Knitting tutorial: basic circular needle technique for beginners

Learn how to create a knitted necklace with circular knitting needles with Carmen García de Mora

With just two needles and a thread you can make unique and timeless pieces that project your style and personality. The world of stitches, twists and tops is a universe of creative possibilities for those who love to use their hands to create.

Carmen Garcia de Mora (@carmengarciademora), textile designer and knitting teacher, has dedicated her life to it, and today she shares with you basic techniques to knit with circular needles an incredible knitted necklace. Discover them in the video below!

Materials

-Thread
-Number 7 needles
-80 centimeters of wire.

Consider that you will have to take out three and a half times the centimeters of thread that you want to assemble.

Assemble the stitches to start

To start assembling a stitch, form a "V" between your fingers with the yarn and the needle. Once you have the first stitches mounted, repeat until you have 50 stitches. Make sure they always face the same side.

2. From complex to simple

The first round of stitches will always have more tension, so it will be the most complicated. However, once you finish that round the other stitches will be much easier to accomplish.

3. Completing the circle

A necklace like the one Carmen García de Mora is working on in the tutorial requires, on average, 8 rounds of knitting. Once you complete them, you will need to close stitches. To do this, you will need to cut the yarn and pull the needle up.

If you liked this tutorial and want to learn more about how to knit with the continental method and create a seamless top-down garment from scratch, sign up for Carmen's course: "Introduction to knitting with circular needles".

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