OMG finally. I looked at so many backwards loop cast-on videos and NONE of them showed actual knitting into them. They just show this goofy cast-on and then end the video. They all leave out the most important part! It's a loosey goosey cast-on and I wanted to see how a pro knits into it without things going haywire. This video was amazing! The M1 technique is genius.

Wonderful, as allways! For me the first one and then to purl allways was a problem! W-A-S, that's so fine! Thanks! You're great, with your "little helper - videos", that birng a lot of help to us knitters! Be blessed and please go on and do these fantasticevideos for us! i knit for over 42 years, you know, I wrote to you sometimes, and I allways learn something from you! I never watched avideo without any "Aha!" for me, and so it will be for the most of my knitting sisters here on YT. Thanks so much! Stay healthy and stay as you are, you're great, not only when helping us, I guess!

Really good, clear video. I'm knitting a scarf that has a stair step edge and this video has helped me keep the cast on edges very sharp. Thank you!

That is brilliant! I had pretty much figured out how to do the cast on, but was struggling with all the slack. Love, love, love your videos! Thank you.

Great new tip for me! Thanks. I also admire your sweaters that you wear for the podcasts,Roxanne.

This was so informative for me . I have enjoyed knitting for 10 years and didn't know how to put on stitches between my work. I'm going to try this process soon. Love this channel.

Oh my God I was halfway through what I was making with this cast on and you just saved me a whole world of frustration! Definitely worth a coffee! Enjoy and thank you!

Your videos are making me a better knitter! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

OMG you are fabulous beyond words! Thank you for your incredible knowledge and teaching skills... 💗

You are a life saver, you made the backwards loop cast on sooooo easy, thank you so much

Thanks for this video, I have always had problems with extra slack in this CO. Your explanation was very easy to understand as well!

This, as always, was SUPER helpful and I have used it to save myself some trouble! THANKS so much!

This is so helpful Roxanne, thank you!

SO helpful. Just the tip i need for my current project. Thanks! Video saved 👍

Thank you so much for sharing this brilliant tip for the backward loop cast on.

The best instructions on this - thank you!!

Hugely helpful as I added 14 sts on the underarms of my first sweater today. Thank you!

Thanks, Roxanne! This cast-on method was my least favorite because of the extra slack. I did a similar adaptation, but I like how you explained, divided, and added the new stitches.

Thank you! I’ll be using both those tips.

Wow! This is just what I needed to know!

Such helpful tips! Thanks!

Thank you, thank you. I needed this

Great solution to that long gap in yarn! Thank you!

Excellent, very clear

Wow - I didn't know how much I didn't know :) All good tips.

Wow!!! Aha moment here It’s the little things they say in life and this is one of those little things, THANK YOU BIG!!!

Thanks for the great tips!

Thank you so much, very helpful....coffee on its way!

Good one 😲 something new . Thank you💗 👊

This was very helpful! Thank You

Thanks so much for the 2nd tip!

Thank you, i had a problem with the extra yarn while knitting, very helpful

Like magic! That's amazing!! Thank you

Thank you so much Rox!

Thank you so much! It was really helpful.

Very useful indeed. Thank you 🙏 🧶

Helpful, as usual!

This was very helpful. Thanks

Great tips!! Thanks

I always hate that extra slack. This is very helpful.

Excellent tips thank you

Awesome. Thanks so much 🎉🎉

It's very helpful ❤ thank you

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the tip on how to avoid extra slack by casting on less stitches, then using the M1L to get the right number of stitches. The neck of my current project is going to look so much better. In the pattern I’m working, the very next row has purls & knits in those cast-on stitches. I was still finding the purl stitches looking too loose so I decided to P TBL and that seemed to help.

I have been knitting with a pencil grip for ever. I knitted as a child but cannot remember who taught me - my mother didn't knit and nor did my grandmothers so far as I remember. However I am originally from the UK and now live in Canada. The only other person I have seen knitting like that is Carol Feller - Irish so close to the UK. Interesting discussion though it still doesn't explain the cartoons for me - my needles are almost horizontal! One interesting point about the pencil grip is that, with the flicking method, purling is quicker in my opinion - less needle movement I think. Next point is that Knitpicks does a Color Card for its Palette line. Many of the colors are used in their other lines too so it is quite useful

I just learned about the backward loop for toe up socks. I found it much easier to knit into and have more even stitches with better tension in the beginning of the toe as I like to use (and only have) doublepointed needles. You always provide such thoughtful & useful information so that i can understand my knitting so much better. Just curious, have you ever used the backward loop method for toe up socks?

@RoxanneRichardson

2 жыл бұрын

I usually reserve the backwards loop for when I need consecutive sts CO. When I need to do a single increase, as for toe-up socks, I use a basic YO, and then on the next round, I knit the YO through the back leg of the st so that it twists and closes. The result is the same as a backwards loop, but the YO takes slightly less time. Knitter's choice! :-)

Thank you for great tips Rox! I have a question. When you knit flat and Stockinette stitch, and if you do m1 with left-twisted version on “wrong side”, how do you knit the stitch on RS (next row)? Should I knit regularly or though the back loop?

How to prevent slack for underarm raglans ? As they do get stretch out and looks sloppy. Thanks!

Thanks!

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

You bet!

Thankyou

謝謝！

I have a problem. Did BLCO for 140 stitches. Knitting along, my project fell on the floor, lost some of the stitches. I cast them back on, but as I was knitting I have this long lag in the yarn which is creating a hole. Trying to figure out how to correct without starting over, because I'm knitting in the round and have other regular knitted stitches on my needle. Any ideas???

Thank you Roxanne. What about using a cable cast on in these situations? Wouldn’t it be preferred because it would add strength i.e. underarms?

@RoxanneRichardson

2 жыл бұрын

"Preferred" is tricky, because what is preferred/needed by one knitter will not be preferred/needed by another. The cable cast on is bulkier, has less stretch, and has a different appearance than a backwards loop CO. Depending on what your project needs, combined with what you perceive to be an advantage or disadvantage, and which process you prefer, you might very well choose to use a cable CO in a situation where another knitter would choose the backwards loop; or, the situations in which you need to CO sts mid-project may be very different from the situations another knitter may have.

How do I cast on stitches if I'm on a pearl row?

Thanks

@RoxanneRichardson

2 жыл бұрын

You're welcome! :-)

Hi Roxanne, I am an English knitter and flick rather than a throw and wonder if there a way to do this without involving my left hand and having to re tension my yarn all the time. I am knitting a variation of the feather and fan pattern so have to k1 M 1, 8 times? I have tried a number of times and this seems too hard. I might revert to YO make ones, but if you have an idea I would love to hear it. I am still swatching and trying to do it as instructed.

@RoxanneRichardson

2 жыл бұрын

If you're doing single M1 incs, you might as well do a YO and ktbl on the next row (that's what I do in that situation). It is possible to do backwards loops with the right hand. I have a *really* old video on this called something like EZ's M1 increases. It should be in the playlist called Increases and Decreases.

Hi, there! I have learned so much from you and would love to buy you a cup of coffee, but it appears on Ko-Fi that even if I attempt to just use a credit card, I am routed through PayPal, which I would rather avoid. Is there another way to do this or am I failing to see something obvious? Thank you!

@RoxanneRichardson

Жыл бұрын

Ko-fi uses Paypal as the payment method. In some countries you can use a credit card as a guest checkout on Paypal (for a limited number of times), from what I understand, but otherwise, there is no other way to pay. Alternatively, you can use the SuperThanks button on a KZread video (it's the heart with $ inside it, and Thanks written next to it) under the video playback screen). I'm not sure how that charge system works (I believe it's Google Pay, which is connected to a credit card).

How do you add a purl stick to avoid the slack?

@RoxanneRichardson

3 жыл бұрын

Are you asking how to do a m1p? If so, lift the running thread from back to front (the strand on the needle will be angled to the right /). Purl through the front/left leg, (leg attached to the stitch on the left), which will create the twisted loop. That's the easiest way to do a m1p. It will twist to the right at the base. If you want it to twist to the left, you'd have to lift from front to back (the strand on the needle will be angled left \). You would then have to purl through the back/left leg, which is trickier, but the resulting loop at the base will twist left.

Why don't you knit it with the whole stitch instead of just half the stitch . . Then the direction is not an issue and there is not all that extra slack in the yarn to require one stitch less.

@RoxanneRichardson

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not following you when you ask why not "knit it with the whole stitch instead of just half the stitch"? Are you asking why I don't use a different cast on method, like knitting on? Or are you asking something else?

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Thanks!

@RoxanneRichardson

9 ай бұрын

You bet!