KNIT STITCH

Once you have cast on, you then knit into the stitches you have made to form the knitted fabric. Hold the needle with the cast on stitches in your left hand, with the loose yarn at the back of your work. Insert the right-hand needle from left to right through the front of the first stitch on the left-hand needle (see Diagram 1). Wind the yarn from left to right over the point of the right-hand needle (see Diagram 2). Draw the yarn through the stitch to form a new stitch on the right-hand needle. Slip the original stitch off the left-hand needle, keeping the new stitch on the right-hand needle. To knit a row, repeat these steps until all the stitches have been transferred from the left-hand needle to the righthand needle. Turn your work, transferring the needle with the stitches on into your left hand to work the next row.