Turkish Cast ON

This is my favorite way to cast on stitches to knit a sock. I am sure you will love it just as much!

1. Make a slipknot and put it on one of the needles. Place the other needle on top of the first one and make sure the tips are pointing to the right. 

2. Wrap the yarn backwards around the needles. Make as many wraps as half of the total stitches. So if you want 32 stitches you warp the yarn around 16 times and if you want 40 stitches you make 20 wraps and so on. 

3 Pull on the lowest needle so that the wraps go to the cable and the needle is free. Take this needle in your right hand. In your left hand you take the needles with the wraps still on the needle. 

4. Knit all the wraps on the left needle. 

5. You now have knit stitches on the right needle, nothing on the left needle and half of the wraps still on the cable. Push those wraps on the left needle. The needles are now on top of eachother again. Make sure the tips are pointing to the right again

6. Again pull on the lower needle (this is the needle with the knit stitches on it) so that the stitches slide on the cable. Take the empty needle in your right hand and the needles with the wraps in your left hand. 

7. On the left needle you see the slipknot first. Push the slipknot off the needle. (later you can weave that thread in) For now you don’t have to do anything with that thread. 

8. Knit the wraps on the left needle. After push the stitches that are on the cable to the empty needle. 

Now you have the total amount of stitches needed on the 2 needles and you can start knitting your project.