How to cast on yarn to start knitting.
Hello, I'm Kristen and welcome back to my channel STUDIO KNIT.
To begin, you will want to first create
that slip knot and place your needle inside the loop. Today's cast on method
that we're using is called the LONG TAIL CAST ON. I suggest watching this part
first and then we can do it together so the yarn on the right we're holding in
our left hand with our two fingers our index on our middle finger right there
the other strand of yarn we're going to hold it with our other two fingers our
ring finger and our pinky so this is how we are going to hold the tension of our
yarn and then we take our thumb around to the bottom and this is the technique
for holding your yarn in order to cast it on and then with your right hand
you'll take your index finger and you'll place it right on to that first stitch
to sort of help keep it in place as you're casting on so let's do it
together holding your knitting needle in your
right hand you're going to take your left hand and the yarn on the right side
hold it between your two fingers then take your other two fingers and hold the
other yarn tail down next to your palm you'll then scoop your thumb underneath
that yarn and hold it upward
and lastly with your right hand take your index finger and just hold it on to
the stitch and that is going to help keep it in place while we're casting on
okay so once you have your yarn in your hands in this configuration you are
ready to continue on and if this knitting series has been helpful to you
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before you give it a try yourself so the knitting needle is going to go to
the outside of the left and go under we're then going to take our knitting
needle all the way over to the outside of the right strand of yarn and also go
behind it and pick up that yarn and that loop right there we're going to bring it
right in between our thumb loop and that is our next stitch everything sort of
falls free and we lightly pull those two strands of yarn and that is casting on
okay let's rewind and we'll do it together your knitting needle is going
to the outside of the left picking up that yarn and going right through and
then it's going to travel over to the right side to the outside of the right
yarn and it's going to pick up that yarn as well underneath and then that bit of
yarn is going to come through your thumb loop and then with your left hand you
can let all of that go and lightly cinch up your two strands of yarn and there
you have cast on your knitting stitch and then we just keep on
going again you're going to on your right hand that finger sort of holds
those stitches in place and if you need to sort of get your left hand resituated
right there let's do this again and let's do it together so with our
knitting needle we're going to the outside of the left of our knitting yarn
we're going to pick up that strand of yarn with our knitting needle go behind
it and we're carrying that yarn all the way over to the yarn on the right also
going around to the outside bringing our knitting needle behind it and then we're
carrying that yarn up through the loop that we have our thumb holding and we're
going to bring it up our left hand let's everything go and then we pull our yarn
so that it's another nice little stitch and here we have three stitches of
knitting let's do our fourth stitch maybe a little bit faster okay we take
our knitting needle to the outside left bring that yarn over to the right we go
to the outside of the right yarn underneath it and that yarn is carried
through our thumb loop and then we just cinch it up into the next stitch now
let's go a little bit more in real time we go around to the left around to the
right through that thumb loop tighten everything up and there is stitch five
around to the left and around to the right
scoop it up and there is stitch six and you'll just continue casting on for
the desired number of stitches casting on really is one of the most challenging
parts of learning how to knit so if you find yourself getting frustrated or
confused just take a break come back to it again because once you conquer this
everything is easy going
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