Taylor - Crochet Projects for Winter: Over 15 Crochet Projects Perfect for the Winter Months

How to Cast On

In order to begin knitting, simply make a foundation round of stitches on your needle by the process of casting on.

1. Firstly, do a slip knot by looping strands of yarn into a pretzel-like shape and leave a strand at the end that is at least 3x the width of the thing youre knitting (if your scarf is 8, you will require a twenty four inch tail). Simply slip the knitting needle through the pretzel shape and tug the ends of the yarn in order to tighten it

To begin knitting, you will need to create a foundation row of stitches on your needle by "casting on."

2. Wrap the end of the yarn over your left thumb and the working yarn (ball end) over the left forefinger. Utilize your different fingers to get yarn lengths in left palm. Supplement needle upward through the circle on the thumb.

3. Using the needle, discover the working yarn that is on your forefinger, and draw it through the circle on your thumb. Expel the thumb from the circle. Keeping the yarn finishes secured in palm, reposition thumb, and tighten the new fastening on the right-hand needle. Proceed using these steps until you've thrown on the obliged number of join.

Knit Stitch How-To

Hold the needle with cast-on stitches in your left hand. Then wrap the yarn you are using around your left second finger, and hold it in back of the left-hand needle.

1. Add the right needle from the front to the back into the 1st cast on stitch on the left needle and hence open up a space for a stitch.

2. Get the working yarn with the right needle.

3. Get the yarn through the opened stitch.

4. Push the cast-on stitch off the left needle while holding the middle finger against the 2nd cast-on stitch to make sure that it doesnt slip off. The stitch on the right needle is the brand new knit stitch. Proceed in knitting across the cast-on row. When you have gotten rid of the last stitch from the left needle (completing a row), exchange the needles and return the needle with the stitching to your left.

How to Purl

The purl stitch varies from the knit stitch in two major ways: The working yarn is held in the front of the task rather than from the behind, and the needle is embedded from the behind to the front rather than from the front to the behind. So hold the needle with cast-on fastens in your left hand then wrap the working yarn (ball end) around your left forefinger, and hold it before the work.

1. Then using the right-hand needle, go once again to from the front into the first cast-on fasten on the left-hand needle, opening up a line.

2. Lay the working yarn over the needle from the front to the behind by moving the left forefinger in a descending fashion.

3. Push the working yarn from the front to the behind through cast-on stitch and slip the cast-on stitch off the left-hand needle while holding the center finger against the second cast-on line to guarantee it doesn't accidentally slip off. The line on the right needle is the recently framed purl stitch. Its switch side resembles a V.

How to Pick Up a Dropped Stitch

If you accidentally miss a stitch or drop it while you knit, do not worry, it is easy to fix your mistake with a crochet hook.

1. With the knit side facing you, place the crochet hook inside, from the front to behind and into the loop of the dropped stitch.

2. Use the hook to catch the first horizontal "ladder," and pull it through the loop to the front.

3. Then repeat until all the ladders have been pulled through the loop. Place the stitch back onto the left needle, with the right of the loop on the front of the needle.

To pick up a dropped stitch that occurred on a purl knit, simply turn your work around, and repeat the steps for a dropped knit stitch.

How to Join Yarn

To join a new ball of yarn as you knit, just pause your knitting with the old color while leaving a 6 strand and start using the new ball of yarn, but also remember to leave a long strand of yarn behind. The first stitch is going to be loose, so pull the yarn ends to secure it.

How to Cast Off

The following instructions aids in stopping the stitches from falling apart once they have been taken away from the needle.

1. Knit two stitches. Pull in the left needle into the first stitch, bring up the 1 st stitch over the 2 nd stitch and then altogether completely off the needle. Proceed knitting in this fashion until all the stitches have been cast off. Using a pair of scissors, cut the working yarn and leave a 6 strand behind then tug the tail through the last stitch to fasten it.

2. Using a yarn needle, connect all the ends of the yarn through the backs of multiple stitches, taking up the surface loops only.