Cast On

• 1). Position your knitting needles by stacking them on top of each other, perpendicular to the ground. Hold the needles firmly between the thumb and pointer finger of your dominant hand.
  
  
• 2). Pull a length of working yarn out of your ball. Drape the yarn over your bottom needle, and hold it in place with your thumb.
  
  
• 3). Wrap the length of yarn over the top of the bottom needle, between the two needles, then under the bottom needle. You have completed half of an 8 and made your first two cast-on stitches
  
  
• 4). Complete the second half of the 8 by wrapping the yarn back over the top needle, back between your needles, and under the bottom needle. You will now have four loops on your knitting needles.
  
  
• 5). Continue in this pattern--over, between, under--until you have the correct number of cast-on stitches as indicated by your pattern. You will have half the stitches on the bottom needle and half on the top needle.
  
  
• 6). Using another knitting needle, knit into the cast-on stitches on the top needle. Continue knitting until you come to the bottom needle.
  
  
• 7). Knit into the cast-on stitches of the bottom needle through the back loop rather than the front loop, to prevent twisting your knit stitches. Once you have finished knitting all your cast-on stitches, continue knitting as indicated in your knitting pattern.