Slide the end of the yarn through the spool and make a loop around one of the pegs.

(The knot at the end of the yarn is to help show which yarn is the end and is not required.)

Lay the yarn across the spool to the next peg.

Drape the yarn around the back of the peg and back across the spool as shown in the picture.

Bring the yarn around the outside of the third peg.

Lay the yarn across the spool to the first peg as shown in the picture. It should look like figure eights between each of the pegs.

Wrap the yarn around the outside of the 1st peg and drape it across the peg towards the 2nd peg.

Make sure your new loop sits on the peg above the existing loop.

This step can be done with your fingers, but it is much easier and quicker to use a tool of some sort. There are some spool knitting kits that come with a thread puller but I’ve found crochet hooks are perfect for the job.

Put your puller/crochet hook into the bottom loop.

Take the bottom loop and pull it over the new loop and the top of the peg.

Remove your puller from the loop and turn your spool to the next peg traveling in the same direction you did when you put the yarn on the spool in the earlier steps.

Using the same figure-8 pattern as in steps 1-3, wrap the yarn around the outside of the next peg.

Repeat steps 5 and 6; continue creating stitches in this manner, going around the pegs.

The stitches will look loose as shown in the picture in step 7; tighten them by periodically pulling on the tail/end of the yarn that you dropped down through the middle of the spool in step 1.

Continue knitting until your cording reaches the desired length.

Cut the yarn leaving a tail. Slide the tail under the loop on the first peg as shown to the left. Pull the tail completely through the loop.

Remove the loop from the peg.

Repeat around the spool until all loops have been removed from the pegs.

Pull the tail to tighten the ‘knot’.

Tahdah, you did it!