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Step 1
Pull out a length of yarn. Your yarn should be roughly 3 times the length of the edge of your project.
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Step 2
In your right hand, hold the knitting needle. Hold the yarn in your left.
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Step 3
Lay the yarn over the knitting needle. The tail end of the yarn will extend to the front of the needle and away from you. The yarn attached to the ball or skein of yarn will extend from the side of the needle facing you.
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Step 4
Grab the tail end of the yarn between the index and middle finger of your left hand. Slide the ball end of the yarn over your thumb. Hold it with your ring finger and pinkie against your palm. The yarn on each side of the needle and the space between your thumb and index finger should form a triangle.
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Step 5
Now rotate your hand palm up and look at the yarn around your thumb. From this angle the yarn forms a loop around your thumb.
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Step 6
Take the tip of the needle and go through this circle of yarn from bottom to top or from your palm to the ceiling. Take the needle to the yarn, pulling from the needle to your index finger. Loop the needle around this yarn counterclockwise. Keep this loop of yarn tight around the needle.
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Step 7
Take your needle with it's new loop of yarn back through the loop around your thumb. You go the way you came, top to bottom this time. Release the yarn around your thumb and pull that end of the yarn tight. You now have 2 stitches around your knitting needle.
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Step 8
Repeat the actions of holding the 2 ends of the yarn over your index finger and around your thumb. Rotate your hand to create the loop around your thumb and go through the loop, catching the index finger yarn. Go back through the thumb loop. Each time you do this, it will add a stitch. Repeat until you have the number of stitches that you need for your project.
Comments
paganpentacle said
on 2/4/2009 I couldn't visualize this at all :( too many thumbs and fingers, I couldn't figure out what hand was supposed to do what.