A tute! Turkish cast on
G'day all! Updated 22 March 2013. Last year I was asked to show my LYS in Fort Collins how I cast on socks. They thought it was fab. Heh. Made me feel good! So I wrote up a tute on how to do it and showed some folks. I thought it would be good to share with you too! Let me know if there are any probs with it. Scuse the odd fuzzy photo! Toe up socks - the cast on This cast on is great for anything knitted from the toe up, top of head down or fingertip down. You just vary the number of stitches you start off with. You won't have twisted stitches (if you are a western knitter - continental and combined types might have to play around a little! And lefties, ah lefties - I am a lefty but I knit right handed - see if the mirror image works for you!). You will need loooong circular needles - at least 47"/120cm. Metre long circs are a little harder to wrangle especially if you end up with two socks on them and 1.5m circs can be very loopy indeed. I knit soc...