Let's Play a Game

Let’s play what the crap am I doing in this picture?

Ready? Go.

(Insert Jeopardy theme song in your head. Since the song is in your head, and only in your head I don’t think I’m breaking any copyright laws)

Times up. And the Survey says……

A crocheted provisional cast on.

If you couldn’t get that from the picture, I don’t blame you. I don’t think I could have guessed that from this picture and I was the one actually doing it.

Obviously at one point I had the crochet hook in my right hand and was actually crocheting with it over the needle. Honestly though, holding everything in my left hand for the photo opportunity didn’t really change all the mess I had going on in either hand.  This was challenging.

A provisional cast on is a way of casting on that will allow you to leave live stitches at the beginning of your work. Allegedly this is to allow for a seamless finish if one is say… planning on joining the bind off and cast on edge of a headband for her neighbor together.  I say allegedly because I can’t actually prove that this will work. The yarn my neighbor picked out is causing me some technical difficulties.  So I stopped knitting with it, used another yarn and plan on just….not using a provisional cast on.  We’ll see how this works out.

Now it’s time to poll the audience. What is your favorite method of provisionally casting on and why?

Shabbat Shalom!