Illustrated tutorial on how to make a small fresh coaster made by hand using cotton and linen rope. Let’s take a look at it. If you are interested, you can follow along and learn.
Materials required: cotton and linen rope, packaging tape< /p>
Leaving 20cm of the tail, wrap the string around your front finger, and around your middle finger and underneath.
Continue wrapping the string under your front finger, then under your middle finger. There should be two lines on each finger (including the tail).
Lift the bottom stock on the middle finger between the upper stock and the middle finger.
Put the tail between your finger and middle finger (basically on the top of this finger and your index finger).
Next, circle your front finger again.
Then, wrap the string under your middle finger.
Lift the lower stock on the middle finger, over the upper stock, and away from the middle finger.
Lift the lower strand on your front finger over the upper strand and away from your front finger.
Continue the above four steps and finger knit for about 55 rows. Finish the piece by cutting the end (leaving a foot and half to the end) and placing it under the loop on your front finger, then the loop under your middle finger. Pull the loop from your fingers and pull the end tight.
Assemble the tripod so that the tail ends at the beginning of the finger knitting strands past one of the fifth row of finger knitting strands. Pull on the hands and the knitting thread begins to wrap around itself.
Coil the piece further (keeping the strands untwisted) and bring the tail through the finger braid row directly opposite where the tail came out of the first coil,.
Tighten so that the tripod continues to roll into a circle. The strands should be coiled tightly, although not so tightly that the coils start to bunch up.
Keeping the finger knitting thread close to itself around the loop, bring the tail of the thread through the finger knitting, directly where the tail leaves the last loop.
Wrap the coil again, passing the tail through the last coil and the end of the pointer braid. You want the ends of the finger braided thread to just make it tail so that you can easily end it together. This avoids a floppy disk at the end. If your finger braid is too long, delete a few rows. If your finger braid is too short, try winding it some tighter or adding a row or two. Pictured is the underside of hand knitting. You can see where the tail crosses each successive coil. Feed the rope through the tripod from the end of the finger braid and tie a knot with the tail threaded through the coil.
To finish the ends so they won't fray, wrap clean packing tape about one-third of the way around the string.
Wrap the rope through tape. Braid the ends into the tripod.
