It's time to learn the KNIT STITCH
Hello I'm Kristen and welcome back to my
channel STUDIO KNIT in this knitting series I'm teaching the American method
of knitting it's also called the English method there's another way to knit you
may come across called the Continental method since I'm an American and this is
the technique that I use while teaching all of my knitting tutorials this series
will only use the American method of knitting also all my videos are teaching
how to knit right-handed and I'm just scooching my stitches up toward the
point of my left needle here to help me get ready to knit make sure your yarn is
behind your needles step one insert your right knitting needle into the front of
the first stitch you'll insert your needle to the left of that stitch and
then through it you're right knitting needle will be underneath your left
needle and sort of a crisscross step to wrap your yarn around the right needle
from back to front so that it rests between the two needles step 3 slide the
right needle down and bring its point forward through the stitch bringing the
yarn with it step 4 slip the old stitch off the left needle
and make sure that you only slip that one stitch off of the needle don't let
any of the others off the needle yet now the new stitch is on your right needle
oh and before you grab those knitting needles do me a favor
like up this video thanks guys it really helps me out so now let's do it together
step 1 make sure that you're holding the knitting needle with the cast on
stitches in your left hand and the knitting needle without any stitches on
it in your right hand make sure that your yarn is behind those knitting
needles take your right needle and insert it into the front
the first stitch you'll insert your needle to the left of that stitch and
through I'm going to take my doubt and do it one more time and you can just
keep yours in if you did it the first time around one more time I'm taking the
right needle and to the left of that stitch I am inserting the tip of my
right needle into that stitch and now my right knitting needle is underneath my
left knitting needle
okay ready for step two I like to with my left hand I like to sort of hold on
to both knitting needles at this point because we're going to take our yarn
with our right hand this is step two and we are wrapping our yarn around the
right needle from the back in a counterclockwise motion to the front so
that it rests right between those two needles I'm going to undo it and do it
again for you here step two is wrapping your yarn around
the right needle from the back to the front so that it rests between the two
needles okay step three is slide the right needle down and bring the point
forward through the stitch bringing the yarn with it
I'm going to undo it and do that one more time for you step three is sliding
the right needle down underneath the left needle and bringing the yarn with
it now right there is our little stitch step four is slipping that old stitch
off the left needle and make sure you only slip that one stitch awesome okay
now the new stitch is on your right needle and you are ready to continue
knitting the entire row that little yarn tail sometimes likes to pop around just
get him under control keep them in the back there again your working yarn
that's in your right hand right there is what you will be knitting with and let's
do this again step one our right needle is going to go into the front of that
stitch we take our yarn around that step two now step three is sliding it down
bring the point forward bring the yarn with it and step for that stitch right
there slides off the left needle and we have our second stitch let's do this one
more time together okay step one is taking the right needle
into that stitch step two bring your yarn around resting between the two
needles step three bring the yarn through and step four is
taking the stitch off your left needle great continue knitting the entire row
repeat these four steps for each stitch on your left needle at the end of the
row all the new stitches are on your right needle now and your left knitting
needle is empty so then it's time to knit more rows simply switch your
knitting needles in your hands so that the empty needle is in your right hand
continue knitting each stitch on your needle switching your knitting needles
at the end of every row keep knitting the knit stitch row after row there's no
limit to how much you should knit just keep knitting and proudly watch your
knitted swatch grow check out my entire absolute beginner knitting series to get
started knitting now available on teachable thanks so much for watching
and I will see you next time guys.
BYE!