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Step One: Casting On
Step Two: The Knit Stitch
Step Three: Binding Off
Step Four: Purl and Stockinette Stich
Making Buttonholes and Advanced Knitting
Buttonholes: To make a buttonhole, you need to do something called a yarnover. When you get to the point where you want to make the buttonhole, wrap the yarn once front to back around the needle on your right. Don't knit it, just wrap it around, forming another stitch. On the next row, be sure to knit it instead of letting it slip off the needle. Knitting in the Round: Knitting on circular needles is pretty much as easy as knitting on straight needles. You knit or purl as you usually do, except you continuously knit one stitch, either knit or purl. Even so, the material will always come out in a stockinette pattern and there is no way to change that. To make i-cord, you need to use double-pointed needles. Cast on 3 or 4 stitches. Knit to the end of the row. Slide the stitches to the "bottom" of the needle. Turn the needle so that the bottom becomes the top. The yarn should now be coming from the bottom stitch. Knit the stitches again, pulling the working yarn up from the bottom stitch when you knit the first stitch. This sounds confusing, but when you try it, it's not that hard. Keep doing this until the i-cord is the length you want it to be. It usually takes a few rows before you can see the cord forming. Before that, it may look like a knot rather than cord.
