Casting on more neatly

Did she cast on using two needles? Or was it using a really long 'tail', holding one needle in her right hand and using the tail in her left? Sorry that dosn't sound very descriptive!

There are a lot of different ways to cast on, so it's difficult for anyone to tell you how the person showed you. How I cast on (although I occasionally use the above mentioned method) is: Put the slip knot on the needle. Almost knit the first stitch, but instead of pulling the old stitch off the left needle, just drop the new loop over it (from the right needle). Now that you have two stitches on the needle, insert the right needle in the space between them. Wrap the yarn around the needle and pull it back through the two stitches. This forms a loop - drop it over the left needle. Repeat until you get the desired number of stitches. Casting on gets smoother with more practice.

My favourite cast on is just to drop half hitches onto the needle. (Basically make a simple loop and drop it on). This gives a very soft, flexible rope effect edging which is easy to pick up if you need to knit into the cast off for any reason, and which has lots of stretch for hat or sock edges. A looped cast on is what I always teach people first if I am showing them how to knit.

well i think that casting on would have to be my least favorite part of knitting i also have gotten better at it with time but sometimes my stitches are sloppy looking sometimes it is hard for me to judge how wide to make whatever it is i am trying to knit and i do not know how many stitches to cast on and i usually end up doing too many or too little stitches so i sometimes i have to cast on multiple times i think it is amazing that you were able to teach yourself to knit from a book though i had to have someone to teach me in person i tried to learn from looking at pictures in a book but came out unsucessful