1 00:00:00,651 --> 00:00:02,606 (light music) 2 00:00:02,606 --> 00:00:04,177 - Hi, I'm Edie Eckman. 3 00:00:04,177 --> 00:00:07,072 I'm a knit and crochet designer and teacher, 4 00:00:07,072 --> 00:00:08,532 and I'm going to show you how to do 5 00:00:08,532 --> 00:00:11,615 the magic loop technique in knitting. 6 00:00:13,604 --> 00:00:15,196 To start with, you're going to want to have 7 00:00:15,196 --> 00:00:19,071 a long cable needle, at least a 40-inch cable needle, 8 00:00:19,071 --> 00:00:22,904 with a nice, flexible cable and a smooth join. 9 00:00:23,201 --> 00:00:26,960 We're going to be putting a small circumference knitting 10 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:29,485 on this giant, long cable needle. 11 00:00:29,485 --> 00:00:32,581 I'll cast on a few stitches to get started, 12 00:00:32,581 --> 00:00:34,914 using the long-tail cast-on. 13 00:00:40,513 --> 00:00:44,013 Here I have two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14 00:00:44,631 --> 00:00:47,131 14, 15, let me do 16 stitches. 15 00:00:48,789 --> 00:00:52,642 And I am going to knit in the round on these 16 stitches, 16 00:00:52,642 --> 00:00:55,059 using this long cable needle. 17 00:00:55,135 --> 00:00:59,302 I have to take my 16 stitches and put them onto the cable, 18 00:01:00,004 --> 00:01:03,452 and I am going to fold the cable at the halfway point, 19 00:01:03,452 --> 00:01:06,911 so between, putting eight stitches on each side. 20 00:01:06,911 --> 00:01:08,744 Two, four, six, eight. 21 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,607 I'll just bend the cable here and bend the knitting, 22 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:17,847 and pull out a piece of cable to divide the stitches evenly. 23 00:01:19,107 --> 00:01:23,274 I want to be careful not to let the stitches twist 24 00:01:23,489 --> 00:01:24,572 as I do this, 25 00:01:26,028 --> 00:01:29,945 and I'll turn the work so that the working yarn 26 00:01:30,026 --> 00:01:32,526 is coming off the back needle, 27 00:01:34,630 --> 00:01:37,234 and I'm going to slide half the stitches 28 00:01:37,234 --> 00:01:38,385 onto the front needle. 29 00:01:38,385 --> 00:01:41,225 So you can see I have the needles parallel, 30 00:01:41,225 --> 00:01:44,306 but I have the back stitches on the cable, 31 00:01:44,306 --> 00:01:47,389 and the front stitches on the needle. 32 00:01:48,291 --> 00:01:51,760 Taking my working yarn over the back needle, 33 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:53,915 so I'll have access to it. 34 00:01:53,915 --> 00:01:56,998 I'm going to use this free needle tip 35 00:01:57,372 --> 00:02:00,955 to knit the stitches off this front needle. 36 00:02:01,331 --> 00:02:04,223 So I'll pull the cable out so I have two loops, 37 00:02:04,223 --> 00:02:06,723 one here and one on this side, 38 00:02:07,255 --> 00:02:09,201 and I'll just begin knitting. 39 00:02:09,201 --> 00:02:13,099 The working yarn is coming from the back stitches 40 00:02:13,099 --> 00:02:16,713 toward the front stitches, but not over a needle anywhere, 41 00:02:16,713 --> 00:02:19,546 and I'll just knit these stitches. 42 00:02:22,293 --> 00:02:26,210 This first round is really the trickiest round. 43 00:02:27,863 --> 00:02:29,243 And it doesn't matter if you are 44 00:02:29,243 --> 00:02:31,982 a thrower or continental knitter, 45 00:02:31,982 --> 00:02:34,899 it's the same technique either way. 46 00:02:36,529 --> 00:02:38,612 Now, when I reach the end 47 00:02:39,194 --> 00:02:41,928 of the stitches on that front needle, 48 00:02:41,928 --> 00:02:45,428 I have only done half a round of stitches. 49 00:02:46,136 --> 00:02:47,969 I need to turn my work 50 00:02:51,849 --> 00:02:55,773 and then slide those stitches that were the back stitches, 51 00:02:55,773 --> 00:02:58,356 they're now the front stitches. 52 00:02:59,290 --> 00:03:03,207 I'll slide those stitches onto my front needle, 53 00:03:06,393 --> 00:03:09,060 and pull the back needle tip out 54 00:03:09,381 --> 00:03:13,464 so that those stitches slide onto the back cable. 55 00:03:15,477 --> 00:03:18,394 Now I have a free needle tip to use 56 00:03:18,835 --> 00:03:20,752 to knit these stitches. 57 00:03:29,117 --> 00:03:33,107 Once I have knit across the stitches on this needle, 58 00:03:33,107 --> 00:03:35,524 I have knit one entire round. 59 00:03:40,282 --> 00:03:43,787 And I have to be careful that I haven't twisted my stitches, 60 00:03:43,787 --> 00:03:47,225 which you can see there, they're working fine. 61 00:03:47,225 --> 00:03:51,142 To begin the next round, again, I turn my work, 62 00:03:53,704 --> 00:03:55,787 and I can pull this cable 63 00:03:58,356 --> 00:04:00,439 to allow that free needle 64 00:04:01,935 --> 00:04:04,768 to hold the stitches in the front, 65 00:04:06,538 --> 00:04:08,732 and then I pull the back needle out 66 00:04:08,732 --> 00:04:12,149 to slide the back stitches onto the cable 67 00:04:12,510 --> 00:04:16,093 and prepare to begin working my next round. 68 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:26,372 And of course you can work these stitches in pattern. 69 00:04:26,372 --> 00:04:29,810 I'm just knitting every round, but you can be knitting 70 00:04:29,810 --> 00:04:32,494 or pearling or doing whatever your stitch pattern says. 71 00:04:32,494 --> 00:04:36,661 Here I finished with half the stitches on the round. 72 00:04:36,786 --> 00:04:38,286 I'll turn my work, 73 00:04:39,992 --> 00:04:41,325 pull this cable. 74 00:04:41,573 --> 00:04:43,682 Now, be careful, because you don't 75 00:04:43,682 --> 00:04:46,099 want to pull the wrong cable. 76 00:04:46,192 --> 00:04:50,313 If I pulled here, these stitches would fall off the needle. 77 00:04:50,313 --> 00:04:52,392 You have to be very careful 78 00:04:52,392 --> 00:04:54,478 which part of the cable you're pulling on. 79 00:04:54,478 --> 00:04:56,188 We've all at one time or another 80 00:04:56,188 --> 00:04:58,519 pulled the wrong side of the cable, 81 00:04:58,519 --> 00:05:00,354 and had the stitches fall off the needle, 82 00:05:00,354 --> 00:05:03,304 and it will only take you a few times for that to happen 83 00:05:03,304 --> 00:05:05,512 to know that you have to be really careful. 84 00:05:05,512 --> 00:05:09,504 But here I am, ready to pull this back needle out 85 00:05:09,504 --> 00:05:12,837 and work the second half of my stitches. 86 00:05:24,180 --> 00:05:26,985 And there I've finished my second round. 87 00:05:26,985 --> 00:05:29,818 If I wanna see what it looks like, 88 00:05:29,820 --> 00:05:33,403 I can just slide everything onto the cable. 89 00:05:34,735 --> 00:05:38,152 You can see, I have a small circumference 90 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:41,196 fabric done on a long cable needle. 91 00:05:41,986 --> 00:05:43,819 And that's magic loop.