Hello, it's Lee. I'm gonna be making a table runner for my dining table. I bought this bulky knitting yarn from Michael's year or two ago. It was on sale and wanted to do something with it. Didn't know what I was gonna do with it. I have two skeins and I recently got some size 35 knitting needles. That's US or 19 millimeter knitting needles from Darn Good Yarn. They're wooden. They're big and hefty. I really like them. I'm gonna show you today starting in this video how to cast on. This is the method that I use to cast on. There are many different methods to use. I use different ones at different times. This is the one I'm gonna use for this one. First of all, you make a loop and slip it on. Do you see what I just did? I'm gonna shoot it again. You make a loop like this. You pull the loop through the back and through. Then you put the knitting needle through that loop and you pull it tight. That's your first stitch. This end is gonna be... I'm gonna take a needle at the end when I'm done with my project and I'm gonna intertwine it through the project and it'll be hidden. Okay. So let me zoom in a little bit. Let me get it a little tighter. So that you can see exactly what I'm doing. Okay. You can go in behind and behind. You take your long string, go around the back knitting needle. You pull that loop through to the front. So then you have two loops. Then you go back onto the left hand side and slip it on. And you can let it go. There you go. You've got two stitches on there now. Again, in through the front to the back, slip around, pull through to the front. Pull it loose. Slip that stitch back on, right onto the left needle and you've got three. You don't even have to take the right needle off of your out of the loop. You can keep it on and keep working now. So watch. We'll repeat around through. Pull, slip back on, put the right one behind the left one. Take the long string, slip it around the right needle tip, pull it through the left loop, make a right loop. Slip it on. The left side, tuck that right tip behind the left tip. And we'll do it again. Around, slip through. And then we'll go like this. And that's all there is to casting on stitches. Let me get my sims thread. Casting on stitches in this method. So right now I have two, four, six stitches on already. I want to go for 20 stitches. So I'm going to keep doing that around through, back on, behind. Around, through, back on, behind. And now pull it down. Around, through. Oh, cars are passing. Back on, behind. See how it's gone? Around, through, back on, and then behind. Let me pull some more yarn. It goes by fast once you've got the hang of it. It's not hard at all. It's rep knitting is all repetition of the same movement over and over and over again. And once you know how to do this, you can just fly. So I have two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 13. I'm a little awkward. Because I'm trying to stay in the picture here. 50, I'll pan. And I'm doing it. And I'm doing it. And that's all you do. You keep going until you reach 20. I'm getting there. Let me see how they got. So far. Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 60, formal. 17, 18, and 20. Now I'm ready to get my work done.