Beyond toe-socks…erm…before?

Amigurumi can wait! I just taught myself longtail cast on.

My unfinished amigurumi sits at the bottom of my knitting basket while I am setting to work attempting my first pair of fingerless gloves. Those now sit on top of the amigurumi while I dip my toe in the waters of double pointed needles and make some flip flop socklets. It’s always better to start off with a little bit of practice (for me, anyhow), and it’s nice when you can have a finished project at the end of all that trial and error and ripping out.

In searching for some easy patternes for fingerless gloves, I came across this one for flip flop socklets. Super easy, super quick, and even if they don’t turn out well I haven’t wasted much yarn. I also came across mention of casting on with only one needle, and since I had attempted to learn it before and felt utterly talentless I naturally decided to try it again!

So here I sit in front of my computer with a ball of scrap yarn in my lap and one glistening bamboo double pointed needle in my hand. On the screen is a video of how to do the longtail cast on. I now have a knotted length of yarn and can’t find my yarn snips. Attempt #42 found me adjusting my tension and getting into a rhythm until I dropped the whole thing somehow and had to try and remember which side of my thumb the yarn should wrap around.

And…I just read a different set of directions and found out I had the tail end over my finger, not my thumb, a key point the first tutorial failed to mention. :*