Requires:

- crochet hook

- straight needles (US 11 recommended)

1. Make a slip knot in the yarn, between the bobbles.

2. Place the crochet hook through this slip knot.

3. With the knitting needle in your left hand and the crochet hook in your right hand, make sure that the working yarn is UNDER the needle. You can hold it taut with one of your fingers while holding the knitting needles (yes, we need extra fingers at times like these!).

4. Take your crochet hook and hook the working yarn (which is under the needle) between the bobbles if possible, so it forces the yarn to come over the needle, pull it through the slip knot on your hook. You have made one stitch.

5. Then make sure to take the working yarn back around so it sits under the needle.

6. Repeat steps 3 through 5 for as many stitches (minus one) as you need. The last stitch on the needle will be when you remove the loop from the crochet hook and place it on the LH needle. So if you need 8 stitches, cast on 7 with your crochet hook and then use the loop left on the crochet hook for stitch number 8.

We hope you enjoy it!

Posted by Doug of Jimmy Beans Wool

Posted by Doug of Jimmy Beans Wool

Use straight needles (US 10 recommended)

1. To cast on using the Cha-Cha yarn, weave your knitting needle in and out of every other ladder.

2. When you have cast on the desired number of stitches, turn your needle to start knitting.

3. Insert your needle into the first stitch, but do not wrap the ribbon yarn around the knitting needle as you usually would. With this yarn, you hook a ladder onto the LH needle and continue finishing the stitch as normal. You will find a pattern of sing every other ladder as you knit.

We hope you enjoy it!

Posted by Doug of Jimmy Beans Wool

Method One: Slip over

1. Cast on the number of stitches your pattern calls for.

2. With the cast-on edge pointing away from you, slide the 1st cast-on stitch (if you did a Long Tail cast-on, this is the one in your left hand) to the end of the other needle (the right needle for a Long Tail cast-on).

3. Slip the last cast on stitch UP and OVER the 1st cast on stitch - and put it on the opposing needle (Basically, the first and last stitches are just swapping places... the end stitch from the right needle goes to the left needle - and vice versa.)

4. Pull both your working yarn and the cast-on tail tight. Begin knitting!

Method Two: Knit two together

1. Cast on the number of stitches your pattern calls for, plus one (ie, if the pattern says to CO 15, you'll CO 16).

2. With the cast-on edge pointing away from you, slide the first cast on stitch to the end of your left needle, and the last cast on stitch to the end of your right needle, so both are ready to be worked (similar to the method above).

3. Slip the last cast on stitch off of your right needle back onto the left needle.

4. Knit those 2 stitches (the last and first cast-on) together. This will bring your number of stitches down to the correct amount. Begin knitting!

Note: when knitting in the round, you will always knit from your left needle to your right needle (just as if you were knitting on straight needles). Also, if you set your knitting down be sure you always start out with your working yarn coming off of the last stitch on the right needle. Many a knitter has accidentally begun knitting in the wrong direction when learning to knit in the round!

Posted by Laura of Jimmy Beans Wool

Posted by Doug of Jimmy Beans Wool