Let's Knit -UK (2021-03)

KNOW-HOW

l PRACTICAL GUIDES l ABBREVIATIONS

l STEP-BY-STEP TECHNIQUES l PATTERNS FOR YOUR LEFTOVERS

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PRACTICAL GUIDES

How to cast on (two needle method)

1

Create a slipknot on your left-hand needle, pulling

it taut (but not too tight). Carefully insert the right-

needle into the knot from front to back, passing

under the left-hand needle. Wrap the ball end of yarn

anticlockwise around the point of the right needle.

2

Pull the loop that forms back through the original

stitch (knot) and insert the tip of the left-hand

needle into the new stitch from underneath to transfer

it from the right-hand to the left-hand needle. There

should now be two stitches on the left needle.

3

Repeat Steps 1 and 2, knitting into the top

stitch on the left needle and returning the

new stitches from the right to the left needle, until

you have the required number of stitches.

MITRED SQUARE

Cast on twice the desired

number of sts plus one

£ Row 1: k to one st before

central st, sl 1, k1, psso, k to end

£ Row 2: k to end

£ Rep Rows 1-2 until one st rem

£ Fasten off

We cast on 60 sts. Our

square is knitted in 4ply yarn on

3.25mm needles and measures

12cm x 12cm

Knitter’s

Square of

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