Picot Cast On

• Step 1: Make a slip knot and tighten it onto your knitting needle.
• Step 2: Using the knitted cast on, place another stitch on your needle.
• Step 3: Turn your work and with the yarn in front, slip the first stitch on your main needle purl wise.
• Step 4: Carrying the yarn over your needle and holding it in place with your thumb so it does not cross the slipped stitch, knit the next stitch off your main needle. You should now have three stitches on your working needle.
• Step 5: With your main needle, slip the middle stitch over the knitted stitch. You should now have two stitches on your needle.

Repeat steps 3 – 5 until you have cast on all but one of your stitches. Then repeat the sequence once more without the yarn over.

Once you have cast on all your stitches you will need to pick up the stitches through the eyelet holes along the edge of your picot chain.