Things You'll Need:
- Yarn
- Knitting needles
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Step 1
Work the knit stitch across the first row. Place the knitting needle with the cast-on stitches in your left hand. With the empty (free) needle, poke it into the first stitch, front to back. The needle should go through a single yarn strand in the front and in front of the back yarn strand of the stitch.
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Step 2
Use your right hand to loop the yarn over the free needle, counterclockwise. This loop should then be pulled through the same way you came into the stitch, forming a loop on the free needle. Slide the old loop, on the left-hand needle, off and let it drop. You have completed your first knit stitch. Continue with the next stitch and each one after, with the same process, until you complete the last stitch on the left-hand knitting needle. This leaves all the new stitches on the right needle and the left needle is now empty. This is the right side of your work.
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Step 3
Turn the knitting needle with the knitted row attached. This needle will now be held in your left hand with the yarn line at the center of your work.
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Step 4
Work the purl stitch across the second row. With your work on the left-hand needle, place the free needle from the back to the front, just the opposite as in the knit stitch. The needle should be placed between the back strand and the front strand of yarn of the first stitch.
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Step 5
Loop the yarn around, as you did with the knit stitch, except it is at the front of your work rather than the back. The yarn should go around the knitting needle counterclockwise. Pull this loop back through the stitch to the back and slip off the old stitch from the left-hand knitting needle. The first purl stitch has been completed. Continue working purl stitches to the end of the row.
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Step 6
Repeat Step 1 and Step 2 for the next row. Then repeat Step 3 and Step 4 for the following row. Continue this process of the stocking cap weave (stockinette stitch) for the desired length.
