BINDING OFF

1. To bind off your stitches, you need to start

by knitting 2 stitches onto your right needle. 4. There should only be one stitch on your
right needle. Your first stitch will be bound
off.

2. Insert the tip of the left needle into first

(bottom) stitch on the right needle as shown
below: Knit another stitch onto the right needle and
continue steps 2-4.

5. When there is just 1 stitch left on your

needle, cut the yarn leaving a 6 inch “tail.” Pull
the “tail” through the last loop to close and
bind off that last stitch.

3. Pulling the yarn fairly taut with your right

hand, lift the first stitch OVER the top stitch
on your right needle.

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 SLIP KNOTS

1. Hold the yarn between your thumb and

pointer finger about 3 inches apart. .

2. Move your left thumb and pointer in front

4. Pull the yarn through to the front of the
of your right thumb and pointer. Your yarn
“O” until you have a loose loop
should form an “O”.

5. Keeping hold of the loose loop, pull on the

yarn in your other hand.
3. With one hand, hold onto the yarns where
they cross. With your other hand reach into
the “O” and grab the top strand of yarn right
below the “O”.

This is your slip knot!!

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 CASTING ON

Pull enough yarn from your ball to match the

length from your hand to your elbow. Make a
slip knot at that point. Place the slip knot over 3. Slide the tip of the needle up through the
1 needle. Pull gently on the yarn strands to yarn loop on your left thumb.
tighten.

1. Hold the needle with the slip knot in your

right hand Grab the short end of the yarn with
the last 3 fingers of your left hand. Your work
should look like this:

4. Wrap the working yarn (coming from the

ball) behind the tip of the needle and bring it
in front:

2. Roll your left thumb over the yarn and point

it back up so the yarn around your thumb as
shown:

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CASTING ON (continued)

5. Pull the needle and yarn wrap through the

loop on your thumb.

6. Slip your thumb out of the loop. Gently pull

on the yarn strands to tighten the new stitch
on the needle. This is your first stitch!

Repeat steps 1- 6 until you have the number of

stitches you want on your needle.

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 The Knit Stitch

1. Hold the needle with the cast-on stitches in

your left hand. Make sure the cast-on edges
are on the right. You are now looking at the
FRONT of the stitch.
3. Wrap your working yarn behind your right
needle and bring it to the front between the 2
needles. (This loop will become your new
stitch!) Be sure that you’re holding onto both
needles firmly where they cross in an “X”.

2. Insert your right needle through the front

of the stitch. 4. With the right needle bring your new stitch
toward you and out through the old stitch.

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THE KNIT STITCH (continued)

5. Slide the old stitch to the end of the left

needle and drop it off. The new stitch will now
be on your right needle.

Here’s a rhyme to help remember the steps:

Go THROUGH the FRONT door (steps

1& 2).
Slip AROUND the BACK (step 3)
Climb THROUGH the window (step 4)
And OFF jumps Jack! (step 5)

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