KNITTING TUTORIAL: Knitted Cast-on Photo and Video Tutorial

There are as many ways to knit as there are knitters, but we're going to show you how we get started! Our in-house expert knitting teacher Debbie has made a video for you and our founding editor Kate is here to show you how she works the knitted cast-on in photos.

So grab your needles and let's get started!

Video Tutorial

Photo Tutorial

Make a slip-knot and place it onto your left-hand needle. The yarn which is attached to your ball is known as the working yarn. Hold this in your right hand.

Pick up the second needle in your right hand. Insert the tip into the stitch on your left-hand needle as shown below. The tip of the needle is entering from the front-left to the back-right. You may like to use the fingers of your left hand to hold the stitch in place and to hold the yarn tail out of the way so that it doesn't get confused with your working yarn.

With your right hand, wrap the working yarn around the tip of your right-hand needle. The yarn should travel clockwise around the needle, under (right to left), up and then over (left to right). Experiment with how the yarn feels most comfortable in your hand when making this motion as this will be the action you repeat most often as a knitter! Keep the yarn tensioned in your right hand, try to find a way to make this motion without letting go of your needles if you can.

This is the magic part - you're about to create a stitch. Keep hold of your working yarn and use your right-hand needle to hook/pull the loop of yarn on your right-hand needle through the first stitch. You will now have one stitch each on your left-hand and right-hand needles.

Now you're going to take the stitch you've just made and slip it from the right-hand needle to the left-hand needle.

And that's it! You can cast on a stitch! Right now you'll have two stitches on your left-hand needle and none on your right-hand needle.

Repeat Steps 2-5 until you have as many stitches as you need!