posted 01-29-2001 02:09 PM               

The fingers are lettered ABCD starting with the index finger, so as examples RA would be the right index finger and LC would be the left ring finger. The movements generally involve sticking an open finger through one or two loops to grab a loop off of a different finger. If the instructions say to take a loop reversed that means to take the loop such that the bottom part of the loop becomes the top part on the new finger. The other common movement is to switch a loop from one finger to another in order to create an open finger.

Start out with the loops in the following configuration:
LA - Yellow RA -
B - Green B - Green
C - Green C - Green
D - D - Orange

Repeat the following five steps:
1. RA through RB & RC takes LC reversed
2. Switch LB to LC
3. LB through LC takes RC reversed
4. LA takes RD and RD takes LA
5. Switch RB to RC and RA to RB

In practice I tend to combine steps 2 & 3 into a single motion.
Also the two loops that make the center line (yellow and orange) tend to get used a bit faster than the others, so I compensate by making them a little longer to start. For a two foot length I might make these loops a half inch longer and they will end up a half inch shorter by the time I am done.