I am an English knitter. No, it doesn’t mean I have tea with cream and scones when I knit, it just means the way I knit, which uses my right hand to “throw” the yarn around the needles, is called the English method. The other popular method is called Continental, which I will cover at another time. Most beginners will find out which they prefer soon after starting their first knitting project. As a personal observation, right-handed people usually knit in English and left-handed people in Continental, but it should be whichever you feel most comfortable with.
Take your nicely cast-on work in your left hand and pick up the ball-end yarn with your right hand (Figure A).
Insert the needle into the first loop from left to right, front to back (Figure B).
Take the yarn with your right hand, and loop it counter-clockwise (from back to front) around the needle you just inserted into the loop (Figure C).
