This is my favourite technique for casting on the toe of a sock.

Check out knitty for a great written (by the inventor) description, but here’s a quick clip I found on youtube.

Once again, the calibre of videos on youtube are appalling, this is the shaky best that I could find.

I’m seriously considering breaking out the camera and recording a few of my own when I get back from my travels.

Alas, onward to the technique:

Five skeins out of five.

This is my all-time favourite cast on.

It’s quick, easy to execute and remember and it’s stretchy. Once you have a feel for how much yarn your tail needs, you won’t know how you lived without it.

It’s the cast on I almost always use for my own designs, because I love that you’re creating the first row while you cast on, it’s economy of knitting and I’m nothing if not lazy.

This video, taken from youtube, was made by the very generous people behind Knitting Help, a wonderful knitting resource, and it’s the one I learned the technique from.

Five skeins out of five.