How to Knit

When you cast on the stitches, you add more to the initial one on the needle.There are various methods, but the reverse ring method is perfect for beginners because it is easy and allows you to get started quickly.

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   Hold the iron with the loop in your right hand.
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   Stretch the thread that goes to the ball behind your left hand by passing it over your palm. Keep the tail of the yarn – the short part attached to the loop – away so you don't get confused.
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   Place the iron under the thread in your palm.
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   Move your hand away from the wire, you should end up with a loop around the needle.
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   Tighten the loop by pulling the working thread. Here's your first shirt!
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   Repeat the entire operation with your hand and yarn until you have stitched on as many stitches as you want. Each time you do this, you create a point.The very first loop you make counts as the first stitch, and every loop you make is another stitch.Keep stitches straight and even;don't let them turn or it will become difficult to work.Furthermore, this method will allow you to score points wide:working on the narrow ones is really complicated.
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There are various stitches that can be knitted, but the actual one is only one.You could also do a purl stitch, for example.Since we have to start from something, let's start from the obverse.

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   Hold the needle with stitches in your left hand and the empty one in your right. You may need to wrap some yarn around your right middle finger, you may need it as you work.
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   Point the empty needle under the front of the first stitch (the one closest to the tip of the needle) and push it through, so that the right needle is beyond and behind the left.
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   Make sure the working thread, the one attached to the ball, is behind the needles.
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   Take the working thread (not the short one) and wrap it around the right needle clockwise, so that it is between the two needles.
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   Look between the two irons. You should see two holes created by the central wire.

   • Move the right needle up and down to bring it over the left hole.
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   Pass the right needle through the left hole to the front of the left needle. Do this action slowly, making sure that the ring does not slip off the iron.

   • If you are not looking at the needles from above but from the front, the process will be a little different.Start by pushing the iron out of the ring slowly, making sure that the newly wrapped thread does not fall out.It can help to keep the thread taut so the loop stays tight around the needle.
   • Just before the needle is about to come completely out of the stitch, pull the tip towards you, bringing the yarn you wrapped around the needle together.
   • What you are doing is passing the loop through the stitch.The ring just moved to the other needle is a new stitch, which will replace the one made previously.
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   Now that you have a new shirt, drop the old one. Holding the left needle – the one with the stitches still to be worked – bring the tip of the right needle past that of the left and drop the ring from the left needle.So you have a knot in your right needle.The stitch was knitted correctly (if whatever method you used didn't work out, stitch another stitch and try again).
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   Repeat with each stitch until all stitches have been transferred from left to right.
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   Swap needles. Move the worked needle to the left and the empty one to the right.Make sure that all the stitches are the same way and that the work is to the right of the left needle.
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    Knit each row and keep swapping needles. By doing this you will create something to "straight stitch".
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Close to finish your work.This procedure - also called fixing - will transform your stitches into real knitting.

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   Work two stitches.
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   Place the left needle in the first stitch on the right needle, i.e. in the rightmost one of the two.
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   Pass the first stitch over and beyond the second.
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   Remove the left needle leaving the knitted stitch on the right one.
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   Work another stitch and repeat the process until there is only one stitch left on the right needle.
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   Slide the needle out of the shirt. Keep the ring intact.
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   Cut the yarn leaving about 15 cm.
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   Pass the cut thread through the ring and pull. You can cut the thread further so it stays short or, for a more professional look, sew it with a wool needle.
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   Congratulations! You've just finished your first knitting project.
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