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\f0\fs24 \cf0 To cast on with a ruffle yarn that has a mesh structure, you want to pull
open the yarn a bit to spread it out and if the yarn has sort of a rough edge here, what
you can do is fold it over itself once or twice. But then treat that folded piece as
a single layer of the yarn. In order to cast on, instead of doing a traditional cast-on
you're actually just putting stitches onto the needle. The way you do that is to insert
your needle near the upper edge of the yarn from back to front so that the stitches end
up pointing in the correct direction on your needles when you're ready to knit them. So
you're going to again go back to front. In the case of this yarn the manufacturer recommends
going about three quarters of an inch at a time, but really you can pick any amount of
space and really play with how ruffly your yarn will end up being. When you have the
desired number of stitches cast on, you simply turn the yarn around and knit it as you would
any other yarn by putting your empty needle in the stitch and then using the opened mesh
as your working yarn, throwing it up and over again sticking towards the edge of the mesh
and knitting it as you normally would. To bind-off this yarn you can use a traditional
bind-off, knitting a stitch, knitting a second stitch, and then passing that first stitch
over the second stitch and off the needle and moving on to the rest of them knitting
one passing the first stitch over. You want to be careful with this particular type of
yarn to do this very loosely you might want to move up a needle size or two in order to
do it because the tighter you cast off the more pulled together the edge of your scarf
will be. }