Watch this video, and read the post to find out how to cast off in knitting for beginners. It’s an important basic knitting skill to master before you can begin creating beautiful projects. Pause the video to check that you are doing it correctly.

In this post you’ll learn how to knit a dish cloth in easy garter stitch. If you’re new to knitting this is a good starter project for you as it only uses a few of the basic skills. During this project you will need to make a slip knot, cast on, knit in garter stitch and cast off. Don’t worry if you have not yet mastered these skills as the video illustrates them very clearly.

One of the first stitches you need to learn when learning to knit is how to easily create the garter knit stitch pattern. This pattern is created when you knit every row. In this post you will discover how easy it is to master. Practice it until you can do it without thinking because it forms the building blocks of most projects. Once you can do it, there are knitting projects you can do with it!

In this post you will find out how to do the purl knitting stitch quickly & easily. With this new skill you can then tackle easy knitting projects for beginners such as the recommended free hat and scarf pattern which uses only the two basic stitches.