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Start by placing the
"starter brick stitch" on your middle finger. |

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Take the longer strand that
points towards you and bring it UP, OVER and ACROSS the starter stitch to
form the first loop. Use your pointer finger to hold this loop between it and
your middle finger, as shown... |

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The other long end, the one
facing away from you, should then be brought UP, OVER and ACROSS the starter
stitch to sit next to the first loop to form your second loop. Use your pinky
finger to hold this loop against your ring finger... |

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Take one of the inner
strands UP and OVER its nearest loop, then ACROSS and UNDER the second
loop... |

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...and let that short
strand hang off your hand. Note how the second yellow loop, the one on the
right, holds the pink strand in place. If you had started with the other pink
strand, you'd note that it would fall out of the loops, which is NOT what you
want to do! :-) |

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Alright, now grab the other
short strand of the same color and bring it UP and OVER the nearest loop,
then ACROSS and UNDER the far loop... |

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...and let this strand flop
off your hand as well. In this shot, note the possible problem we might have
if we're not careful. Can you see it? Look closely at the last pink strand we
were working with... |

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Continuing, grab the next
short strand, on the opposite side, and bring it UP and OVER the first, then
ACROSS and UNDER the second loop. (Are you still looking at the second pink
strand? The problem is still there...) |

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Pull this strand through
fully. Note how I corrected the problem with the pink strand from earlier?
Did you catch what the problem WAS? That strand was TWISTED and would have
caused the finished stitch to have an odd appearance when you compared it to
all the other stitches. |

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Finish your last short
strand now: UP and OVER the first loop, then ACROSS and UNDER the second
loop... |

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...and pull it through.
We're ready to start pulling this stitch together! |

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I zoomed out quite a bit
for this shot. Note, specifically, the placement of my fingers. This is that
4-way pulling I was talking about earlier. I use my thumbs and pointer
fingers to pull away from each other in one direction, while at the same time
using the remaining fingers and the cup of my palms to pull away from each
other in the opposite direction. |

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Zoomed in a bit more and
you can see how a finished twist stitch looks almost identical to a brick
stitch. |

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Here's what the stitching
looks like after a bit of work... |

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...and here's the ever
popular "bullseye" view, ready for one last stitch. |
Continue working the Twist Stitch until the SHORTEST
working strand you have is between 3½ and 4 inches long, then do a BRICK COMPLETION STITCH to finish
off this project. |

A Twist Stitch Project, properly completed!
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