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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 TECHNIQUE Lesson 7.1.1

Magic Loop


  • Cast on 10 stitches using both ends of the needle. Pull one end of the needle out
  • Turn the needle so that yarn from the ball is at the back (away from you)
  • Bring stitches to the middle of the needle and bend the needle dividing all stitches onto 2 halves
  • Pull the bended area of the needle to the left so that one half of the stitches remains at the front and second half remains at the back
  • Continue pulling part of the needle that is at the front to the left until tip of the needle almost meets very first stitch
  • Bring the yarn over the needle located at the back
  • Place a marker on the needle at the back
  • Pull the back needle until its tip meets the first stitch on the needle at the front
  • Process stitches on the needle at the front as if you would work back and forth
  • Move the needle at the back to the front and repeat the same process of pulling needles
  • >>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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