These simple instructions will help you be able how to cast on and to make a knit stitch, which is also known as garter stitch. If you follow these simple instructions exactly, you should be able to complete a 7" by 9" block, which will give you great practice as this is the basics of any knitting.

buy or find any wool/yarn of any colour or colours.

A pair of knitting needles  - Size 8, 14"- long knitting needles

A Yarn needle with big eye

A Small pair of scissors (to cut the wool/yarn with)

Casting On

Step 1: Make a slip knot on the shaft of one of your knitting  needles. This is your first knitting stitch. 

Step 2: Place the needle with your stitch in either you right or left hand (whatever one you feel comfortale with) whilst holding the other needle in right or left hand, which will allow you to control your yarn. Insert point of the needle, from front to back, into the slip knot and under the left needle.

Step 3: Hold the needle still in your hand, and move your fingers over to brace needle.

Step 4: With your  index finger, pick up the yarn/wool from the ball.

Step 5: Release your  hand’s grip on the needle, and use your index finger to bring yarn/wool under and over the point of right needle.

Step 6: Return your fingers to  needle, and draw yarn through stitch with point of ight needle.

Step 7: Slide point of  needle into back of new stitch, then remove  needle.

Step 8: Pull ball wool/yarn gently to make the stitch fit snuggly on the needle. You have now made one stitch (this is called casting on), and there will now be  two stitches on the needle (slip knot is counted as a stitch).

Step 9: Insert point of knitting  needle, from front to back, into stitch just made, and under left needle. Repeat Steps 5 to 9, 26 more times, until you have 28 stitches on your knitting needle.

These instructions complete your cast-on row, which is the way all knitting is started.

First Knit Row

Step 1: Hold your knitting needle with stitches in the hand you feel comfortable with; insert point of the other knitting needle into your first stitch, from front to back, just as in casting on.

Step 2: With your index finger, bring yarn from ball under and over point of right needle.

Step 3: Draw your wool yarn through stitch with the knitting needle point.

Step 4: This step is now different from casting on: Slip loop on  needle off, and anentirely new stitch will be created.

Step 1: Knit your first 2 stitches; insert the needle into the stitch you knitted first, and pull it over the second stitch this is you starting to cast off or finish your knitting.

One stitch is now casted off.

Step 2: Knit one more stitch, insert your needle into first stitch on your knitting needle, and pull it over thesecond stitch; Another stitch is bound off; don’t cast off too tightly.

Repeat Step 2 until you are left with one stitch remains; now cut your wool/yarn, leaving 6" at the end. With your needle draw the end up and through your last stitch to secure it.