How to Do the Garter Stitch: Scarf Knitting

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Michelle and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village. We are going to learn how to knit a scarf for beginners and while we are doing that we also go over some basic tips that you need to know to get started in knitting. As we said earlier with a simple knit and pearl stitch two basics and only stitches that we are going to learn while we are knitting. We can make any kind of different pattern that we want that will alter the appearance of our final product. The first stitch we are going to learn is garter stitch. Now there is two excellent reasons for learning garter stitch while we are making our scarf. The first is the garter is very easy stitch for a beginner to learn. All we have to do is continue to knit through every row. Another good reason to learn garter stitch first is because unlike some other stitches it will not row in on itself. But it will stay flat and it would leave us a nice beautiful pattern for our scarf. In fact a lot of the scarf that I make are simple garter stitch scarf. Okay here we are with only four stitches left in our needle in our left hand. We are almost at the end of our row. We would knit the last four stitches and then you can see that the difference that we have now then when we started is that the needle in our left hand has zero stitches on it. While all the needle on our right hand. To continue we simply would switch hands. Because we are doing garter stitch we are going to just began the extra row by knitting again and we can proceed that way until our scarf is the length that we want it to be. Simply continue knitting, changing rows by switching the needles from one hand to another. Then begin again and you can see that this leaves us a very flat laying and very attractive appearance to our scarf. "