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How to Knit a Blanket. Knit a blanket and give someone something precious. You will
need Acrylic or wool yarn Size 10 or 11 knitting needles Time and patience. Step 1. Determine
the size of the blanket you want and ask a fabric store salesperson for the proper number
and length of wool or acrylic yarn. Get size 10 or 11 knitting needles to accommodate the
width of the blanket. Yarn companies frequently provide free patterns printed on the paper
bands bundling the yarn. Step 2. Make a slip knot in the yarn with a needle in your right
hand and slide the knot onto the needle. Step 3. Wrap the length of yarn coming from the
ball across the base of your thumb and around to the palm side. Move the right hand needle
under and through this loop and snug it onto the needle. Step 4. Continue looping on these
stitches, compressing their growing length to make room for all you will need, and counting
them until you reach your decided width. Step 5. Switch the needle to your left hand and
send the other needle, using your right hand, through the top loop on the left. Step 6.
Guide the yarn attached to the ball under and over the right needle and slide it through
the stitch on the left, drawing this new one off and onto the right. Repeat until all stitches
have been moved onto the right needle. Picking up an extra stitch at the end of a row is
a common error. To avoid this, check the last stitch of the row as it goes on the right
needle. Also be sure the first stitch at the beginning of a row is snug so loops from the
stitches below do not wrap around the needle, creating what looks like two stitches. Step
7. Continue switching needles back and forth as you build rows of stitches until you have
the full dimension completed. Then knit the first two stitches and pull the first over
the second and off of the needle. Step 8. Knit the next stitch and use the left needle
to take the first stitch over the second from the right needle, binding the edge. At the
end, pull a last thread of yarn through the last stitch and knot it. Now snuggle up with
your brand new blanket! Did you know Did you know? The first knitting trade union was formed
in Paris in 1527.