My book designer, Karina, discovered a new way of knitting at her last craft party. If you haven’t heard of this latest craze, it’s easy, it’s fun, and it’s fast … necessarily so, since you’re all tied up … literally … in yarn, using your arms instead of needles. And as you can imagine, there are a number of reasons why you can’t be tied up for too long.
Photo, flaxandtwine.com
Because of the size of the stitches your “needles” produce, you can make an infinity scarf in about a half hour, even if you’re a beginner.
Find a step-by-step written tutorial with photos for the scarf pictured above at a wonderful blog called Flax & Twine: A Happy Handmade Life.
Or knit a blanket in just 45 minutes with a great video tutorial from SimplyMaggie.com.
Note: For 20% off Lion Brand Quickie Arm Knitting Yarn, enter MARYJANES20 in the coupon code box during checkout for yarns at: http://www.yarncanada.ca/categories/lion-brand/shop-by-product-line/quickie-yarn.html
Wow, this is kinda cool! It actually looks more complicated to me than using needles. The one drawback I see is if you needed to stop, how would you get untangled without dropping stitches and getting really messed up? That is a huge problem I always get into with needles. Or maybe I just make too many mistakes. I could see me getting all knitted into the the project!!
Hahaha! Well, I can’t even put the sink sprayer back into is post without spraying myself, I can’t imagine what kind of tangle I will get into trying this ~ but I’m game! What a fun activity that would be for an afternoon gathering of friends.
Your sink sprayer image made me laugh out loud:)
🙂 And it made this not so spry lady jump back pretty far!
I feel like that with garden hoses. Total clutz, http://www.raisingjane.org/journal/252#more-252
I just clicked on your link about the water hose, Mary Jane! That made me laugh!!! I’m glad I’m not the only one! Merry Christmas!