How to Knit the Long Tail Cast On for Beginners - The Best Cast On to Know, by Craft Fix knitting & crochet on YouTube. 4 min 36 s.
- Video length
- 4 min 36 s
- Time to do it
- Varies
- Difficulty
- Easy
- Steps
- See video
What this tutorial covers
- How to estimate how long a tail to leave before casting on.
- The four-step slingshot movement used to form each cast-on stitch.
- A second demonstration, a continuous cast-on for speeding up, and a note that row 1 is the wrong side.



