Welcome back to GoodKnitKisses I'm your host Kristen and I will be showing you
a series of knitting videos and normally on my channel you see a lot of loom knitting
and crafts, so you are going to start seeing some needle knitting and this would be
my own style
so stay tuned for that
we're going to show cast on. Let's go ahead and get started
we're going to have this method be very slow if you want something speedier you
may want to watch someone else's video ... i'm actually beginner at this
and so i thought it'd be a great time to film me beginning so we're gonna call
this a beginner level
and some easy cast on
and you can start by making a slip knot or you can tie it around your needle
and it just make it slip knot i just
have the small part in my hand; wrap it around twice; take the back over the front
and then take the back loop over the front again; and then over the tip of your
finger
and i've got a slip knot; we're just going to take it and slide it over our needle take it and slide over knitting needle
all right. We're going to leave it loose right now
and take my second needle
an insert it in. This is what we call knit-wise
and so I'm just taking it
sliding it into the loop
and that's it
hold it down
take the
yarn & holding in my right hand. Let's not worry about technique of
holding your yarn; you're gonna find the easiest way for you to do it.
we're going to wrap
around the back needle
like this
and then we're going to
pull it through
like this
I'm making a really loose to exaggerate the stitches
Ok so we've now pulled this loop out
and now we're gonna take our left needle
who are going to twist it into the front of this loop on the right side and pull
it back
like this
and then let it go.
pull on this working strand
and we've just casted on
our second stitch here. So we've got who got one, two stitches. Now we're gonna take our right needle
and put it into that
loop that we just created
same thing
take our working strand
wrap it
we're gonna pull that on through
so we have a loop on the right
We're going to twist our left
and put it in
the front of this loop here
and then pull it out. Now we've got three. See how it's making
this right here?
that's our cast on edge
We're gonna take our needle, put it in this loop here
go ahead
yarn over
pull that on through
and then take our left needle
go to the front of that loop and pull out
so once you get going,
your going to yarn over
pull this on through
and once you put your left needle in
and get it into that
loop here
you can just keep your right needle in and and just twist it around. So I never
actually take it out. So I was just putting it on this left needle
and then I'm gonna take it and slide it underneath so there's no need to right-hand any so there's no need for me
actually take it out
and then yarn over
pull it through
take our left needle
in the front of that loop
and put it on
before taking it off we're going to put our needle back in
and yarn over again so it's
just like this.
Steps:
Insert needle under.
Yarn Over
Pull the loop.
Twist the left
to right.
Pull it off
and that's one there
so now I've done a few stitches here
what's nice about having a long needle to start with
is that you can really practiced your cast-on
so it doesn't really matter how many stitches we are practicing
to cast on
it just matters that you do you make a lot of them
and this is really just to a rhythm for yourself
and get the feel of casting on
I know a lot of times we wanna jump into, "how i do
the knit stitch?"
"How do I,
how do the purl?"
"You know, I just wanna start!" ;-)
"I just wanna GO, okay?"
..."I'm not worries about putting this stuff on my needles... may needles
...right now." I know;
Well, that's how I felt, too :-)
but the more you cast on, the more you are going to get comfortable with it
and then if you mess up
and you have to
take out your work
and "frog" it. That means "rip it out". like rip-rip-rip it out (ribbit). That's where we get
the word
FROG
... the more you do that the more you may have to go back in cast on again
and... the more familiar you are with casting on,
the
easier it will be
so this is just one method of casting on. There's
other methods out there
I found this one the easiest
for me
to pick up
so I've got several stitches cast on here
now you want to make sure and not make them too tight
You need to be able to
put your needle in
and not um...it's gets loose enough here so if I need to make it
looser I can
but you don't want it to be so tight that you're just struggling to put that
needle back in
so again
we're going to insert the needle, that's what we call knit-wise we call me at my asserts underneath the
underneath the left needle
wrap
pull the loop through
Then twist the left needle to the front of that loop on the right
put it through
and then
tighten it up
not too tight
and that is how you cast on
needles
if you want to use circular needles
you do the exact same thing
so just put your slip knot on
cast on as many as you need
and you'll end up connecting with each other and we can show that in another video
stay tuned for the next videos
on Knit and Purl
Have a great day and Happy Knitting!