Simple Crossed cast on Method

This special cast on is my adaptation from the “montage croisé formant une chaîne” (Cast on crossed making a chain) explained by Thérèse de Dillmont in her book Encyclopédie des ouvrages de Dames. This cast on is worked quite in the same way as the continental cast on. It gives a nice, decorative and stretchy border that bundle the stitches two-by-two.
Make a slip knot and then work 1^st st holding the yarn from the ball over your finger and the end tail of yarn placed from the inside of your palm around your thumb:

1. Insert needle under the loop around your thumb

2. Pull up a loop from the finger yarn

3. Pass it through the thumb loop

4. Remove the loop from the thumb

Work the 2^nd stitch as follows:

5. Place the end tail of yarn around your thumb from the outside of your palm

6. Insert needle through the back loop around your thumb

7. Pull up a loop from the finger yarn

8. Pass it through the thumb loop

9. Remove the loop from the thumb

10. Repeat from step 1 to 10

Happy knitting :)

 

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