A few days ago Naiya came home from school all excited about her new skill. She learned finger knitting in her Waldorf kindergarten and was able to teach it to me herself in about three minutes. (I love it when the craft sharing switches direction from daughter to mommy!) I never knew this was so super easy. It's much like spool knitting but done on the hand. Since we've never been able to successfully knit on our little doll spool, (perhaps because we wind the yarn too tightly?) we were glad to find this simple alternative. I know many, many of you probably already know how to do this and, quite likely, there are lots of tutorials around on the internet but, what the heck, this project was so delightful for me, I'm just going to share here anyhow. I tried to photograph Naiya's demonstration, but it's a bit challenging to get a six year old to stop for a photograph each step along the journey of creation, so these are my dry, calloused hands you're seeing. (Also, it's hard to take photographs of your own hands when one of them is holding the camera. I hope it still makes sense.) More ...
