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Techknitting shows us how to do a tubular cast off when knitting in the round.
Techknitter writes:
Knitters often complain that their casts on look so different from their casts off, but after this post, YOU, dear reader, will no longer be able to complain about this particular annoyance. In examining the exposed fabric edge, the most eagle-eyed expert will find it impossible to say whether your tubular ribbing edges were created by a cast ON or a cast OFF.To find out how to tubular cast on, visit the Techknitting blog here - Link.
Actually you will see "cast off" frequently with British Knitting patterns, I think Canadian as well. Also they use the term "double crochet" for what is referred to a single crochet in the US, "treble crochet" for US "double", etc. On the Garstudio site with the translated patterns, you'll often see yarn referred to as "thread" and important pattern notes prefaced with a mysterious "NB!" ...I've decided to consider these things charming and a small blow against mindless homogenization of our planet, kinda like the U.S.'s quirky "lone wolf" rejection of the metric system!
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I really love the tubular cast-on and bind-off. I'm going to have to check it out!
Also, I hate to nitpick, but it's "cast-on" and "bind-off". There really is no "cast-off" which is why patterns abbreviate CO and BO.
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