Step 1

Make a slip knot on the shaft of one needle. This counts as your first stitch.

Step 2

Place this needle in left hand. Hold other needle in right hand to control the yarn. Insert point of right needle, from front to back, into the slip knot and under the left needle.

Step 3

Hold left needle still in left hand, and move left fingers over to brace right needle.

Step 4

With right index finger, pick up the yarn from the ball.

Step 5

Release right hand’s grip on the needle, and use index finger to bring yarn under and over the point of right needle.

Step 6

Return right fingers to right needle, and draw yarn through stitch with point of right needle.

Step 7

Slide point of left needle into back of new stitch, then remove right needle.

Step 8

Pull ball yarn gently to make the stitch fit snuggly on needle. You have now made one stitch (called casting on), and there are two stitches on left needle.

Step 1

Hold needle with stitches in left hand; insert point of right needle in first stitch, from front to back, just as in casting on.

Step 2

With right index finger, bring yarn from ball under and over point of right needle.

Step 3

Draw yarn through stitch with right needle point.

Step 4

This step now differs from casting on: Slip loop on left needle off, so new stitch is entirely on right needle.

Knit the first 2 stitches; insert left needle into stitch you knitted first, and pull it over the second stitch and completely off the needle.

Step 1

One stitch is now casted off.

Step 2

Knit one more stitch, insert left needle into first stitch on right needle, and pull it over the new stitch and completely off the needle. Another stitch is casted off; don’t work too tightly.

Step 3

Repeat Step 2 until one stitch remains; now cut yarn from skein, leaving a 5cm end. With needle draw end up and through last stitch to secure it. Thread yarn end into yarn needle and weave end into several stitches to secure it.