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- I'm going to work a tubular cast-on now to start the cowl.

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The reason I've chosen tubular is because

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you're actually casting on

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alternating knit and purl stitches,

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and the purl stitches naturally wanna go to the B side

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and the knit stitches to the A side of your fabric.

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It's similar to the long tail cast-on

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in that it's gonna straddle your thumb and finger

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and you're gonna have a tail.

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To calculate the tail for the tubular,

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I'm gonna wrap the yarn around the needle I'm using

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10 times.

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I'm gonna use that to measure off

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the length I need for the stitches.

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We're having 72 stitches total for this cowl,

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but only half of them are gonna be on one side

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and half on the other.

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The tail is really representing just one side of the cowl.

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So we would need

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36 stitches.

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So 10

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and another 10

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is 20,

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30.

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Then I'm just gonna measure off a little more for the tail

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in those few extra stitches.

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The tail end is going over the finger and

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the yarn attached to this gain, to the ball,

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is going over my thumb and hold them together.

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Insert the needle next to the yarn here.

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Rotate the needle toward you and twist it back.

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You have the first loop on there

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which represents a knit stitch.

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To make a purl stitch,

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move the tip of the needle

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toward the finger over the yarn under both of them.

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Grab the thumb

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and come back to center.

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To make a knit stitch,

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rotate the needle to the front,

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under, grab the back yarn, and back to center.

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And repeat it.

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If you look at these on the needle,

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you'll see what is a flat stitch that's knit

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and the bump is a purl.

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A knit and a purl.

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So you can see that you are casting on

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what look like knit and purl stitches.

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So we finished with the purl, we're gonna do a knit.

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So we bring the needle to the front,

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grab the yarn over the finger

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and come back to center.

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To do a purl, move backward,

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grab the yarn over the thumb under

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and back to center.

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We do that until we have

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72 stitches.

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Now, we have 72 stitches.

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You're gonna have to hold on to that tail

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until you begin knitting.

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You turn your work to the other side.

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Here's that tail.

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Hold on until you work your first couple of stitches

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to lock that in.

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The first stitch is gonna be a knit stitch.

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We're gonna bring the yarn to the front

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and slip the next stitch purlwise.

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Yarn to the back.

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Knit.

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Yarn to the front.

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Slip.

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This is the first pass of a double knit row

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in a solid color like we worked earlier in the sample.

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Knit.

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Yarn in front, slip.

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We do this

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all the way to the end.

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Then we're gonna turn and come back

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and do the exact same thing

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so that we work the stitches.

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We knit the stitches that we slipped on this pass.

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We're gonna knit.

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Yarn in front.

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Slip.

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Knit.

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Yarn in front.

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Slip.

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All the way to the end.

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It looks a little messy on the needle

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until you get a couple of rows of double knitting on.

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It tends to do that.

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The reason

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I'm working this row

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before I join to knit in the round

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is because it's easier to join without twisting the stitches

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if you have a little length on it.

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Just about to the end

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of the first pass.

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Now, we're gonna turn

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and work back

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the stitches that we slipped on that pass

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in exactly the same way.

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We're gonna knit.

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Bring the yarn to the front and slip.

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Yarn back

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and knit.

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Yarn front and slip.

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And we'll work this all the way to the end here.

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And we'll be ready to join

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and knit in the round.

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I've just worked one row of double knitting.

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You can see on the needle, there's a little length

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which makes it easier to get ready to join in the round

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and not have stitches twisted

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which would have been hard to see

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if all we had was the cast-on.

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We're gonna hold the end of the needle

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with the attached yarn

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in the right hand.

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We'll put a marker on the right hand needle

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and once again check

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to make sure that your stitches aren't twisted

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and that you have the working yarn

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and not the tail by mistake.

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We're gonna knit one more double row round.

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We're gonna knit a stitch, bring the yarn to the front,

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and slip one.

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Knit

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and slip.

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Knit.

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Yarn in front and slip one.

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We're gonna continue around

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until we reach the marker

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and we'll have worked the stitches on the front side.

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Then we'll need to do another pass

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and work the stitches on the back side

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and slip the stitches that we're knitting now.

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We're almost at the end of this round

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and we'll have

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worked all the knit stitches that are facing us.

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We're gonna go around one more time

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and work the stitches that we haven't worked

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which will be purl stitches.

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Now that we're knitting in the round,

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we're not gonna be turning

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and working in the other direction,

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we'll always have side A facing us.

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We'll slip the marker and keep going.

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We slipped the knit stitch because

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we've already worked that one

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and we'll purl the next stitch.

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Now, we're slipping with the yarn in back

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and

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purling.

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Slipping

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and purling.

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For this pass, we're working all the stitches

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that we slipped on the previous pass.

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That makes up one complete round.

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For the rest of this cowl,

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we'll always be

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keeping the A side toward us

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and the B side to the back.

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Once we get around to the marker,

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we'll start working from the chart

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our double knit two-color pattern.