The time has come to pick up your
needles and learn to knit. You need a
ball of worsted weight or bulky yarn
and a pair of needles in the size that
the yarn’s ball band calls for. When
you have those things, you are ready
to put your very first stitch—a
slipknot—onto your needle. You have
probably made a slipknot before, but
there’s a special method for putting
one onto your knitting needle.1 Starting about 10 inches in from the end of
your yarn, make a loop.
2 Pull the working yarn (the yarn coming from
the ball) behind the loop as shown. Insert
the needle underneath the working yarn and
pull it up through the loop.
How to Make a SlipknotMake a Slipknot.
3 Pull the ends of the yarn so that the slipknot sits snugly on the needle.
Insert needle
under this strand