- Carriage at right of bed.
- Pull selected needles (40 is a good number), right out towards you as far as they will go (upper working position or UWP).
- Make a slip knot with the end of the yarn and slip it over the end LH needle.
- Holding tail of yarn in your left hand main thread in your right hand, bring the yarn up between the first two empty needles, then back over the first one of these two.
- Repeat this movement to the end of the bed, starting with the next two empty needles.
- Thread yarn through the carriage feeder.
- Make sure that the yarn from the needles runs in a straight line through feeder and top tension to cone. To achieve this pull any slack back towards the cone
- Pinching the yarn loosely between your LH index finger and thumb and pulling gently upwards, use your RH to slowly slide the carriage across the needles, allowing the yarn to run through your fingers as necessary.
- Stop when the carriage is clear of the LH end stitch.
- Holding the stitches against the ‘gate pegs’ with your left hand, use your right hand to pull small groups (4-5 needles at a time) through the stitches and out to UWP.
- Repeat step 9 to knit the next row.
- Repeat steps 10-11 until you have enough rows of knitting to hang a weight at each end of the knitting. Now you can knit without bringing the needles to UWP.
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