[NFB-Krafters-Korner] Making a slip knot in knitting

[blindhands at aol.com]

This is from Davey Hulsher’s book, “The Touch of Yarn””

 

To make your slipknot: 

a.	Bring the working yarn up across your palm and between your left
thumb and forefinger, your pinch.
b.	Wrap it clockwise around your forefinger at about the first joint up
by your nail.  Clockwise means that it starts in your pinch, goes behind
your forefinger, comes around by your long finger, then back to the front.
c.	Stop wrapping when the working yarn goes behind your finger the
second time.  
d.	Drape the working yarn down the back of your forefinger until it is
below the first complete wrap.  
e.	Gently lift the wrap up off your finger with your right thumb and
forefinger.  Keep that loop open.  Use your long finger to snag the working
yarn and tuck the working yarn UP through the loop to form a second loop.  
f.	Grab that second loop with your right hand and tug on the yarn tail
with your left.  That will snug the first loop around the second.  

 

Voilà!  You have your first loop that is going to go on your left needle.  

 

Take your time and a suggestion from Joyce, first time use large knitting
needles and a thick type of yarn.  Size 10needles & No 5 or # 6 yarn
weight..

Joyce Kane

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