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Lace Finger Knitting

This document provides instructions for finger knitting and knitting using only your hands. It contains 7 steps to cast yarn onto your fingers to begin finger knitting, including weaving the yarn in and out of your fingers. It also explains how to knit the yarn by lifting it over your fingers from little to index finger in rows. The final steps describe how to cast off the knitting by removing loops from the fingers using the yarn tail.

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Lace Finger Knitting

This document provides instructions for finger knitting and knitting using only your hands. It contains 7 steps to cast yarn onto your fingers to begin finger knitting, including weaving the yarn in and out of your fingers. It also explains how to knit the yarn by lifting it over your fingers from little to index finger in rows. The final steps describe how to cast off the knitting by removing loops from the fingers using the yarn tail.

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Powerhouse Museum
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make & do activity kit

Finger knitting

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Weave yarn back across fingers - around little finger, behind ring finger, in front of middle finger and behind index finger. Repeat steps 2 &3 until you have 2 rows on each finger.

Knitting
Start at the little finger, take the bottom piece of yarn and lift up and over the finger. Repeat with other fingers, working from little finger to index finger.

This activity kit contains:


1. Make and do activity steps 1 -7 Visit http://play.powerhousemuseum.com to download any missing elements.

At end of first row, put tail and yarn between index and middle finger. Start next row by winding yarn anti-clockwise around the index finger. Continue knitting by repeating steps 2, 3 and 4 occasionally tighten tail at the back.

View of back of hand.

Things you need:


A ball of wool

Casting on

Place you hand with your palm up. Hold the yarn against your palm with your thumb as shown.

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Casting off

Start with 1 row of yarn on each finger. Take loop of yarn off little finger and put on ring finger, knit as usual. Repeat on ring then middle finger ending on the index finger.

Weave yarn in and out of fingers. Start in front of your index finger and go behind middle finger, in front of ring finger and then behind the little finger.

Knit on index finger so one loop remains. Cut yarn leaving 10cm. Remove loop from finger, thread tail through loop and pull.

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