Nurse Tea Cosy Knitting Tutorial How to Work the Mid-Row Cast On, Turn and Cast Off for Textured Hair

A quick knitting tutorial showing the mid‑row cast on, turn and cast off that creates the Nurse Tea Cosy’s textured, sticky‑out hair. Ideal if you’ve reached that row and aren’t sure where the cast off should begin.

This knitting tutorial video shows the little mid‑row technique that gives the Nurse Tea Cosy her textured hair, with those tiny knitted protrusions that stick out and make her look wonderfully comic. It’s the part of the pattern where you cast on partway through a row, turn the work, and then cast off on the return row. Because it breaks the normal flow of the knitting, many knitters find this moment confusing and often begin the cast off in the wrong place.

The Nurse Tea Cosy herself is a humorous character, holding her nose with one hand and a soiled bedpan in the other. She’s a light‑hearted tribute to our hard‑working nurses, who deal with some very unfortunate chores that not everyone could face. The textured hair adds to her personality and makes her even more fun to knit.

The video walks through the steps slowly so you can see exactly where the cast on sits, how the turn works, and how to start the cast off correctly. Once you’ve watched it, the whole textured‑hair effect becomes very easy to work.





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