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- Now we're gonna cast on.

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And you're going to be putting

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the three skeins of yarn together.

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You're gonna knit with them at the same time

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so you're almost plying a very thick yarn,

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that's what gives that arm-knit fabric its plushness.

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We're gonna start with some terminology.

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You have your three skeins here

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and the yarn that comes from these skeins,

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that's called your working yarn.

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So this coming from your balls is your working yarn.

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And this part here is called your tail.

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The kind of cast on we're doing is similar

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to a long-tail cast on in knitting.

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You need enough of this tail in order

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to form the stitches on your arm.

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My rule of thumb is to use about a yard

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for every 10 stitches.

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So to be safe, I use about a yard

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and a half of tail in order to cast on

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the 11 stitches we'll need for this project.

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So the way we start this is

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you want to start with a slip knot.

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To do a slip knot, you wanna take the tail in your left hand

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and the working yarn in your right.

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You wanna put the tail over your left hand

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and then you wanna bring that working yarn over your hand

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so you have a loop like this.

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Reach through that loop

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and take the working yarn

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and bring it through the loop.

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And you wanna pull that tight.

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Then what you wanna do is put that loop

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that you formed onto your right hand.

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So to tighten it, you just pull apart

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the working yarn, which is in your right hand,

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and the tail which is in your left

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and you pull them away from each other.

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And you can see that tightening on my wrist.

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So that's it, you've done your first stitch.

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Now to cast on the next stitch,

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what you're gonna do is you're gonna take the tail

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in your hand and you're gonna form a loop,

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and I like to think it has the shape of a four.

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And what you wanna do is you wanna reach through

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that loop and grab the working yarn.

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Then you wanna pull the working yarn through that loop

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and drop it, drop what's in your right hand.

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You take the working yarn

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and you put it onto your right hand.

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Then what you're gonna do is pull that stitch tight

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by again pulling apart the working yarn and the tail.

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And that's your second stitch.

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I'm gonna do that again.

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You take your tail and you make a loop,

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see how it looks like a four?

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And then you're gonna reach through that loop

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with your left hand, grab the working yarn,

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bring it through and then you're gonna drop

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the top of the four, you're gonna drop

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what was in your right hand.

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And then you put your right hand through that new loop.

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You're gonna pick up the working yarn in your right hand

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and the tail in your left and you're gonna

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pull them apart to tighten it.

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Now we've got three stitches.

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We're gonna keep on casting on here

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until we get 11 stitches.

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And what you're gonna find is that,

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over time, you'll find shortcuts that you like to use.

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You might not hold it exactly the same way

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we learned right here, right off.

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Just start to do what's comfortable for you.

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To see if you have enough,

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you're gonna count your stitches here.

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So we have one,

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two,

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three,

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four,

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five,

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six,

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seven,

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eight.

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You just wanna be careful when you're counting

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those stitches that you keep each strand of yarn together.

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So as you know we have three strands

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that are together to make your yarn,

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so each stitch will have the three strands in it.

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And it should be pretty clear when you're looking at it.

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So we got to eight and now we're gonna do

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the last three stitches.

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One thing you wanna pay attention to

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is that when you pull your yarn apart,

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you wanna pull them together,

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you don't wanna pull one or you could end up

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with bunching like that and you don't want that,

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you wanna pull those all together so your stitches are even.

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That was one.

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Two.

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This is our third and last stitch,

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so that's, in all, 11 stitches cast on.

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Congratulations.

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And now we're ready to knit.