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The way that we get loops on the needle to start knitting is by casting on.
And there are several different ways of casting on.
I’m going to show you how to do what’s called the long tail cast on, which I think
is an easy cast on to work with in your first row, especially for beginners.
It’s still the one that I use for everything all the time, anyway.
So we already have our slip knot, which I showed you in the previous video, and we’ve
left a long tail.
I’ve got about a foot and a half here for demonstration purposes.
We have the one loop on the needle that is our slip knot.
Take the tail end of your yarn here, in your left hand, with the needle in your right,
and put your thumb on the yarn like this.
Flip your thumb around, and slide the needle into that loop on your thumb.
Pinch the needle with your left hand pincher fingers, and take the working yarn, the yarn
that’s attached to the ball, and wrap the needle like this.
Grab the needle back in your right hand again, and let go with your left – you still have
a loop on your thumb, right?
Flip that over the top, and tighten it up.
Now you have two loops.
Let me show you that again.
The tail end of the yarn is in your left hand.
Put your thumb on the yarn like this.
Flip your thumb around, and slide the needle into that loop on your thumb.
Pinch the needle in your left hand pincher fingers, letting go with your right, and grab
the working yarn.
Wrap the needle, like this, with the working yarn, and take the needle in your right hand
again.
Let go with your left hand, keeping that loop on your thumb, and flip that loop over the
top of the needle and let go of it.
Pull on both strands to tighten it up.
And you’ll see that we’re getting loops on the needle.
To speed it up a little bit, this is what the cast on looks like.
Okay.
So go ahead and do that ten or twelve times, so you’ll have loops on the needle, and
I’m going to show you how to do the knit stitch next.
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