[Nfb-krafters-korner] arm knitting?

[Annette Carr]

I have not tried to do arm knitting yet, but have done a little bit of
reading about it.  Here is what I understand. 

You have to think of your arms as the knitting needles.  Make a slip knot
and place your left hands through it, you have one stitch on your "left arm
needle".  Use a knitted cast-on.  Insert your "right arm needle" into the
stitch knit-wise , grab the working yarn with your right hand and pull it
through the original stitch that is on your "left arm needle".  Slip the
newly created stitch on your "left arm needle" with the first stitch.  Now
you have 2 stitches.  Continue adding stitches until you get as many as you
want.  Maybe this would be 10, but I really do not know.  

Now to knit a row, insert your right hand knit-wise into the last stitch
you made on your "left arm needle".  Again grab the working yarn with your
right hand and pull it through the original stitch.  Let this new stitch
slip onto your "right arm needle" so that your hand is free to remove the
original stitch from the "left arm needle".  Now you have One stitch created
on your "right arm needle".  Repeat these steps for the remaining stitches
on your "left arm needle".  When you are done, you should have 0 stiches on
your "left arm needle" and 10 stitches on your "right arm needle".  


Now to knit the second row, you will insert your left hand  into the first
stitch on your "right arm needle" purl-wise.  Grab the working yarn with
your left hand, pull it through the original stitch and let the new stitch
slip onto your "left arm needle.  Use your left hand to remove that original
stitch from your "right arm needle".  Repeat these stitches for the
remaining stitches.

To bind-off your work, knit 2 stitches, lift the first stitch up and over
the second stitch and let that first stitch fall off of your arm needle.
Knit one stitch so that once again you have two stitch and lift the original
stitch up and over the other so that it can be dropped off of your hand.
Continue until all of your stitches are bound off and you have one stitch
remaining.  Cut your yarn and pull it through to end.

Now, I have no idea what you will do with your stitches if you get
interrupted while you are working. 


-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 11:49 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] arm knitting?

I have given this some thought and I, too have gotten some emails from
places with this in the title.  
 
Now I might be able to think out crocheting a chain with my hands, but does
anyone know if you put the loops on your arm?  Then knit it  off?
 
Joyce
 
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