Here is how you do the basic chain. You are going to grab your string and put it in your hand like so. This is how you do a slipknot to start your project. You are going to wrap it around your finger, your pointer finger twice, leaving the straggler which I called loosened hanging down. You are going to use your thumb and your nasty finger to pinch that and using the other part of your hand, you are going to hold it tight. Well, pretty well snug in this hand. So now you have the two left on your finger.
You are going to grab the farthest, closest to the part of this hand first. You are going to lift it up and put over top the other piece leaving it toward the end of your finger like so. And using this finger to create a separation, you are just going to reach over it and pull the second string up and the other string will bounce back and you are going to pull this over your finger and that it droop, and there you go this is your first slip stitch. Now what you are going do now is just slip your needle into underneath and pull it off your finger and just pull a snug.
I am going to start you a basic chain and what you are going to do is with this hand here, it's all about the rotation of the hook. So when we go to grab it because the material is behind this on the hand, we are going to push back like so, rotate the needle so that the hook is now facing you, and now you are going to rotate it some more so that it is facing down towards your thumb and your nasty finger and you are going to drag it through that loop like so.
And that creates your first chain. So to do another chain, just readjust this hand here, grab it again and then pushing back, grabbing your material and pulling it through.
Okay, let's try it again, so I am adjusting my -- I adjusted this in my hand again, so right where I want it, pushing back, rotate, pulling underneath and the reason why we have to rotate this needle is that if you don't rotate it, you are not going to be able to get this hook through this. So when you go push back, rotate, you are rotating underneath and when you pulled through you are pulling through like a tear drops space just like so which gets it through that particular stitch.
So again push back, rotate, pull towards you, push back, rotate, push back, rotate, push back, rotate. Now the biggest thing about people making these chains is, are they make them too tight or too small or too loose and the whole concept of it is if you make it too tight, you are not going to be able to get this needle back through these chains. So the whole idea is that you want to be as consistent as possible when making these chains.
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