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Hi, this is Kristen with GoodKnitKisses
Welcome back.
And I'm here with my friends at AllFreeKnitting.com
To show you some of the basic simple stitches
that you need on loom knitting.
Today, I'm showing you the knit stitch
I've made a little swatch here to show you
what it looks like
and I'm gonna produce it on the same loom that I made this stitch from.
I actually use two strands on this.
I've got a white and a blue just to show you how tight that it can weave it.
So, let's get started.
I'm gonna put this down. I also want to show you
I just did a tutorial on doing the purl stitch
This is how a purl looks like.
Next to the knit stitch.
So that you can kind of see the difference.
And when you weave a purl, on the back it looks like a knit stitch
So, if you get confused on your work
You actually see the back of the knit stitch, which kind of look like a tight purl.
Just know which is the front side of your work and which is the back side.
But you can make some things reversed.
So I just wanted to clarify that.
This actually, here while I'm at it, I just show you what an e-wrap stitch
or like some people call it stockinette or "simple stitch"
This one right here has the same two strands. I'm working it
Like I did the knit, if you notice, it's kind of a looser looking stitch
See how tight and uniform this is
and all of sudden it becomes this way
If you notice, really quickly, I actually like see the stitches side by side
If you notice, this is really tight and loose.
and it looks like the main body is these two stitches here
but when it becomes an e-wrap it actually sort of divide and it looks like this is the ribbing of the stitich.
So, it's quite an interesting work up
I encourage you to play with stitches and make litte swatches to yourself to kind of see what they look like
If you are new to loom knitting or new to knitting in general
But for our purposes today, I'm gonna show you what the knit stitch looks like on the loom.
Thanks for tuning in.
Just a moment, I will start this
Okay, we gonna start with a slip knot
We just want to wrap this around here
grab the back over the front
and do it one more time around the tip of your finger
Just a quicky slip knot
We just gonna grab a long loom.
You can again use this on a circular loom if you like or a round loom
We just gonna stick the tail inside.
And we gonna get started.
You can cast on any way you like.
I'm just gonna do an
e-wrap to cast on right now.
So I just gonna take this go around the back
and e-wrap that making a small "e".
So the inside where the "e" where it crosses is becoming this "e"
and all my knitting is gonna fall down in here
I'm just gonna grab four pegs here
And now we gonna go back.
And on the purl stitch we put this working strand underneath
On the knit stitch, we gonna put it on the top
Now, we gonna actually to grab it from [I'm just going to make that my slip stitch]
And we gonna grab this from under the loop
to do the knit stitch
Go underneath the loop and get our yarn
and pull it down.
And now, we gonna take off the old and on with the new.
And go ahead and pull that.
So, again. This is laid on top.
We gonna go underneath.
Grab the working strand
Make our own new loop
Pull off the old
and put on the new.
Again. Put the working yarn on the top.
Go from under the old loop
Grab the top pull it through, making a loop.
Replace it with a new one
Pull it again.
Last one
Go under,
grab the top
pull it through
Use this little groove as a guide
for your knitting tool
Pull off the old
put the new back on
and then we gonna make this first one a slip stitch
We gonna go back around
and just skiping that first one
Go on top. Still again.
Grab under
Pull that loop
Put the old one off
Put the new one on.
Just to kind to slow it down and show you
I got this on top.
I'm going to scoop my
knitting tool under here
And when I grab this
I'm going to kind of find this groove.
And I'm actually touching this groove
and pull it this up
So that way, I really know that I have it all
instead of pushing down with some force on to this groove.
That way, I know that I have it.
I'm very sure.
So, that is how you make a knit stitch.
Just keep continuing.
When you see a small "k" in your pattern,
that mean knit and this is what you will do
The term "knit" also "knit over"
just mean when you are throwing a little loop over the pegs
in loom knitting a lot of times people say "knit it off"
you are knitting off
It could be what ever stitch you are working on
but the actual term "knit" K-N-I-T, just by itself means to do this stitch.
And you can make lots of different stitch pattern with the knit stitch.
This is a very basic one to use
Thanks for tuning in to GoodKnit Kisses.
I'm Kristen, have a great week.
And happy looming.
(Music) [For more "knit" stitches check out U-Knit, Flat Knit & E-wrap]