Quick knitting question: counting cast-on stitches

So I'm doing the long tail cast on, as per knittinghelp.com. The very first stitch gives me two loops. Do I count that as one stitch, or two?

Google leads me to articles telling me not to count the slipknot, but since this isn't a slipknot, and I'm not sure what a slipknot looks like, I kinda really don't know.


And in other news, I finally finished my first thingy! It's a pastel candy-colored rectangular cloth (I ran out of yarn to make it squarer), complete from cast-on to bind-off, and I have just spent the past several minutes tugging at it with happy satisfaction :)

A day's worth of Twitter (14)

( 14 babbly tweets for 2009-09-21 )

A day's worth of Twitter ($4.00)

20:40:52	—	@Starshadow I am having fun kinda playing around on my own *giggles* at some point I shall look for patterns -- thank you!
20:41:25	—	@Starshadow oh *no* I'm so sorry :( *sends good thoughts*
20:44:31	—	@Starshadow that vine lace scarf is so pretty :)
20:52:46	—	@Starshadow I did! the person who got me into knitting also recommended circular needles to start

Total: 4 tweets

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