Notions - Provisional Yarn

Keep a length (about 3-5 yards) of smooth lighter weight cotton yarn in your notions kit so you can always do a provisional cast on when you need it.

In a provisional cast on, you are casting on with a temporary yarn and then knitting with the project yarn from the temporary loops. The intent is that later you will undo the temporary cast on, picking up the resulting loops of your project yarn to knit from the “bottom edge” of the piece. A garish color for your temporary makes it easier to pick out or unravel and smooth cotton won’t catch on your loops as you remove it.