How to Finish a Loom Scarf Without a Needle Hook
Even if you've never knitted with two needles, you can create long knitted tubes on a knitting loom. Available as plastic toys in craft stores, knitting looms come with a needle hook called a loom tool -- a piece of thin, bent wire attached to a handle. When you bind off a scarf or any other tube made on a loom, you use the loom tool to pick up the stitches and cross them over each other. If you don't have a needle hook, you still can finish a loom scarf with a crochet hook.
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Instructions
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Pull the first stitch off the loom peg by hooking the crochet hook underneath it and lifting it upward.
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Pick up the next stitch in the round -- or, in the case of a rectangular loom, the stitch immediately across from the first one -- with your fingers. Place it on the crochet hook with the first stitch.
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Pull backward on the crochet hook to bring the second stitch through the first one. You have bound off your first stitch.
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Rotate the crochet hook 180 degrees, if you're using a rectangular loom. Pick up the next stitch in the first row with the end of your crochet hook. If you're using a round loom, pick up the next stitch in the circle. You'll have two stitches on the crochet hook.
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Pull the stitch you just picked up through the previous stitch. If you're using a rectangular loom, turn the hook again to pick up the stitch across from the one you just worked. Continue working in this fashion -- pulling the last stitch through the next -- until you have one loop left on the crochet hook.
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Cut the yarn and pull it through the last loop on the crochet hook to finish the scarf.
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Tips & Warnings
Choose a crochet hook that corresponds to the yarn weight. For example, worsted-weight yarn -- perhaps the most common weight for loom knitting -- requires a size H(8) hook. One size larger or smaller (a G or I hook) will work fine.
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