How to French Knit

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Set up your knitting dolly.

   Make your own by pressing four pushpins around the hole of a spool of thread. ,,, No need for pins to correlate to actual directions as long as you don't switch north and east halfway through the knitting process. ,, The taut yarn should run on the inside of the pins, closer to the central hole. ,,,
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   Step 2: Pull out a length of wool (yarn) about 8 in (20cm) long and insert it through the knitting dolly top to bottom so you have a bit of a tail hanging out 2 in (5cm) to 4 in (10cm).

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   Pull the stitch tight by gently tugging at the tail coming out of the bottom of the knitter's hole. , Again, you should have 2 loops on each pin. ,, It should form a stretchy, four-sided tube that tapers to a point. ,,,,,,,
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   Step 3: Grasp the knitting dolly with your left hand and the yarn coming out of the top of the hole with your right.

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   Step 4: Label each of the four pins (mentally

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   Step 5: of course) as north

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   Step 6: and west.

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   Step 7: Wrap the ball side of the yarn clockwise around the north pin.

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   Step 8: Wrap the yarn around the west pin so that it is taut between them.

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   Step 9: Continue wrapping

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    Step 10: counterclockwise

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    Step 11: in this manner with the south and east pins.

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    Step 12: Repeat the whole wrapping thing so that you have two loops on each pin.

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    Step 13: Starting with the north pin

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    Step 14: pick up the bottom (first) loop with your needle and pull it over the pin

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    Step 15: then drop it

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    Step 16: leaving only the top and second loop on the pin.

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    Step 17: Repeat this process with each pin

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    Step 18: working counterclockwise (i.e.

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    Step 19: Wrap the yarn as you did before

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    Step 20: but only once.

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    Step 21: Do the whole bottom-loop-over-pin procedure again.

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    Step 22: Continue wrapping and dropping loops until you can see the knitted part of it protruding from the bottom.

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    Step 23: Knit until your tube is a satisfactory length.

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    Step 24: Cast Off.

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    Step 25: Pick up the single remaining loop on the north pin and lift it over the west pin.

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    Step 26: Pick up the bottom loop of the west pin

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    Step 27: pull it over

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    Step 28: and drop it just like you have been doing.

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    Step 29: Repeat for the west and south pins.

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    Step 30: When only one loop is left on the east pin

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    Step 31: cut the yarn with an ample tail

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    Step 32: thread it through the loop

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    Step 33: and unhook it from the pin.

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    Step 34: Finished!

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