The downside to the long tail cast on is that it doesn’t work if your tail is too short. Luckily, you can add more yarn using these 3 methods (plus one bonus method so you never run out of yarn).
The long tail cast on is a fantastic cast on. Its only downside is that it’s hard to figure out how long the tail needs to be. Here are two easy methods for estimating the tail of a long tail cast on.
Keep casting on stitches, placing a stitch marker every 10 stitches, and instead of counting every stitch individually, count in sets of 10, starting from 0 after every stitch marker…