Make a slip knot on your needle and gently pull on both ends of the yarn until the stitch is firmly on the needle but can still slide easily.
![Make a slip knot on your needle and gently pull on both ends of the yarn until the stitch is firmly on the needle but can still slide easily.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/107798.image0.jpg)
Leave a short tail.
Knit into the first stitch, bring the new loop to the right, and slip it onto the LH needle.
![Knit into the first stitch, bring the new loop to the right, and slip it onto the LH needle.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/107800.image2.jpg)
When you knit into the first stitch, you don’t slip the old loop off the LH needle, as you do when using other kinds of cast-on methods.
Insert the RH needle between the 2 stitches on the LH needle.
![Insert the RH needle <i>between</i> the 2 stitches on the LH needle.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/107802.image4.jpg)
Be sure not to insert the needle into a stitch.
Wrap the yarn around the RH needle, and then bring a new loop through to the front.
![Wrap the yarn around the RH needle, and then bring a new loop through to the front.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/107804.image6.jpg)
You wrap the yarn like you’re going to knit.
Bring this loop around to the right and place it on the LH needle.
![Bring this loop around to the right and place it on the LH needle.](https://www.dummies.com/wp-content/uploads/107806.image8.jpg)
Continue inserting the RH needle between the two end stitches, then wrapping the yarn and bringing a new loop through until you have the number of cast-on stitches you need.