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- Arm knitting is very similar to traditional knitting

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in that you're moving the stitches from your right arm

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over to your left arm.

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What's different is, instead of turning

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your whole work around as you would in traditional knitting,

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you simply move the stitches from your left arm

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back to your right.

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Now that we're ready to knit, we're going to forget about

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the tail, we don't need this anymore,

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at least not until the end.

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So we're not gonna use that,

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we're gonna go just to the working yarn.

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And the way we wanna do our first stitch

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is we're gonna bring that working yarn over our thumb.

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We're going to grab onto the yarn with our fist

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and now we're gonna take this first stitch right here,

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and again you wanna make sure

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you grab the three strands together.

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And we're gonna pull this over our fist.

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Like that.

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Now you're gonna drop the stitch you just pulled over

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and you're gonna take your hand

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and you're gonna go in this little space

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that's right between your thumb and the yarn,

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you're gonna push your hand through there

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and you're gonna move this loop onto your left hand.

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So you've now done the first stitch.

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You wanna tighten this down a little bit

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before we start our next stitch.

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You're going to, again, grab that working yarn

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with your fist, and this is the tricky part,

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because now we're attached and your family

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can do anything they want to you at this point.

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It's still a lot of fun though, so let's keep going

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for our second stitch.

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You're gonna bring the working yarn over your thumb again

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and into your fist, you're going to reach over

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and grab that second stitch.

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So you'll see, it's loose enough that I'm still able

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to function and move my hand.

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But you don't want it really loose

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or you're gonna have enormous stitches.

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So you wanna keep that tight.

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Bring the working yarn over your thumb,

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close your fist, come in, reach the second stitch here,

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and bring that over your fist.

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And now you're gonna take your left hand

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and you're gonna go into this space

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between the working yarn, right underneath your thumb,

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and you're going into this loop

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and you bring that over your left hand.

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Now you've got two stitches.

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We're gonna do it again and I'm gonna show you slowly again,

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you bring that working yarn over your thumb,

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and to keep the stitches tight,

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it helps to be close to your left hand.

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So if you have your left hand and your right hand

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close together, that helps keep those stitches tight.

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You're gonna close over your fist,

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grab the third stitch,

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pull it over your fist

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and then you're gonna let that go.

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You can see this space here, that's where

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your hand's gonna go through the loop.

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And you bring that loop of the working yarn

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up over your left hand.

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And that's your third stitch.

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So we'll do it again.

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Close your fist over it, it's over your thumb,

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you reach the stitch,

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bring it over your fist,

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drop that stitch

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and we're gonna go into this space right in here

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and bring it over your hand.

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For the next stitch, I'm gonna show you

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more of an open hand so you can see

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a little bit more what's going on.

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I'm gonna pull this next stitch over.

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And you'll see, I'm gonna hold this,

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this is what was in my fist.

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But you can see, this is the prior row,

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the prior stitch, and this is our new stitch.

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And what makes the way I arm knit different than most people

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out there is I give this stitch a little half turn.

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And that's what you're doing when your hand goes underneath

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your thumb, it's giving this twist to it naturally,

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but if you have a loose hand, this is what you're gonna see.

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So again, this was on your arm.

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When you pull this over,

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this, you see it come up

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and it comes up this way, but you wanna give it

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that half twist before it goes onto this hand.

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So I'll show you that again.

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So instead of the fist I'm now holding it with my fingers

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and I'm gonna pull

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that stitch over, give it a half twist

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and put my hand through.

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I'm showing you the open hand so you can see

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what's actually happening to that loop

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as we give it that half twist.

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And you might find it's actually a little faster

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to do it this way than the closed-fist way.

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The important thing about that half twist

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is that's what enables the stitches in my arm knitting

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to be like a traditional knit stitch.

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A lot of times people will not give it

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that extra half twist and what you end up with

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is crossed stitches on all your rows

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and that's not what I like to see in a cowl.

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I like to see that really traditional knit fabric

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but in the larger scale.

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The final stitches are a straight V.

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I'm gonna finish this row with the closed-fist method.

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As I said, it's the same as what I just showed you,

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it's just sometimes it's easier for beginners.

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So again you'll see, there's the space,

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you put your hand into it and bring it over your left hand.

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You put that working yarn in your fist,

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bring it over.

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And the first row is harder to do than the remaining rows,

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the stitches get a little looser

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and easier to move back and forth.

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And you wanna make sure you keep your yarn

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smooth and not have loops in them,

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it's nice to keep it taut and together.

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And here's the last one.

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Through and put that on your left hand.

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Congratulations, you've just finished

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your first row of arm knitting.

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It's exciting.

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It starts to be so cool and big,

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right from the start, I love it.

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We're gonna start now on the second row,

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it's basically the same as the first

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except we're moving the stitches

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from our left arm back onto our right.

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The stitches are worked the same way.

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You start by bringing that working yarn,

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again, over your thumb and into your fist.

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You wanna pick up this first stitch,

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bring it over your fist

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and then remember this little space under here?

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That's where you wanna put your hand

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and you move the loop onto your right hand.

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You wanna tighten that down a little bit,

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that's how those stitches stay tight.

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Now you're gonna take this working yarn

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and again, put it over your thumb.

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You're gonna take the first second stitch,

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bring it over your fist,

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drop it,

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put your hand underneath your thumb into that space

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and put that on.

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If you leave these loose like this,

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you'll end up with kind of uneven stitches

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and a looser fabric.

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So after you bring these loops onto your right hand,

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you wanna take your working yarn,

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organize it a little bit,

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tighten it down a little bit.

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You want this as snug as it can be

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without being so tight that you can't move them

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or that you can't do the stitches.

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And remember, my arm size is different than your arm size.

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If my daughter arm knit a scarf,

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it would obviously be itty bitty,

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where if my husband did, it would be much bigger.

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So there is some variation in the size

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of the stitch that you end up with.

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Grab that working yarn, the stitch you just made,

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close to your arm to do the next stitch here.

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And then this would be the open-turn method

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we were talking about where you see that

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twist in the hand.

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It's the same thing as the closed fist,

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you're just able to see what's happening.

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So again, you keep those stitches nice and consistent.

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You grab the working yarn close to the stitch you just made,

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you reach over, grab the next stitch...

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I'm doing it with the closed hand here,

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and you're putting it through

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and over your other hand.

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And you tighten it down.

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See, I can move my wrist but they're fairly snug.

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We're gonna keep going, put that working yarn

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over that thumb and into your fist

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and bring the stitch over.

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Put your hand underneath your thumb

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and there you go, we're almost done,

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we're halfway through the next row.

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Here we go.

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I'm gonna show you an open twist, here's that twist.

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You can see what's happening,

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the yarn that comes from the stitch you just made

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is going to the back of your hand...

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And your working yarn is gonna be in the front,

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that's how you know you've done that half twist.

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Because you see that working yarn comes over

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and it's facing you, it's in the front,

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and that's how you want it to be.

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Either direction that you're going,

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whether you're going from the right to the left

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or the left to the right,

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you want that working yarn in front.

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We're gonna finish this off.

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And if you find it's getting loose, you know,

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if you go back and let's say I've done this more loose

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and you see how it's snug back here

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but boy it's starting to get looser and looser?

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You can always go back in and tighten it down

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by pulling from the back, now I've got a looser stitch.

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And you're gonna pull from the back again.

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See all this extra yarn that had been in there?

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We're getting that out of there.

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So that's another way to tighten your stitches as you go

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and just make sure, you still wanna be able to move

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your arm but these stitches now look very consistent.

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We're gonna finish the last couple of stitches here.

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You put that working yarn in your left hand,

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bring the stitch over your fist,

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put your hand through the loop.

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And this is the last one!

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Now bring this over.

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Here you go, this last loop goes onto your wrist.

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So that's it, you have two rows of arm knitting.

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And it's simple, from then on, you just continue

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to move the stitches from your right arm to your left

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and your left arm to your right.

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You just keep doing that until

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you get to about 58, 60 inches.

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So I'm gonna keep knitting here.

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And there you go, third row.

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We're gonna go back the other way.

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Sometimes people get confused because

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they're so used to going one direction,

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when they go to turn the other way,

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it's a little disconcerting to start putting

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the working yarn over your other hand.

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Remember, when you're making new stitches,

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the working yarn goes in the hand

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that has the older stitches on it.

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That's a way to help keep it straight.

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And what you'll find is,

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as you get more adept at doing the arm knitting,

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you'll find shortcuts or patterns for your hands

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that are easy, or easier for you,

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and you'll start picking up pace.

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As you start going faster and faster,

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you'll find that you need that yarn

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from those skeins faster and faster.

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I find at home it's helpful to put the skeins in a bag

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or a basket so that they're a little bit more contained

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when I'm tugging on the yarn.

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It makes the process a little bit smoother.

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All right, the other thing you might be wondering,

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this is my most-asked question,

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how do I possibly stop in the middle?

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Well it's very easy, it's a matter of just putting

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the stitches that you've made onto a holder of some sort.

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And in this case, I'm using this paper towel tube.

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I like to use these tubes because they're similar in size

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to your arm and they hold the stitches very nicely.

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What we're gonna do here is move the stitches from our arm

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onto the paper towel tube, which is now our holder.

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It's very simple, you just move each stitch

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in order onto this tube.

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Now if you don't have a tube, you can use

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a piece of scrap yarn and pull the stitches

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onto the scrap yarn in the same way.

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Just if you do it that way, you have to be more careful

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because the stitches have a tendency to pull out

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a little bit so when you put it back on your arm

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it can be a little trickier.

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Using this tube is the easiest way to see very clearly

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what needs to happen when it goes back on your arm.

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So here we go.

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You have all the stitches on your paper towel tube,

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you can set it down and go do whatever it was

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that you needed to go do.

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And when you come back, it's very easy to pick it up again.

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Let's just take a moment to look

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at something that I get asked about a lot

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while the stitches are flat like this.

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You'll see on the edges you have larger loops here

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and then a little tight loop here,

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and then a larger loop here,

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and a tight loop here.

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This happens because

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of the nature of arm knitting,

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that you can't turn it around and do your next row.

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So you end up with these slightly uneven,

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from row to row, stitches.

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And when you're a beginner, this is even more pronounced,

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so you might find on yours that it looks

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kind of more like that and you'll be like, "Oh no!"

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But it's okay, sometimes you can just go in

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and manually make it a little more even.

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So that's one thing you can do to make those even.

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And I wouldn't bother making them really even because

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they naturally are gonna do this, but if it's super loose,

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you can kind of even out those stitches.

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Because this is just a knit fabric,

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what will happen as you do the knitting

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and make your cowl is it curves under.

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So what people will see is this beautiful

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first row of stitches, they won't see this side

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which will be curved under.

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Let's say you come back from whatever it was you're doing

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and your arm knitting is all in a pile

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and you wanna be like, "Oh no,

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"how am I gonna get that back on?"

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Don't freak out, it's very easy to figure out.

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There are a couple clues that I'm gonna point to

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to show you how to get it back on your arm.

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The first thing you wanna do is bring your tube

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back in your hands, and you wanna make sure

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the right side of the fabric is facing you.

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This is the side that's the right side,

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the one that looks like a typical knit fabric,

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that's the right side.

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I'm gonna show you the wrong side so you can see.

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This is the wrong side, so if you pick it up

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and you see these bumps facing you, these are purl stitches,

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this is what a purl stitch looks like.

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This is not the right way to put it back on your arm,

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you wanna have it so that

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these knit stitches are facing you.

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And now, the next thing people freak out about

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is they say, "But which arm do I put it back on?

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"I can't remember which arm it was on!"

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And it's okay, the telling clue for that

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is you have this working yarn over here,

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and what you know is that that working yarn

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needs to end up by your hand to do the next row.

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So if the working yarn is over here on the right,

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you wanna start to put these stitches back onto your left

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so that by the time you move all the stitches

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back from the holder onto your arm,

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that working yarn is ready to go.

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So we're gonna start to do that,

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we're gonna scrunch it all towards this side

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and move it back onto your left arm.

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After a while you'll get so you see the stitches so well

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that sometimes I don't even put them on a holder

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because you can start to see where they are

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and where they go and it's easy to kind of get them back on.

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So here we go, I'm gonna do three at once here.

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After you've put them back on your arm,

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you might wanna come in here and tighten them a little

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and make them consistent, because you want that row

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to have the same look all the way across.

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So you would just pull those stitches a little bit,

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making sure you grab three strands at the same time

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and you tighten them a little bit down

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'til you get to the end.

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So you see those are nice and straight

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and snug against my arm.

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And now you have your working yarn and you're ready to go.

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I wanna show you one more thing,

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and it's about dropped stitches, that thing

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that always freaks people out when you're a new knitter.

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And I want you to know that it's not something

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that should make you worry too much,

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because I'm gonna show you really clearly.

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See, what if this happens and oh my god,

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your stitches are coming undone?

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And you have something like this.

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It's okay, don't panic.

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What you have here is a V, a V, a V,

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and so when you drop these stitches like this,

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you wanna remake the Vs.

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So you wanna reach in here and pull that loop through,

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this is your working yarn from a couple rows ago.

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See how I made a new V there?

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We're gonna do the same thing.

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We're gonna take this yarn that has come out of the stitch

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and we're gonna bring it through this loop here,

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just like that.

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And see how when I do that it makes a new V?

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V.

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And one more.

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This goes right through here.

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And there you've picked up a stitch.

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Easy peasy, and that just goes right back on your hand.

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And you have the working yarn over here

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and you can keep knitting until you get to that 58 inches.