Apr 29 2008
Knitting 101: Day Two
I hope that you’ve had lots of practice with casting on and are ready to move on to knitting! You should have 25 stitches on your needle. If you do, let’s go!
As I mentioned before, I use the Continental method to knit so that’s what I will be showing you. If you find that you’d rather use the English Method, that’s fine, I can place links to a tutorial at the end of the day for you.
Just remember, this is a teaching test project. Try not to make your stitches too tight, they can be loose and it will help you to get the stitches down. Later you can work on having tighter stitches for your projects.
To begin, take the needle with the stitches on it and place it in your left hand. Your empty needle will be in your right hand (if you’re left-handed, do the opposite.) Make sure to keep your yarn in the back at all times. Take your right needle and put it through the stitch on the left needle from the front to the back. You’re going to come up kind of from the bottom. The right needle should be through the yarn and coming up behind the left needle to make a “X”.
Then wrap the yarn around the right needle, grab the yarn with the index finger on your right hand and pull the needle back through the stitch, opposite of what you did at the beginning.
Now with your left hand, push the stitch off the left needle.
You know have knitted a stitch! 
Continue in this pattern for one row. Your row should look like the picture when you are done. If you aren’t sure sometimes which is the right side or wrong side of your work, look at where your tail is from casting on. When you are looking at the “right” side, it will be on the right side hanging down.
Tomorrow we will knit more rows, I want you to keep practicing the casting on and knitting the first row. Until tomorrow!
For more information on the English method of knitting, go to knittinghelp.com .
