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Spool Knitting for Children
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Spool Knitting for Children
A
common starting point for many children interested in knitting and
crafts is the very traditional French knitting. French knitting, so
often useful on those rainy afternoons, requires a spool (usually
wooden), which has nails or pins ranging from 4 to 8 in number
protruding from one end for wrapping the yarn. French Knitting spools
can easily be found in your local craft shop, or alternatively made at
home. To make your knitting spool, you need an empty wooden thread
spool or a cylindrical piece of wood with half a centimeter diameter
holes through the centre. Then, hammer 4 nails or pins at regular
intervals around the centre hole, to finish.
Spools
are available in some form from most respectable online retailers for
children's arts and crafts and toys, if you're less adventurous. There
are also a range of arts and craft sets which contain all the materials
necessary to start your child spool knitting, so it might be a good
idea to shop around until you know what you're looking for. To get your
child spool knitting in no time, just follow the four simple
instructions below:
1.
Thread the yarn from top to bottom through the spool knitter.
2.
Wind the yarn in an anti-clockwise direction round the nails to cast
on. Make sure you don't pull the yarn too tightly, as this will make it
harder to knit your first round.
3. Wind the yarn
around the outside of the nails in an anti-clockwise direction to knit.
4.
Use a needle or pointed object to lift the loop now on each nail over
the yarn round the outside. Continue in an anti-clockwise direction
until the cord is long enough. Then cut the yarn and thread it through
the each loop to cast off.
A relatively simplistic
form of knitting, your child will surely take hours of pleasure in this
style. With the ability to produce stunning results whilst remaining
simple to master, you could get your child spool knitting with relative
ease, helping to keep them amused and out of your hair!
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