Yay for knitting!!! There's nothing more relaxing and enjoyfull (is that a word?) than knitting. It's chocolate chunk cookies, but for the soul!! But what if you can't knit? My motto: Never say can't. Because you can. And I will show you how. The tutorial below doesn't have pictures, but eventually I will add pictures to aid in the learning process, and eventually (don't you just LOVE that word?!) I will have a video to teach you how to knit. My My My. Anywho... enjoy!!!

This is a quick paced tutorial to teach beginning knitters the basics of knitting. I hope it works. Also: Coming soon will be the more in-depth tutorial for beginning knitters.

Are you ready to knit? To start, you will need yarn, and knitting needles and some chocolate. For learning purposes, no specific type or size is required. Later you will learn about gauge. ((P.S. You may want to eat some chocolate in between each portion.))

I. Cast on!
A. Create Loop

B. Pull another loop through.
C. Insert needle and tighten.
D. Later, Rinse, Repeat, Voila!!

II. Knit Stitch!
A. Insert needle
a. front to back, through 1st loop on needle
B. Wrap yarn
a. clockwise (start under, left, up over to the right)
C. Pull yarn through
a. pull wrapped yarn through the loop (1st stitch that the needle is sticking through)
1. the loop on the needle in your left hand will have the new loop on the right needle coming out of it.
D. Slide Off
a. slide the loop you just came out of off of the stitch, but keep the yarn wrapped around the right needle on the needle. Just let it fall in between the two needles.
E. Lather, Rinse, Repeat, Voila!

III. Purl Stitch (not from clams :P)(Reversed of the Knit Stitch)
A. Insert needle (back to front, through 1st loop on left needle.)
B. Wrap yarn (counter clockwise; over the top from right to left)
C. Pull through (pull yarn back through loop)
D. Slide off (slide stitch off the same as with the knit stitch.)
E. Lather, Rinse, Repeat, Voila!

IV. Bind off!
A. Knit into 1 loop.
B. Knit into a second loop. (you will now have 2 loops on your right hand needle.)
C. Use left needle to slip the first stitch you knitted over the second. (There will now be 1 stitch on the right needle)
D. Knit into 1 loop. (2 stitches on right needle)
E. Repeat C.
F. Repeat D and E until there are no more stitches.
G. When the last stitch is bound off on the right needle (only 1 stitch) cut yarn and pull through stitch. This will knot it.

Tada!! You have just successfully knit!!! Yay!! You can now knit anything, mostly. If you combine knits and purls (one row knit, and then a row purl, knit, purl, etc.) you have Stockinette Stitch. If you just knit every row, it is Garter stitch. Now go eat some chocolate. You deserve it.