Learn how to do the knitted cast on with this tutorial!
1 Make a slip knot on the left needle. Insert the right needle knitwise into the stitch on the left needle. Wrap the yarn around the right needle as if to knit.
2 Draw the yarn through the first stitch to make a new stitch, but don’t drop the stitch from the left needle.
3 Slip the new stitch to the left needle as shown. Continue until all the stitches are cast on.
I have always used the cable cast-on for most knitting, because it has a togetherness that the knitted cast-on hasn’t got. Doesn’t stretch the same.