beginning kids knitting handouts

BINDING OFF

©2005, Angela Goldman. All rights reserved. You may not copy this handout without my written permission.

1. To bind off your stitches, you need to start by knitting 2 stitches onto your right needle.

2. Insert the tip of the left needle into first (bottom) stitch on the right needle as shown below:

3. Pulling the yarn fairly taut with your right hand, lift the first stitch OVER the top stitch on your right needle.

4. There should only be one stitch on your right needle. Your first stitch will be bound off.

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.


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 of your right thumb and pointer. Your yarn should form an “O”.

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”.

4. Pull the yarn through to the front of the “O” until you have a loose loop

5. Keeping hold of the loose loop, pull on the yarn in your other hand.

This is your slip knot!!


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 1 needle. Pull gently on the yarn strands to 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:

2. Roll your left thumb over the yarn and point it back up so the yarn around your thumb as shown:

3. Slide the tip of the needle up through the yarn loop on your left thumb.

4. Wrap the working yarn (coming from the ball) behind the tip of the needle and bring it in front:

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.


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.

2. Insert your right needle through 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”.

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

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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