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Hi there. I'm Krista from RainCityKnits.
Thanks so much for tuning in.
Today I'm going to show you how to knit a stitch
using the cast-on stitches from our previous video.
In order to
knit our first stitch, we're going to take
our needle with the stitches we cast-on
in our passive hand ensuring that the stitch
attached to the active yarn
is the closest towards the tip
such as this. Now you're going to take your empty needle
in your dominant hand
and you're going to - I'm going to try and flip around for this for this so it's less confusing
Sorry about the dye on my thumb. I've been busy dyeing some yarn today.
So
here we have
our needle
and our yarn
and i'm going to insert
the tip of the needle
through this little gap
that has formed at the bottom of the stitch.
So as you can see
I'm to stick it
through there
from front to back
The empty needle should be underneath
the other stitches.
Holding the yarn
in our dominant hand firmly tensioned,
we are going to wrap the yarn around
the bottom needle
which is the one with no stitches.
From back to front like this, and so now here's another angle
You can see
the yarn is doing something funny.
So basically,
our needle with our cast-on stitches is on the bottom.
Needle with active stitches is on the top.
And what we're going to do
is
we're going to pull that yarn through the middle
and there you go. You can see you now have created a stitch on
our active needle.
The next step will be to
pull the old stitch off this needle, so to do that
slowly slide
that stitch off.
Right, here we go again.
We're going to go insert
the tip of our active needle
through the next stitch from
front to back
and making sure that the active needle is underneath
the other one
We're going to
wrap
the yarn back to front on the dominant needle only.
And we're going to
pull the tip through.
And then we're going to slide the stitch off the other one.
Again,
put the tip
through
the next stitch, through the bottom front to back
wrap it
around
and then
pull that stitch through.
So hopefully that gives you a good idea of how to knit a stitch
I will be right back.
So I have knit to the end of my row as you can see here.
My slipknot stitch from the beginning is on my other needle.
and I would like to mention there is a weird length of yarn in between the
two. This is something that
I have experienced a lot in knitting and I think has to do with
the provisional cast-on method that I use. So next time we're going to show you different
method of casting on, but for the purpose of today
we're just going to pull that yarn
and pull that slipknot off. So you can see it's gone.
When you hit the end of a row,
your going to need to turn
your work. So essentially, all you're doing is
turning the needle 180 degrees
so that
the leading yarn
is now at the front of the needle. You simply repeat the same process that you
followed
in the previous row.
So
yeah, that's it.
As mentioned, next week I will show you how to do a long-tail cast-on
which is fairly new to me too.
So that's neat, we will be learning together.
I also want to mention
it gets easier so
When you're learning to knit, you will make mistakes. You will drop stitches.
You will have to do undo your work many times.
This is very typical.
But it's also really worthwhile and I promise that it gets easier. So I hope
you'll stay tuned
and follow along next time. Again, I'm Krista from RainCityKnits.
Thank you so much for watching. Have a good one.