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| I-cord with 3 stitches. |
I'm sure my knitting friends know how to do an I-cord... but I'll tell you anyway. On a double-pointed needle, knit across 2, 3 or 4 stitches, instead of turning the work, just slide it down to the other end of the dpn (double-pointed needle). Bring the yarn around back -- tightly, and knit across. Repeat. This forms a tube.
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| I-cord |
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| A yarn-end woven in for each toe! |
It was simple and really quite brilliant, the way the frog's toes were created. Just knittting in front and back of a stitch to add one, then picking up another needle and starting a 2-stitch I-cord for a toe, leaving the other stitches hanging out on the first dpn until you're ready to make toes out of them, too.
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| Embroidered face and legs attached. |
Knitting the legs and toes made me think of a Pencil Plant. I'd like to design a knitted version; you could shape it with pipe cleaners inside the I-cord tubes...
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| You couldn't neglect a knitted house plant... |
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