KnittingPart 2

A Craft Practiced in Colonial America

Hold the needle with the knitting in your left hand and the empty needle in the right.

Insert the tip of the needle under the yarn in the front of the top stitch.

Front means the part of the stitch closest to you.

Push the needle through the loop so that both of the needles are inside the stitch. Notice how the needles are crossed and the needle in

your right hand makes an X behind the needle in your left hand.

You can hold both needles in your left hand or keep the right needle in your right hand.

Hold the yarn in your right hand.

Hold both needles in your left hand and loop the yarn around the right needle from back to front.

Bring the yarn between the two needles. Notice that your needles are still making an X.

Pull the yarn snug with your right hand.

Start to pull the right needle slowly down towards its tip. You are going to grab the yarn that you just looped around the needle and

make a new loop.

Dip the tip of the right needle under the left needle and bring it to the front.

Don’t let the yarn slip off of the right needle!

Push the needle through the loop about an inch

Slip the new stitch off of the left needle and onto the right needle

Push the right needle under the loop from the front. Only go under the yarn once. End up with both needles inside the loop.

Make an X with the needles.

Pick up the yarn in your right hand

Wrap the yarn around the right needle from the back, around to the front & between the needles.

Pull the yarn snug with your right hand

Pull the tip of the right needle slowly down. Go over the yarn you just wrapped around the needle and push the tip of the right needle down to make a new loop.

Go over the yarn you just wrapped around the needle and push the tip of the right needle down under the stitch to make a new loop.

That’s your next stitch!

Push the new stitch off of the left needle and onto the right needle.

There are two stitches on the right needle. Now start your next stitch.

When all the stitches from the left needle have been knitted and are on the right needle, switch hands! To start a new row, put the needle with the stitches in your left hand and the empty needle in your right hand.