One of the decorative cast-on methods I like to use is the Cable Cast-on method. I’ve used this cast-on method on several of my knits including The Cozy Season Shrug and The Cozy Mood Winter Hat. It gives a nice finished edge for any top down or bottom up knitted items. An advantage to this method is that you don’t need a long yarn tail to begin casting on the stitches. The cable cast-on begins with a slip knot and each additional stitch is added using an alternative to the knitted cast-on method. The written instructions and video below on how to do the cable cast-on is shown for right handed knitting.

The Cable Cast-on Method

The Cable Cast-on Steps:

1. Make a slip knot
2. Transfer the slip knot onto the left knitting needle
3. Insert the right knitting needle into the slip knot and bring working yarn around and in between the two needles as if to knit
4. Catch and pull the working yarn loop onto the right knitting needle
5. Transfer the new stitch loop from the right knitting needle onto the left knitting needle
6. Insert the right knitting needle into the space in between the bottom of first 2 stitches on the left knitting needle
7. Catch and pull the working yarn loop with the right knitting needle
8. Transfer the new stitch loop from the right knitting needle onto the left knitting needle
9. Repeat steps 6 – 8 till the desired number of stitch count is reached for a knitting project