Basic

Knitting
By: Ruth Brown
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Helpful Hints
Do not let your yarn
wrap tightly around
the needle.
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Keep the yarn

held loosely when
wrapping it around
the needle.

Casting On
1. Form a basic slip
knot over one
needle.

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Casting On
1. Loop the yarn around
your right index finger
and hold in place with
right thumb.
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2. With the needle in

the left hand bring the

needle under the loop
that is wrapped around
the right index finger
and slide it onto the
needle.

Basic Knit
Stitch

1. Take a second
needle in your right
hand and bring the
tip under the first
loop on the needle
in your left hand.

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2. Make sure the yarn

is strait and then
wrap the yarn
around the top of the
right needle,
counterclockwise.

Basic Knit Stitch

Pull yarn through the loop with the right
needle and slip the the loop from the left
needle to the right needle.
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Binding Off
Knit two stitches, then pull the second stitch overtop
of the first stitch and let it drop off the needle.
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