Does anyone else have a problem with casting on? Mine is almost always too tight and then it’s near impossible to carry on. This is so frustrating. I chucked the lot across the room yesterday and its behind the telly now, where as far as I’m concerned, it can stay.

Have a look in the Knitting Group (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=74) :) .

Try casting on using a needle that's a size or two larger than the ones you intend to use for your project, then switch to the correct size for the first row. You can also cast on to two needles held together.

Does anyone else have a problem with casting on? Mine is almost always too tight and then it’s near impossible to carry on. This is so frustrating. I chucked the lot across the room yesterday and its behind the telly now, where as far as I’m concerned, it can stay.

Thats so funny :hihi: try using you thumb as the other needle, you can control the tension better.

Brilliant suggestions - thank you! I'll dig it out and have another go. I was a little bit disappointed in the millenium exhibition by the way, if there were knitting tumours...that's what they'd look like.

Thats so funny :hihi: try using you thumb as the other needle, you can control the tension better.


YEH, thats what I do, never fails.

YEH, thats what I do, never fails.That's the ONLY way I can do it!

I tend to cast on too tightly too when I am doing a knitted on cast on , so have in the past used a larger needle as Hecate suggests. Nowdays I nearly always cast on using a long tail cast on (thumb method) and that seems to do the trick - see the video here (http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/cast-on) with loads of other casting on methods you could try. Good luck and keep visiting :D :thumbsup: