It's time to learn the KNIT STITCH.
Hi, Guys, I'm Kristen and Welcome to Studio Knit.
Today is the big one!
We're actually going to knit, finally, right?!!
I know, I hope that the information leading up to this point has been very helpful.
And now we're finally getting into the meat of it.
You are going to KNIT.
So, you have your Tools, you've created your Slip Knot, and you're raring to go.
So let's do this together.
I encourage you to first watch, and then do.
And you know, with the power of video and pausing, you can go back and forth, but we're
going to try to do this really slowly so you don't have to be pausing so much because I
want your hands to be focused on your knitting needles because that's what we're doing, we're
knitting, right?
Okay, let's get started, here we go!
In this Knitting Series, I am teaching the American Method of Knitting, it's also called
the English Method.
There is another way to knit you may come across called the Continental Method.
Since I am an American, and this is the technique I use while teaching all of my knitting tutorials,
this series will only use the American method of knitting.
All of my videos teach how to knit right-handed.
Sorry, lefties!
Creating a Knitting Swatch.
In this Series, we will be knitting up a little sample swatch.
We'll focus on enjoying the process of knitting.
Knitting for Knitting’s Sake, as it were.
I encourage each individual knitter to develop at your own pace, finish your knitted swatch
when you are ready to do so, rather than furiously knitting a specified number of rows to keep
up with the rest of your fellow Studio Knitters.
In Weeks 3 and 4, I will be sharing many cute Beginning Knitting patterns and projects that
you’ll be ready to tackle at the end of this Series.
Before we begin knitting, first take your yarn and create a Slip Knot from earlier this
week and then Cast On your stitches, I'm recommending 20 stitches, onto one knitting needle using
the long-tail cast on method.
I encourage you to watch me do the knit stitch one time and then after that we'll do it together.
Hold the knitting needle with the cast on stitches in your left hand.
Hold the knitting needle without any stitches in your right hand.
And I'm just skootching my stitches up toward the point 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.
Your right knitting needle will be underneath your left needle in sort of a criss cross.
STEP 2.
Wrap your yarn around your 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.
Make sure 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.
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So now let's do it together.
Step one, 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 is in your right
hand.
Make sure that your yarn is behind those knitting needles.
Take your right needle and insert it into the front of the first stitch.
You'll insert your needle to the left of that stitch and through.
I'm going to take mine out and do it one more time and you can just keep your needle in
if you did it the first time around.
One more time.
I'm taking the right needle into the left of that stitch.
I'm 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 onto 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 counter clockwise
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 our 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, bring 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 your
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 hop around, just get him under control keep him
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's step 2, now step three is sliding it down bring the point forward, bring the
yarn with it, and step four 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 your 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.
Action Item of the Day!
Keep Knitting!
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.
Tomorrow in Day 8, it will be a lot easier, we are just going to sit back and take a closer
look at the difference between a knit stitch and a knit row.
And now you can check off in your knitting series planner.
And if you still need to complete your knitting tools haul, I do have a link in the description
below on where you can purchase some inexpensive knitting tools online.
So how'd that go, guys?
Let me know down in the comments below.
Do you feel like you've finally are a knitter?
Like, the light has come on and now you know how to knit and now the world is totally open
to all kinds of possibilities?
That's my hope.
So let me know down in the comments below how it's going, make sure, if you're not already,
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If you haven't yet, what else do you need to do?
Watch more videos!
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and I'll see you next time, guys!
Bye!