The provisional cast on worked fine for me, but getting the pattern started was a little tough and hard to follow. So I started over with a regular cast on. When I got to the end, I just bound off as I would a normal scarf, but then left an extra long tail to seam the two ends together. I used an end-to-end mattress stitch, which can be a little tricky with the lace components of this pattern. It’s actually quite difficult to find on the right side unless you are looking for it.