Can someone decipher this for me

[raelynn146]

I have a pattern for a hat with a bill...I am knitting on 10.5 round needles with a double strand. The pattern begins

CROWN-cast on 61 sts for lower edge, looping sts on with 1 end of yarn. P1 row on right side.

Does this just mean to cast on 61 stitches and then pearl a row and this will become the bottom opening of the hat?

Thank you!!

[fibrenut]

Yep Yep Yep, shore nuf does.

[raelynn146]

Is it a special kind of cast on? I read something about an invisible "looped" cast on and wondered if that was what this meant, but I don't know why that kind of cast on would make sense here....

[fibrenut]

It's called a "backwards loop caston" There is a video for that technique in the video section of this site.
Hope that helps.

P.S. It might be that it has less bulk than the long tailed castons or cabled style and make for less of a bump to interfere with the headband of the hat.

[raelynn146]

thank you!