Put the thread round the point of the needle, still bringing it towards you, bend the needle backwards to form a loop, and withdraw the stitch from the point of the left-hand needle.
Begin by bringing the thread in front of the right-hand needle, which slip into a stitch pointing towards you; that is in the reverse of the usual mode (see diagram).
Slip the end of the left-hand needle out of the stitch, and a new stitch is knitted.
Then take the other needle in the right hand, slip the point in the first stitch, and put the thread round it; bring forward the point of the right-hand needle, so that the thread forms a loop on it.
This forms a raised spot in plain knitting and is executed as follows: knit 1, and leave it on the left-hand needle; put the stitch you have made with the right needle back on the left, and knit it off.
The right-hand needle is inserted through the stitch from right to left in front of the left needle.
Slip the first stitch off the left needle and insert the right needle into the next stitch and repeat from *, till all the stitches have been transferred to the right-hand needle (Figure 257).
To knit, the right-hand needle is in the first loop from the point of the other needle.
It is best to remove the head and transfix it with the left-hand needle, then to scalp the head by removing the dorsal half of the chitinous carapace.
The point of the right-hand needle is then inserted under the edge of the third or fourth abdominal segments.
The antennary groove of the flea should then be transfixed and held firmly by the left-hand needle.
Take one stitch off without knitting; knit one, then slip the point of the left-hand needle in the unknitted stitch and draw it over the other.
Slip the point of the right-hand needle in a loop, bring the thread round it, and with the forefinger push the point of the needle off the loop so that the thread just twisted round forms a new one on the right hand.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hand needle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
