“The first work in knitting,” said Fairly Flew, “is the casting of stitches or loops on one knitting needle. There are several different ways of doing this.”
“Yes,” said the little girl, “I have seen Aunt Maria cast on stitches with two knitting needles.”
“You will learn that method later on,” Fairly Flew promised; “but next—”
She did not finish the sentence because Crow Shay was attracting everybody’s attention by his funny antics. He couldn’t seem to keep still, but kept hopping up and down on the table so hard that it made a constant tap-tap-tap!
“Watch me, Knit,” he was whispering, “you’ll soon be surprised to see me help you.” Then he began to giggle.
“The little tease!” exclaimed Fairly Flew. Then turning to Mary Frances she continued: “I see that you have your needle well filled with cast-on stitches. They look nice and even, and you could knit them off quite easily when shown how to use the other needle; but before you learn to take stitches off, I wish to tell you about another easy way to cast on stitches.”
