Cast On

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You Will Need (2 things)

Steps (8 steps, 5 minutes)

1. 1

   Place the needle with your first stitch in the left hand. Hold the other needle in the right hand to control the yarn.

2. 2

   Insert the point of the right needle, from front to back, into the stitch and under the left needle.

3. 3

   Hold left needle still in left hand, and move left fingers over to brace right needle.

4. 4

   With your free right hand, pick up the yarn and wind around the right needle- from the right to left, then between the two needles.

5. 5

   Return right fingers to right needle, still keeping a hold of the yarn, and draw yarn through stitch with point of right needle. Pull the new stitch / loop towards you.

6. 6

   Tilt tip of left needle into the loop and remove your right needle.

7. 7

   Pull ball yarn gently to make the stitch fit snuggly on needle. You have now made one stitch (called casting on), and there are two stitches on left needle (slip knot is counted as a stitch).

8. 8

   Repeat Steps 1 to 7, 13 more times, until you have 15 stitches on the left needle. This completes the cast-on row, which is the way all knitting is begun!