Finger-Knitting Scarves

This page is about learning to finger-knit with loop yarn. There will be parts where you should pause the video and read the text, so be reading the text as the video plays. Other than that, the text with the video works as subtitles.

• Loop Yarn (any kind works, so long is it is loop yarn)
• Scissors
• Lots of free time
• A decent amount of patience

Making the scarves is fairly easy. You should start off with 10 loops, so you have one through ten. What you are going to do is take eleven and put it through ten. (pause video) You always want to (example) eleven into ten, not ten into eleven. If you do, you will make a 'diabetic banana'. That means it will start rolling into itself. If that does happen, pull out the last couple lines and make sure you are putting (again, example) eleven into ten. (unpause video) You then put 12 into 9, 13 into 8, 14 into 7, 15 into 6, and so on until the entire row has been completed. (over time I started losing count, I apologize) (pause video after I start counting) The overall process is quite simple, you are just putting a loop into a loop. (unpause video) Once you get to 20 into 1, you are going to take 21 and put it into 20. Then 22 into 19, 23 into 18, and so on. After you have completed that row, you will have three rows knitted scarf. (video ends) It might look a bit weird at first but that is perfectly normal. Continue to next video :

After continuing to knit for a while, you should have a decently long scarf. When you are ready to tie it off, finish off the row you are working on. (pause video) When you are going to tie it off, you should have ten or so loops remaining on your skein. Two things : one, having one or two more or less loops at the end is totally fine. I only recommend having 10 because you want to make sure that you have enough yarn to tie off the end. Two; you don't have to do the entire skein of yarn if you don't want to. (unpause video) The next thing you want to do is take the loop after the row you just finished, grab your scissors, and cut the dead center of the bottom of the loop. (pause video) Once you cut it, it should turn into fuzzy yarn that looks like non-loop yarn. Basically "regular" yarn, but fuzzier. (unpause video) You then want to do that for all of the other remaining loop so that you have enough extra fuzzy yarn for the tying-off process.

Once you have finished cutting all of the loops (if you are not using all of the loops, cut the cut loops and scarf off of the skein), place it to the side in a line. (pause video) I suggest putting it in a line, just so that it doesn't tangle and it is easy to grab and use. (unpause video) You are then going to put the de-looped yarn into the loops on the last row of loops knitted. The yarn should be looped through the loops, (pause video) like threading little metal circlets on a string. (unpause video) I would suggest putting it through multiple loops at a time, but if you want to do one at a time, that is fine as well. (pause video) Another way is to put the yarn through the loops without pulling them through all the way (as the video demonstrates) and then after doing that for a few loops, put your finger (or some other sort of slim, straight object) through the loops, and then pull the yarn all the way through it. (unpause video) After you thread the yarn through all of the loops, you are going to to (at long last) tie it off. Pull the yarn through the last loop after you already threaded it to create a sort of circle, then take the end, pull it through that loop through the circle, and pull the yarn line until it won't go anymore. This creates a knot at the end. I recommend doing it twice just to be safe. (pause video) Watch the video very carefully here because the video demonstration does a better job explaining than the text description. (unpause video) After that, cut any long tails of yarn off the end and boom! You have a scarf.