Wind the yarn back the opposite direction. Taking the yarn that you looped over your pinky, you will wind it around the back of your pinky, creating a complete loop, and then over your ring finger. Then, wind the yarn behind your middle finger and over your pointer finger.
When you wind the second time around you want to wind above the previous loops you created. After you have winded around your fingers twice, you should see two loops across each finger. If you find that your loops are loose, you can pull the end of the yarn between your thumb and pointer finger, which will tighten the loops around your fingers.
If you need to, you can tighten the loops again by pulling on the end of the yarn. To prepare for the next knitting, push the loops to the bottom of your fingers.
Repeat this process going the opposite direction. Just as you did in the previous steps, go back the opposite direction, starting by looping the yarn around your pinky finger, over your ring finger, under your middle finger, and then over and around your pointer finger. Now you should have two loops around your fingers again. [2] X Research source Pull the bottom loop over your fingers. Repeating the previous step, you will again pull the bottom loop on your finger over the top loop, and then all the way over your finger, creating one loop each on each finger.
Make sure you continue to push the loops down on your fingers so they don’t pop off the top of your fingers.
At this point you’ll want to pull your yarn tightly to make sure the loops are pulled into the knitting. Take the remaining loop from the middle finger and move it over the next finger. Just as you did with your pointer finger, you will take the remaining loop on your middle finger and pull it up and over your finger and onto your ring finger. Then, take the bottom loop of your ring finger, and move it up and over the top loop and the top of your finger.
To finish your chain, pull both ends of your yarn to tighten. At this point you should be left with a piece of yarn sticking out of both ends of the chain. To hide yarn, you can weave the ends of the yarn back through the knitting and cut the ends off so that they won’t be noticeable.
The amount of yarn depends on the size of blanket you want. You may have to use several balls of yarn and tie them together at the ends if one ball is not enough (which it most likely won’t be).
Essentially your blanket will be many rows (the number depends on the length of the blanket your desire) of the finger knits lined up next to one another.
If you can’t find a backside, don’t sweat it. It affects the look of the blanket somewhat but it won’t affect the actual knitting process.
As you are making the loop you might have to hold onto the cross section of the loop with your hand so that the loop doesn’t come undone.
If you turn your hand around on the knuckle side when you’ve finished what you should see is one loop just around your pointer finger, and then a line of yarn coming from your chain that crosses over your middle finger. Then, on your middle finger you should see that line of yarn, and underneath there should be a line of yarn that crosses over your middle finger and your ring finger. On your ring finger you should see that line of yarn, and then underneath that a line of yarn that crosses over your ring finger and pinky finger. Essentially the yarn loops are stacked, meaning the yarn starts higher on your pointer finger and by the time it gets to your pinky finger it is two levels lower than the yarn loop on your pointer and middle finger.
As you look at your chain of yarn, you should see many loops going across it. Essentially you want to use the loop on the outermost part of the chain, but the loop will have two strands of yarn in it. Do not place your finger through the outermost strands of yarn, but place it through the loop that those two strands of yarn are a part of. When you pull it over your finger, you should have one larger loop that is made up of two smaller loops (or two strands of yarn).
Continue to do this with all of your fingers, as you did in the previous steps, creating one loop on each finger. Finish the second row by laying the working yarn from your pinky finger over the inside of your fingers, above the preexisting loops, and pulling the loops over the working yarn, creating one loop on each of your fingers.
Make sure you don’t add the loop right next to the one you are working with. Each time you add a loop you’ll want to skip the loop next to yours and use the one right after it.
At this point, you will probably need to flip your blanket over, so that the side you are working on is closest to you. As you complete each chain, bind it off and then flip your blanket over.
