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Dear knitters, hello, my name is Kateřina Chocholáčová and today I will show you the very basics of knitting. This video is mainly for beginners, but maybe you will find a new way of casting on for the more advanced ones. So today we're going to learn how to cast on and we're going to start working on such a narrow basic shawl, which we'll then gradually learn all the basic patterns. So to cast on, we'll take our yarn, we'll take our needles, I recommend circular needles, less strain on the hands, they're easier to knit with than long needles. I'm going to take this yarn, I'm going to measure two to three times the width of what I want to achieve, meaning if I'm knitting a scarf this wide, I'm going to measure about this wide. So, I'm going to thread the yarn on my left index finger, take the needles in my right hand, cast on both needles at the same time so that the knitting is nice and stretchy, not tight, and we can get a good first row in. So I'll take the needles, wrap the yarn on my left index finger, take the other end of the yarn, wrap it around my thumb in this way, and now cast on. I'm going to poke this loop here, so I'm going to twist it, back again, and tighten it. I'll make a loop on my thumb again, down this way, wrap around and back. That's how I cast on the number of stitches they need. Three. Four. Five. You have to tighten up nicely so that the loops are the same here and then the edge is nice and neat. So, cross again, down, loop, loop back, tighten, down, loop, loop back, pull through. I'll show you again. Twist on left index finger, hold with middle finger, tighten yarn, wrap around thumb and now wrap around from underneath, loop back, tighten. Make a loop around your thumb, back, tighten. Make a loop around your thumb, back, tighten. Down, like this, back in the loop, tighten. Now, count the number of stitches. Two, four, six, eight, ten, two, four, six. So now we have sixteen stitches. So we're gonna do four more, so put your index finger on, hold with your middle finger, thumb around, down, up, down, down, up, three, four. Now we have 20 stitches for the basic patterns that we're going to do. We're going to do six more edge stitches, I'll explain why later. So on the index finger, catch with the middle finger, thumb around, bottom one, two, three, four, five, and six. I'll count the stitches again just to be sure. Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty, two, twenty, four, twenty, six and twenty. We've got six and twenty stitches. Now, we're going to take one needle out and we're going to leave the stitches on the other needle. And make the first row and knit it tog. So here we're going to stick our fingers like this, the cancoure that's left here, we've got a twist on our left finger, we're going to poke the first stitch and we're going to knit the first edge stitch like this. Now we're going to knit everything smooth. K is the basic pattern. Usually the first row is always knitted this way, unless you want to knit a stretchy patent. If we want to knit an elastic patent, we'll alternate between knit and purl, we'll get to that in a minute. Now knit and purl in this way. See, I'm going to poke a stitch, pick up the yarn, pull it through. Very simple. On this basic scarf, we're going to do the first few rows in what's called a garter stitch, meaning we're going to knit across. If you're not good at purling, you'll get away with knit and purl for a long time. First, I forgot to mention that we didn't knit the last stitch when it was put on the needle this way, so we just knitted it off so that the edge would be nice and neat and not twist. That is to say, we put this yarn in front of the work, and just like this we worked the last stitch from needle to needle. Reverse the work, the stitch which we have not knitted, will now be knitted in this way, and will now be knitted again. This means pricking the stitch again, picking up the yarn, just pulling it through. Don't look for anything complicated, it's really that simple. It means prick in the stitch, pull the yarn out, prick, pick up the yarn, pull through, prick, pull through. In this way, very simple, don't pull unnecessarily, try to relax your hands so you don't cramp, then it's very difficult to knit. The stitches are not neat, so as loosely as possible just prick, catch the yarn, stretch, prick, catch the yarn, stretch, prick, stretch. Work the row again in this way and do not knit the last stitch again, put the yarn in front of the work and just slip the stitch. Here we have already started to form a garter stitch. So again, we will knit the first unknit stitch in this way and again we will knit only, prick the stitch, catch the yarn, pull through. Knitting garter stitches will definitely come in handy for projects that we need to have straight, separate stitches, like a scarf. If we were to knit the first rows of a scarf with a snap elastic, the scarf would be narrower at the beginning than it will be later in the knitting process, it would be stretchy at the beginning, making the work unnecessarily narrow. Last stitch again. Remove yarn before working. Now, the garter stitch, as you can see, doesn't twist inwards or outwards, it's neat, nice. There, nice start to the shawl. In the next lessons, we'll learn more stitches like purl and combinations of these stitches. For now, thank you, goodbye.
Translated from English to English by artificial intelligence. If you find errors in the text, please accept my apologies
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