Knit Stitch, Continental Method
As in the American-English method, the yarn is always held behind the work when making the knit stitch.
 Holding the yarn, using the Continental method |
Step 1: Hold the working yarn and the needle with the cast-on stitches in your left hand and the empty needle in your right hand. Insert the empty needle into the first stitch on the left needle, from front to back (fig. 6a). The right needle is under the left needle.
 Knit Stitch, Continental Method: Figure 6a |
Step 2: Holding the yarn in your left hand, over the left forefinger and behind both needles, bring the yarn over the right needle from left to right as shown (fig. 6b). Be careful not to wrap it around the left needle.
 Knit Stitch, Continental Method: Figure 6b |
Step 3: Keeping the yarn firmly in your hand, pull the right needle and the yarn loop toward you, through the cast-on stitch (fig. 6c).
 Knit Stitch, Continental Method: Figure 6c |
Step 4: With the new stitch on the right needle, slip the old stitch off the left needle (fig. 6d). Unlike the cast-on stitches, the new knit stitches are held on the right needle.
 Knit Stitch, Continental Method: Figure 6d |
You have just knit your first stitch, Continental style. Repeat until all the cast-on stitches have been knit.
