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Home Made French Knitter

If you can't find a commercial French Knitter at a store, you most likely have the materials at home to make one of your own. Materials: - one

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french knitting

Use normal wool over soft touch. It holds and looks bette

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making a bag

when visiting a shaker village I noticed they made small purses/bags with French knitting. They used a rectangular template with nails around the rectangular

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Pulling the Yarn over the spike

You can use you fingers instead of the needle, it's infact a lot easier

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Easier To Pull Over

when you are going to pull the bottom stitch over the top I like to with my stick pull the bottom stitch out towards myself to make it easier to get it

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How to cast off?

I made a scarf with fun fur and regular yarn over the winter but forgot how to cast off at the end. Can somebody help me complete this

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Instructions say yfwd.K2.Pass yfwdover K2.WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

I'm knitting a cowl, and the instructions are supposed to be easy; however, I am having some difficulty with just the 2nd row. I've only been knitting

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Christmas Stocking Knitting

My pattern is K2, P2 for so many rows, then decrease 1 stitch each end of row. when I do this it is changing the pattern ...what am I doing wrong?

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