| Cast-On |
| Make
a slipknot and place it on the right-hand needle, leaving a long
tail.Place the thumb and index finger of your left hand between the two
threads. Secure the long ends with your other three fingers. Hold your
hand palm up and spread your thumb and index finger apart to make a V
of the yarn around them. You have four strands of yarn: 1, 2, 3, and 4 (Figure 1). Place the needle under strand 1, from front to back. |  |
| Place the needle over the top of strand 3 (Figure 2) and bring the needle down through the loop around your thumb (Figure 3).
Drop the loop off your thumb and, placing your thumb back in the V
configuration, tighten up the resulting stitch on the needle. |  |
| Place the needle under strand 4, from back to front. |  |
| Place the needle over the top of strand 2 (Figure 4) and bring the needle back through the loop around your index finger. |  |
| Drop the loop off your index finger (Figure 5) and, placing your index finger back in the V configuration, tighten up the resulting stitch on the needle. |