Monday, October 13, 2014

How to Arm Knit: Actually Knitting With Your Arms

Knitting Off of Your Right Wrist:

     Drop the remaining length of tail and pick up your working yarn.     


     Pull the working yarn through the stitch you just cast on.



     If you don't mind your stitches being twisted, you can just slide the stitch on your left arm now.


 If you want it to look as if it was actually knitted on huge needles, you will have to learn how to properly place the stitches on your arms.

How to Untwist Your Stitches (this really isn't hard, I promise)

     To untwist your stitches, all you need to do is turn the stitch toward your left arm.



     Slide the untwisted stitch onto your left wrist and repeat until you have knitted all of the stitches previously on your right wrist. Your work will now look like this:



Knitting Off of Your Left Wrist:

     Place the working yarn in your left hand.


     Insert your right hand into the first stitch on your left wrist and grab the working yarn.


     Pull the working yarn through the stitch and off your left wrist. If you don't mind twisted stitches you can just slip the stitch onto your right wrist now.


   But if you do, simply turn the stitch toward your right arm and slide it onto your wrist.



     Repeat these steps until your project has reached your desired length.

     Congratulations! You now know how to knit with your arms! I will make another post on how to bind off soon.

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