So we have two needles, a cake of yarn beautiful Darn Good Yarn, and bulky and we have two hands and we're going to create a stockinette stitch today. So we can do our six inch what I've discovered is with my gauge which is trying to stitch and see how many stitches you get per inch. I ended up with six inches for every two inches so I'm going to do 18 inches. To do that for my cast on I'm going to pull out about this far, make a slipknot, one needle, and this is the long tail cast on note I have a long tail over here okay. Yarn goes over the thumb goes up, needle goes under next to the thumb, this side goes around the needle and then you just pull it right through. Over the thumb, under the thumb around and through you have three stitches already. Over, under, around. So now I got 18 stitches so turn it around I get my needle, and then we're gonna do a row of, we've got the cast on. You basically created right now if you look it's almost like a purl stitch there so, you're gonna start with your first knit stitch and you're going to do a row of knit. And what I do to make sure that the edges don't curl in on the end is a trick I learned from my mother, basically you slip so you put your needle in and you slip it off the needle tighten it just a little bit, and then you can continue knitting. Now they're two ways of knitting, a lot of people do it differently, do it this way the old-fashioned way and then you can also do a speedy way. You could do the continental stitch, just basically putting your needle in taking it through
the first row is a little harder to do because it's a little loose, the stitches, so you just keep doing this, basically all the way across. So there's your first knit row and then you turn around and you're going to do a purl row which is very simply just putting your needle under there, for people who are just starting out knitting right there okay and wrap it around and then pull it through, and then under wrap it around and pull it through under, wrap it around and it pull through.
You have a knit stitch on one side what we'll call the right side and a purl stitch we will call the wrong side or the other side because nothing is wrong, and then you just keep doing it so you're gonna have all knit stitches on this side and you're gonna have all purl stitches on that side. Okay so now we've had two or three rows of about four rows I got almost an inch here okay and this is what is starting to look like. As you can see you've got all your knit stitches, these are knit stitches once you tick it if you're beginning and you haven't done this before if you're a pro well you know what I'm talking about it's okay. So here's your knit stitches and those your purl stitches and you're gonna have two sides so we're just gonna keep going for a while. Basically you want to have a ruler nearby and once again as I say you always want to slip the first stitch of every knit and every purl stitch just slip it that way you're not gonna get a curl. So we're just gonna keep going, we're just gonna knit on one side and we're gonna purl on the other. Okay so here we are our stockinette stitch is almost completed, it’s almost six inches I just measured it so you'll have to trust me it's six inches this way and one way you can start to check is as you're going along just go like that if you got yourself this nice little triangle you know that you're pretty good. Okay ready to cast off so basically a simple cast off is for people who are just beginning is do a knit stitch, do another knit stitch and then put one needle in the first stitch that you've got and then bring it around and pull the second stitch through now you have a first stitch, and the second stitch. Bring your needle through the first stitch pull the second stitch through. There you go easy as pie!
Okay so we've almost got this puppy ready to go, just get to the end knit, your last stitch yeah you can use a needle or since I have my handy-dandy pocket knife with me. Give yourself enough to sew in when you get to that point, pull it out a little bit, take the end, pull it through.
Basically what you can do is just sew it in when you put your big needle you could just weave in the ends. That's really what you want to do. You create this kind of cast-off and there you go there's your stockinette stitch and your six inch square.
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