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>>Continental Knitting

Lesson 1: Basic Definitions

Lesson 2: Cast On

Lesson 3: Slanting of a stitch

Lesson 4: Knitting First Row

Lesson 5: Purling First Row

Lesson 6: Forming selvage or edge stitch 

Lesson 7: Working in rounds

Lesson 8: Analysing knit and purl stitches

Lesson 9: Types of yarn

Lesson 10: Types of needles

Lesson 11: Knitting gauge & happy knitting

Lesson 12: Basic Shapes

Lesson 13: Correcting Mistakes

Lesson 14: Cables

Lesson 15: Connecting Two Yarns

Lesson 16: Bind Off

Lesson 17: Seaming 

Lesson 18: Picking Up Stitches

CONTINENTAL KNITTING Lesson 4.1

Inserting the needle under the yarn and through the back 


  • Bring the yarn to the back of the work. Insert left index finger under the yarn.
  • Extend the index finger just a little bit. Slightly press thumb and middle fingers together so that the work is in between them. Always keep two next stitches available.
  • You should be able to pull the needle easy enough without slipping stitches of the needle
  • See initial position
  • Insert the right needle into the very first stitch and slip it onto the right hand needle without processing it
  • You can push the left hand needle down with your right index finger or you can pull the first stitch over the tip of the left hand needle with the right hand needle. Both ways are appropriate
  • Keeping the yarn wrapped around the left index finger and behind the left hand needle, insert the right hand needle through the back loop of the next stitch
  • Draw the yarn inside of this stitch forming a new stitch and slip this new stitch onto the right hand needle
  • Repeat last 2 steps as many times as needed to knit more stitches.
  • >>Allover Topics

  • Yarn Over stitch (YO)
  • Magic Loop
  • Slip stitches onto waste yarn or cable needle

  • Twisted knit stitch (Granny Stitch)
  • Make 1 Stitch (M1)
  • 2-Tail Cast ON
  • Connecting 2-colored yarns
  • Bind off stitches in the middle of the work
  • Decrease stitches and changing the slant
  • Making cables without cable needle
  • Slip first stitch
  • Fixing mistake with crochet hook
  • Bind off with crochet hook
  • Two-Needle Bind off

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