Knitting Instructions: Make Slip Knot

Video Transcript

"The first thing you do when you're beginning and getting ready to cast on your stitches. Casting on means putting on the stitches you are going to knit. Is you have to make a slip knot. And there are many different ways to do this. Personally I've been doing this so long I don't even think about it. I just twist and make one. But for purposes of teaching, I find it's easier to tell people to take your yarn and wrap it around your fingers, and when you bring the yarn around again, you are going to poke the thread that you've been carrying up through the center, pull that, and then you pull the loop and you've got a slip knot. Which then can be tightened onto the needle. And then you would begin casting on. So I'll show you that again. Take your length of yarn, you wrap it around your forefinger and your middle finger. When you come around after you've made a loop, you're going to poke the yarn through. This is going to be where the slip knot starts. Hold onto your slip knot, let your fingers come out, then you pull the strands. And that's your slip knot. Your slip knot goes onto one of the needles. And you just tighten it up so it's snug and not tight."