This is a great beginner way to cast on stitches.
- Grasp the yarn tail with the fingers of your left hand.
- Wrap the yarn around your thumb by bringing your thumb over the top of the yarn strand and down around. You will have the yarn originating from the knitting needle to inside your thumb. It then wraps around to the outside of your thumb.
- Insert the tip of your knitting needle under the thumb loop to pick up the yarn.
- Hold the needle with your right hand and wrap the working yarn around the needle clockwise with your left hand.
- Holding the thumb loop with your left fingers, pass it over and around the needle tip.
- Pull the yarn strands taut to tighten the stitch as needed. Careful of your tension.
