Gather knitting needles and yarn
Make a slip knot
Cast on stitches
Hold the needle with the cast-on stitches in your left hand
Insert the right needle into the first stitch
Wrap the yarn around the right needle
Pull the loop through the stitch
Slide the old stitch off the left needle
Repeat to make knit stitches
For purl stitches, bring the yarn to the front
Insert the right needle into the stitch from right to left
Wrap the yarn around the right needle
Pull the loop through the stitch
Slide the old stitch off the left needle
Continue following a pattern
Bind off when finished
Cut the yarn and pull it through the last loop
Weave in the loose ends