Quick knitting question: counting cast-on stitches

[afuna]

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 :)

Comments

[afuna]

That is so neat! (Well, all of them are :) ). I think I cannot wait to be able to try seed stitch :x

And thank you - I was reading it the other way around in the beginner's entry, and I was puzzled over why whatever I was doing worked. (And now I know *laughs*)

[synecdochic]

Seed stitch is doing the opposite of the stitch beneath: knit the bars and purl the Vs, and you get seed stitch. Same concept, different arrangement of stitches.

(All knitting is just knits and purls! It's just a question of what order you do them in, and whether you do other things along with them.)