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English Knitting
English knitting is very easy to do and once you have learned how to knit a stitch - then you have already mastered the technique!
Once you have cast on the number of stitches required for your project then you are ready to learn what's known as English knitting, sometimes called American knitting or throwing knitting or right handed knitting. Basically, it means the yarn is held in the right-hand. The opposite is to English knitting is Continental knitting, also known as German knitting or picking where the yarn is held in the left-hand.
The first step in how to knit stitch is called opening the loop. With your needle with the stitches on in your left hand and the empty needle in your right hand, the yarn should be to the back of the work. The stitches are facing you with the bumpy part of the loops facing in towards your body. Make sure your working through the single loop and not through the bumpy part when you form the stitches. Slip the tip of the right-hand needle into the first loop from front to back, just like you did when you cast on. Carry the yarn over the right-hand needle going counter clockwise around the needle and making sure the working yarn slides between the two needles. This yarn then makes the new loop that enables your knitting to become full project. Carry on until the end of the road and then you need to decide whether you are simply getting in the same English knitting stitch or if you would like to incorporate how to purl a stitch into it as well.
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