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Is knitted cast on same as double cast on?

in knitting, the sling shot method is the knitted one, or knitted cast on is something different?

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1. By "sling shot method" are you referring to the one where you have to estimate how much yarn you'll need for your cast-on, then loop the middle of it over the fingers of one hand (making a kind of "sling shot") and use the needle to pick up the required number of stitches, praying all the while that you'll have enough but not too much? That's the only method I knew for a long time. Then I was at a prayer shawl gathering, and learned a way that sounds like it might be called a "knitted cast-on". Your first loop (on your left needle, assuming right handed knitter) is a slipknot, but then you act as if you are knitting: put your needle in, pull the loop from the working yarn, BUT, instead of taking that loop as a new stitch on your right needle (and dropping the old loop off the left one in the process), you put it back on the left needle. And then repeat (using the most recent stitch as the base for the next one) until you have all the stitches you need. You have to put a little twist into it as you put it on the left needle, otherwise the finished edge is very sloppy, but it's a whole lot better than the guesswork of the "sling shot" method.
2. The knitted cast on goes like this: Put a slip knot on your left needle. This is the first stitch. Next take a stitch as if you are knitting, but don't finish it. Instead put it on the left needle. For your next stitch go between the 2 stitches on the needle and grab a loop and put this on the needle. From now on keep taking stitches between stitches and place on your left needle until you have enough.
3. no, both are different. knitted cast on is like cable cast on. long tail cast on or sling shot method is double cast on http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/cast-on