You’ve cast on … now you’re ready to knit!
First make sure your cast-on stitches are arranged as pictured below, with all the ‘little bumps’ at the underside of the needle. You won’t be working with the tail anymore, so just ignore it.
Next, watch the VIDEO or follow along with the photos. When you finish the row, turn your work:
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- STEP 1: Hold the needle with the stitches in your left hand. Insert the tip of the empty needle into the first stitch, as shown.
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- STEP 2: Hold both needles with your left hand.
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- STEP 3: Using your free right hand, wrap the live yarn counterclockwise …
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- …going behind the needles…
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- …and ending in front between the needle tips.
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STEP 4: Hold the right needle with your right hand again. At the same time, hold the live yarn in your right fingertips to maintain yarn tension.
Bring the tip of the right-hand needle down and toward you so that it catches the wrapped live yarn.
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- Continue moving the needle toward you so that the live yarn passes through the stitch on the left needle and then becomes its own stitch on the right needle.
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- STEP 5: Push off the stitch you just worked from the left needle.
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- STEP 6: Give a little tug on the live yarn to tighten. You now have one completed stitch on the right needle. Now repeat Steps 1-6 until you’ve knit all the stitches on the needle.
When you’ve reached the end of the row, turn your knitting and knit another row. Knitting every stitch in every row is called the Garter Stitch pattern. (We’ll learn more stitch patterns soon.) Continue working in Garter Stitch until your piece is the length you want it, or until you’ve worked the number of rows specified in the pattern. Refer to the illustration to see how to count rows in Garter Stitch. Then bind off. 
