Knitting a wool blanket: Guido Maria Kretschmer’s instructions

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Knit a wool blanket with your arms

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Some people ask themselves: What else should we knit with? You’re right … but here you’re literally knitting with your arms – they are the knitting needles.

For 115 cm X 160 cm you need:

  • scissors
  • thick needle for sewing
  • Use threads that are as thick as possible.

We decided on “Lei” from Lana Grossa (100% virgin wool, length 40 m / 50 g) and used the thread twice. But if you have leftover wool, you might as well use it up. It’s good if you have a quarter of a ball left. Depending on the thickness, you can then use the yarns twice to four times. And when a thread runs out, just continue working with another ball of yarn

The special:

You crochet this blanket with your arms! Sounds a bit wild at first, but once you get the hang of it, it’s super fast.

Arm knitting step by step:

  1. Form a loop about 1.5 m from the end of the wool thread and place it around your right arm.
  2. Pinch the long end of the ball between the index and middle fingers of your left hand. First wrap the loose wool end around your thumb and then around your little finger.
  3. Move the thumb of the right hand through the thumb loop from below.
  4. Now grab the thread at the end of the ball, pull it back through the thumb loop and pull the resulting stitch over your right hand to create a new loop.
  5. Cast on a total of 30 stitches on the right arm for the blanket.
  6. Then take the last stitch with your right hand and stretch it.
  7. Guide your left hand through this stitch, grab the thread of the ball end and guide it back through the stitch.
  8. Place the newly created stitch around the left hand. Work all other stitches according to this principle on the left arm to get the first row. When all stitches are on the left arm, the last stitch is opened by the left hand. Now work the stitches back with your right hand.
  9. Depending on the desired length, continue working from arm to arm, then cast off.

This article originally appeared in Guido No. 11/2021.

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