This elevated version of a long tail cast-on creates the look of a knitted braid by working your long tail cast-on alternating colours. It adds a nice edge to a project like Aleks Byrd’s Elupuu hat that uses this cast-on – a great first project!

You can try out this technique in the following patterns from Aleks:

- Elupuu

The hat pattern shown and mentioned at the beginning is Elupuu. Pattern available from www.aleks-byrd.com and Ravelry