40K views · 3.6K reactions | Italian cast off shortcut #knitting Once you’ve internalised the 5 steps of the Italian cast off, you can combine some of the steps to work more efficiently and gain speed. I’ve seen other combinations, but this is how I like to do it. | Annaplexis | Facebook

Tubular Cast On (also Italian Cast On) for 1x1 ribbing tutorial #knitting #shorts

The Italian cast off gives a very neat edge to your #knitting, but is quite labour intensive 🧶😉 Cut the yarn leaving a tail of at least 4x the width of your cast off edge. Use a darning needle. Enter the first st (a knit st) purlwise and the second st (a purl st) knitwise leaving them on the knitting needle. Enter the first st knitwise and slip it off the needle. *Enter the second st (a knit st) purlwise. Enter the first st purlwise and slip it off the needle. Pass the needle back to front bet