Experimenting w/ cast-ons

With some encouragement by knittynay I decided to create a new picot cast-on that would be more to my liking. Rather than having something protrude out w/ the picot cast-on I wanted something smoother, like waves. I call it scallop cast-on.


left: picot cast-on, right: scallop cast-on

It's made of short rows and yarn overs. I initially just made short rows but thought adding yarn overs would make a cute eyelet. Um, I'm no knitting designer 'cuz it didn't turn out as I planned. haha. But I'm learning. I then thought about how I normally make eyelets in my knitting. So I kfb, yo, k, yo, kfb. Then I turned around and k2tog, drop st, k, drop st, ssk. The final outcome didn't look any better than the other way I did it so I just stuck w/ adding short rows and yarn overs. I had tried just adding short rows but I like that the yarn overs made the scallops more pronounced. I wonder if there have been other ppl and patterns out there that have started cast-ons like this too, so it would create a scalloped edge. Or am I the 1st one?

Scallop Cast-on:
Using knitted cast-on...
*CO 5
k1, yo, k1, yo, k1
turn
p1, drop st, p1, drop st, p1
rep from *

This would be a good time to try to knit backward. It's interesting. I'll allow myself to do a few more and see how I get used to it.