Yarnification

I’m posting this partly because having it sitting, marked “save as new”, in my Bloglines account is driving me a little nuts but I don’t want to lose the link, and partly in case it helps anyone else: In Search of the Looser Cast-on. I’ve only ever used the long-tail cast-on, and all this time I thought it was just me that couldn’t manage a nice, pretty, even, not-too-tight cast-on, even though I’ve tried various bits of advice like casting on over two needles (my result: floppy, yet still somehow too tight). I’m going to mess around with some other cast-on methods and see how it goes. I’ve been itching to do some knitting but one of the things that holds me back is that casting on makes me ka-razy.