Youhave now casted on all your stitches its now time to start knitting!
The next process you will do in knitting is called making the 'Knit' stitch, this very similar to the first step, its simply just making your knitting longer. To do this you must....
With the yarn at the back of the work, insert the right hand needle from left to right through the front of the first stitch on the left hand needle.
Wind the yarn over the right hand needle
Pull through a loop
Slip the original stitch off the left hand needle
...Then repeat until all the stitches have been transferred from the left to the right hand needle.
Easy pweasy!... Hmmmm! don't worry if you don't get it straight away... I didn't! Just keep practicing and when you do finally get it... You'll feel amazing!
My"something amazing" that I'm planning to make this month is a knitted hair band. I'll start it on the 28th...... and I'll show you my final outcome and my progress every few days. Also I will be holding a competition to see who is the best at casting on, and the winners prize will be the beautifully knitted hair band. OOoooOOooO you lucky people, you!
Lets... Continue to cast on! The casting on method i like to use is called 'Knitted cast on', And this will be the one I will be teaching you guys! I hope this isn't to confussing I tried to make it as simple as I could, I also have a video to help you guys! I have also added another casting on method, called 'Thumb cast on' The video is below!
Anyway! Casting on...
Start with needle that your slip knot is on in your left hand, and the other needle in your right.
Slide the right hand needle into the loop on the left-hand needle from front to back, then loop the yarn that is attached to the ball over the point of the right-hand needle, going counter clockwise
(Here's the only tricky part!!) Then, You will need to slide the right-hand needle back out from behind the left-hand needle, while keeping the loop you just made on the right-hand needle and the slip knot on the left-hand needle.
Keep holding onto the yarn with your right hand so it doesn't get away from you. Slowly slide the right-hand needle down so the loop gets close to the tip of the needle, but does not slide off. At the same time the right-hand needle will be coming out from behind the left-hand needle.
When the right-hand needle just comes out from behind the left-hand needle, give the right needle a little push with your left index finger to push the needle in front of the left needle.
Now all you have to do is slide the loop that's on the right-hand needle onto the left-hand needle, above the slip knot loop.
Now you have two stitches!!! This isn't the way you finish a knit stitch though, but all the other steps are the same, so once you get your cast on finished, you'll be ready to roll with the knit stitch.
To cast on the desired number of stitches, just keep repeating these steps until you have the required number of stitches on your needle.
Casting on is simply the way that you get stitches onto the needle so that you can start knitting. First of all you will need to make a loop to knit on. To do this you will need to make a Slip-knot on one of your needles.
Making a slip-knot To do this you will need;
Wool [yarn ball]
Two needles [The size of the needle depends on the size of your wool - should say on the wrapper]
Okie dokie, the slip-knot...
To make a slip knot, hold the yarn so that the tail of the yarn ball is hanging in front of your hand.
Wrap the yarn loosely behind your first two fingers of your left hand. The yarn should loop all the way around your fingers clockwise.
Take the part of the yarn that's attached to the ball and slip it back under the loop behind your fingers
Then slide this off your fingers, pull to tighten slightly, and slip it over the needle.
....or see video below, cause that description is pretty confusing!
I'm Charlotte McKenzie I'm 19 and I love knitting! I have only been doing it for a short time - but already I'm addicted. My main aim in this blog is to make something amazing - Im not sure yet - but when I have decided you'll be the first to know!! I have only made scarfs so far.... But! Im hoping to learn something new to make each month, and ill show you my progress on here.I will also teach anyone who is willing to learn the basics of knitting. I'll teach how to cast on/off and how to make simple patterns. Also, if you have any suggestions or comment feel free to share them with me!
My name is Charlotte McKenzie, I'm a presenter based in the Midlands and one of my FAVORITE hobbies is blogging! I'm a absolute sucker for the 'net! So I decided to make a blog on my favourite thing... KNITTING! Ahem.. Yes, Knitting! ;-)
