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Month: April 2005

  • FINGER CROCHET

    Finger knitting came to mind and digits several months back prompted by a young lady who was doing this at the Knitting Cafe and kindly showed me her technique.  I knew about using thumb or forefinger but she showed me the three finger method and I went on to use four and realize you get a flat or round effect depending on whether you take wool back and forth across fingers or under and around.  It is wonderfully satisfying and results in a lovely lacey strip of knitting.  You would think the notion of finger crochet would have come ‘hard on the heels’ of  finger knitting.  But it didn’t.  It was a phrase in a book – "the finger as hook"  – that got me experimenting.  Since my finger is a large hook I found that rope works best.  It’s fascinating.  And again satisfying using the simplest of ‘tools’ – something attached to me!  So far I’ve made chains and circles.  I’m imagining a basket of some sort.  Perhaps a rug to lay on another flat rug of contrasting colour so the texture and stitch of the crocheted rug will be evident.  I bet one could finger crochet a hanging chair or hammock.  Now I am going to go and Google and expect to find ten zillion (in eleven.six seconds) references to others who are madly  and gladly finger crocheting!