THE LACE NETTING KNOT 1/3(Text and photos Laura Hämäri 2016, www.knotsinanet.wordpress.com)

Setting up• Fill up your netting needle:

◦ Put the yarn through the small hole, make aknot and wind yarn around the needle.

◦ Don't overfill your needle.

• Make a slipknot that opens by pulling the tail.

• Attach your work to a cushion or a table.

The lace netting knot (for the right handed):

1.) First take a hold of your tools.

Hold the gauge in your left hand like you would hold a pen. Place it near the slip knot.

The needle is your right hand with enough yarn free to do the knots.

The yarn goes over the gauge downwards (not inthe picture).

2.) Lets begin by making a loop around the gauge and three fingers.

The needle goes behind the left hand and loops around the first, second and the ring finger.

The loop can be made also only on the first two fingers.

THE LACE NETTING KNOT 2/3(Text and photos Laura Hämäri 2016, www.knotsinanet.wordpress.com)

3.) Lets continue by making a loop around the fingers only.

The needle goes between the thumb of the left hand and the gauge. Take a look how the loop settles against the gauge.

4.) The needle makes a large loop clockwise over the net/slipknot and goes under the gauge ending up under the palm.

5.) The needle goes, on the inside of the palm, upwards through the loop on the fingers and under the gauge.

6.) The needle continues to go upwards through the eye of a previous round and over the yarn from the needle.

7.) Tighten the new loop around all the fingers of the left hand except the thumb. Crook your little finger a bit so the loop stays in place.

THE LACE NETTING KNOT 3/3(Text and photos Laura Hämäri 2016, www.knotsinanet.wordpress.com)

8.) Begin to tighten the eye.

Release the loop between the thumb and the gauge.

9.) Remove your fingers from the smaller loop around the first, second and little finger. The bigger loop stays in place.

10.) First tighten the loop on the gauge.

Pull the yarn from the needle so that the loop tightens around the gauge. Help with your little finger.

11.) End by tightening the knot.

Remove your little finger from the loop, pull the yarn downwards and tighten the knot well. The knot positions itself on the upper edge of the gauge.

Repeat stages 1.- 11. until the lace netting knot starts to feel natural and all the knots hold.