How to Knit Stitch (Knitting Technique)

4-Steps of the Knit Stitch Technique

Preparation

Begin by casting your stitches onto one knitting needle using your chosen cast-on method. As an American knitter, I teach the Knit Stitch using the American (or English) Method, demonstrated in all my video tutorials.

Step 1: Prepare knitting needles and yarn to knit

• Hold the needle with the cast-on stitches in your left hand.
• Hold the needle without any stitches in your right hand.
• With the yarn in the back of your work, insert the right needle into the front of the first stitch. You’ll insert your needle to the left of that stitch and through. Your right knitting needle will be underneath your left needle.

Step 2: Wrap yarn around the needle

• Wrap your yarn around the right needle from back to front, so that it rests between the two needles.

Step 3: Slide the right needle with yarn on it

• Slide the right needle down and bring the point forward through the stitch, bringing the yarn with it.

Step 4: Slip the old stitch off the left needle

• Slip the old stitch off the left needle. Make sure you only slip that first stitch off of the needle, don’t let any of the others off the needle yet.
• Now the new stitch is on your right needle.

Knit Stitch to End of Row

• Repeat these four steps for each stitch on your left needle.
• At the end of the row, all the new stitches are on your right needle now and your left knitting needle is empty. 
• You will now switch your knitting needles so that the empty needle is again in your right hand. Begin once more by knitting with the first stitch and beyond.

Remove Stitches from the Needle

Once you have completed your swatch, it’s time to take the stitches off your needle securely. Simply follow my lesson to cast off in 5 easy steps here >