Basic Knitting Patterns, Beautiful Results! 

How to Knit

In knitting, there are only two stitches: knit and purl. Everything else is just a combination or manipulation of these two stitches. 
Here is the knit stitch.

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1. Insert Right Hand Needle (RHN) into the stitch on the Left Hand Needle (LHN) from front to back:

2. Bring yarn (the strand going back to the ball) around the back of the RHN:

3. Bring the yarn through by pushing with the RHN

4. Now slide stitch off the LHN onto the RHN

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