't want to see that spiral occur like that. This is looking good. We're going to do, I'm going to do one more setup round with the contrast color. Again, this is totally optional. If you just follow the pattern as written, doing your brioche knit, slip one yarn over with the main color, and then slip one yarn over, brioche purl, with your contrast color, you can just get going. For the first contrast color round, I'm going to do this To start this setup round, locate the main color stitch, slip it with yarn in back, And purl the contrast color stitch. Slip one with yarn in back. Purl the contrast color stitch. And this is just an optional setup round before we get going with the brioche slip one yarn over techniques. This just gets going nice and clean all the way to the end of the round. Slip one with yarn in back. Purl one for this optional setup round. This is the final slip one with yarn in back. And purl one. At the end of this optional setup round, and now we can start doing the brioche, or you could do the brioche as soon as you cast on, but now we're at the written instructions. After we cast on 144 stitches, make sure that your cast on isn't twisted. So this is that bottom part of the cast on. It's not looking, it's not spiraling around the needle like that. I'm ready to keep on going Using the magic loop method, So now for this first brioche round, using my main color, knit one with the main color and slip one, make sure we can see this. Knit one with the main color, slip one with the yarn over. Knit one and slip one with the yarn over. This is getting us ready for the brioche knitting. And then with the contrast color, you're always going to brioche purl the pair The main color in the next round. But for main color, you slip one with the yarn over, knit the main color, slip the contrast color with the yarn over. So those are all the techniques for this tubular cast on. You can check out my other YouTube videos for more two-color brioche techniques, doing brioche flat or in the round, but that was the tubular cast on. Continue working in the round for the hat or any other brioche project that you want and I'll link to all my patterns down below. You can get any of these instructions on Ravelry or westknits.com and check out the cable tutorial as well in the billowing brioche hat. I'll show you how once you have brioche ribbing flowing how to cable your brioche stitches in my other video. For brioche cables, and you get this beautiful reversible texture for the billowing brioche hat.