How to Knit

Ok, first off I would like to say I’m sorry this is a tad late, I’ve had a few technical difficulties in getting this done, but here you go finally ^_^

To some, knitting seems intimidating and confusing, but when teaching children, I learned that knitting is easier than crocheting when you don’t know either.  Though in teaching my 7 year old son and 10 year old niece, my son was determined to be like mommy, and he’s gotten very good at his chains (we haven’t gotten a moment to go further yet, hoping on his next school break to teach him single crochet), but my niece found it very difficult and while watching me make my duster she got excited about it and I decided for her to learn to knit.  She still has a little trouble with it, but she is doing better than with the crocheting, and picked up the knitting faster too.  But to each his own.

Now for any knit project, these are the tools you will need.  Two knitting needles, or 2 pens, or 2 sharpened pencils, 2 chopsticks, 2 sharpened and sanded down sticks… you get the picture XD.  I once made a dress up scarf for my niece out of 2 Bic pens.  A ball or skein of yarn ( I suggest red heart to learn with).  Something to cut with, they have sewing kits with little scissors, or big scissors, nail clippers, a hunting knife… again you get the picture lol.  Something to measure with, a ruler, a dress makers measuring tape, a carpenters measuring tape, anything that gives you exact measurements of millimeters (for your needle size) and centimeters and inches (for the fabric).   Some patterns only have one or the other, but some have both for those on both sides of “the pond”.

So first, you need to know how to slip knot (the foundation for both crafts).  And then how to cast on, there are different ways to do this, but I’m going to show you the most fundamental way to do so.  Along with the knit stitch, which you honestly now know by doing your cast on.

Now you know the first two most important things about knitting, casting on and the knit stitch, here is the third, purling:

Now here is a neat way to add texture to your piece, the cable.  Again like the cast on, there are numerous ways to do this for different effects, but here is the basic idea:

And now the last, most important thing about knitting, casting off, finishing off, or binding off.

I hope you had as much learning as I did teaching ^_^  Again if you have any questions, leave a comment or shoot me an email at babystewart88@gmail.com and I will be more than happy to help out.

Good luck in your Adventures in Crafting!