1. Put the end of the yarn through the hole in the top of your French Knitter, pulling aabout a four-inches out of the bottom. Wrap the yarn clockwise around the peg in closest to you. This will be Peg No. 1.
2. Then working counter clockwise, wrap the yarn around Peg No. 2, Peg No. 3, and then Peg No. 4 Now you are ready to knit!
3. Hold the Knitter and the yarn in your left hand, and the pick in your right hand. To begin knitting, wrap the yarn around the outside of the first peg, above the first loop of the yarn that you made before.
4. Put your pick in the first or bottom loop, pick it up and slip it over the top of the peg and drop it right off the peg. Then, pull the tail of the yarn at the bottom of the French Knitter to tighten the stitch
5. Do the same thing on the second, third and fourth pegs. Soon your knitting will come through the bottom of the Knitter. Keep knitting until you have the length of knitting you need.
TO REMOVE OR CAST OFF When you have finished the length of knitting you need, take the last loop you made off the peg and put it on the peg to the left. Now pick up the bottom loop, slip it over the top loop and drop it right off the peg. Pull the tail of yarn, as usual, for even stitches. Do the same thing, putting the remaining loop from the peg on which you’re working to the peg on the left, and so on, until only one loop is left. Cut the end of the yarn about four inches above the finished knitting and put through the last loop on the Knitter. Then take the loop right off the peg and pull the yarn tight, turning the last loop into a knot.
TO ADD YARN To add more yarn or to join different colors, put the two ends of the yarn together and just make a tight knot about half an inch from the loose ends. When you get to the knot in knitting, hide the loose ends in the center of the knitting.
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