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3.
Make
your bundle look like a daisy by spreading the loops apart and by pinching
the top ends of them slightly. These are your starting anchor loops. You’ll
be knitting off of these.
4. Cut a 10-12” piece of your thinner, knitting wire and wrap one end around the bundle’s twist to hold it into place.5. Place your bundle, upside down, over your dowel rod. Try to distribute your bundle’s loops evenly around the dowel to help your stitches to lie evenly. |
| 6. Hold the startup bundle onto the dowel with your off hand. Take the knitting wire and slide it through the notch on the dowel counter clockwise. Working clockwise, bring the wire over the bottom of a loop and behind the sides of two adjacent loops, then toward you over the bottom of the second loop. You’ll cross over your knitting wire as you move to the juncture of next two sides to knit together. Tug gently on your wire to draw the to sides loosely together. You may hand crimp the wire at this newly completed juncture if you wish. |
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7.
Turn your bundle around the dowel in your direction, do line it up with the notch, and make another stitch just like the first. Be sure to tug slightly on the wire between them. Continue making other stitches until you've gotten all the way around your dowel and all the starting loops are stitched together. Try to keep the spaces between the stitches
even.
8. When you've gone all the way around, loosen the stitches carefully with a needle (slide the needle under the stitch and wiggle it gently.) You can also do this to even out the spacing between your stitches. By now there should be enough stitched loops finished, that you can start working off of the knitted stitches, not the starting anchor bundle. Be sure to turn the dowel toward you to begin the first stitch off of these. |
| 9. You'll knit exactly the same way as you did on your first pass around the dowel. Take the knitting wire and slide it through the notch on the dowel from the left side. Working right to left, bring the wire over the bottom of a loop and behind the sides of two adjacent loops, then toward you over the bottom of the second loop. You'll cross over your knitting wire as you move to the juncture of next two sides to knit together. Tug gently on your wire to draw the to sides loosely together. Some people knit loosely and some more tightly. It does not matter which you do, as long as the stitches and spaces between them look about the same. Don't worry too much if they don't. When you draw the chain after you're finished knitting, the unevenness is fairly well hidden. |
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Single Knit
If you continue knitting in the way you have started, you'll create a single knit chain. This type of chain is very open. If you want something that appears more dense, you'll want to try a double or treble knit style.