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thumb method |
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Before you can start casting on you need to make a loop. Take the yarn from the centre of the ball as this stops the yarn rolling about when you are knitting. (For the thumb method you will need to leave a length of yarn roughly 6 times as long as the width of your intended piece of knitting).
Fig 1
Hold the loose end of the yarn in your left hand and the needle in your right hand. Form a loop with the left thumb by placing the thumb under the yarn from behind and then move the thumb upwards to form a loop.
Fig 2
Place the loop on the needle and keeping the left thumb in place.
Fig 3
use the yarn from the ball in your right hand, to wind yarn round needle clockwise.
Lift loop over needle and remove thumb. Pull left-hand yarn tight.
Continue until you have sufficient stitches.
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two needle method |
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Fig 6
Make a loop as before and place on left-hand needle.
Fig 7
Pull the right-hand needle through the loop from the front. Wind the yarn round needle clockwise.
Fig 8
Pull loop through stitch, and place loop on needle.
Now you have stitches.
To create a neat edge the remaining stitches are cast on slightly differently. Put the right-hand needle through between the 1st and 2nd stitch, then pull loop through and place on left-hand needle as before. Continue until you have sufficient stitches.
Now that you have cast on your stitches, you need to learn how to knit a stitch! |
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