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Knit > Knit Stitch
This is the first stitch that most people learn in knitting. For the
knit stitch, always remember to keep the working yarn behind your needles.
If switching from purl to knit stitch, you will move your working yarn from the
front of the work to the back of the work, between the needles, to prepare for a
knit stitch.
To work the knit stitch:
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Step 1: You must first cast on or pick up
stitches to have a foundation of stitches on your left needle. (See
Knit Tutorial Index
for techniques used to cast on or pick up stitches.) |
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Step 2: Keeping yarn tensioned over your left
index finger, insert the needle from front to back through the first loop on
the needle. Keep the right needle under the left needle and the
yarn behind. With your left index finger, bring the working yarn from
the bottom over the right needle to create a loop on the right needle. |
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Step 3: Pull the loop on the right needle through
the stitch on the left needle. |
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Step 4: Moving your right needle, slip the stitch
off of the left needle This completes a knit stitch. Continue to
make as many knit stitches in the row as desired. |