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How to Tie a Half-Hitch Knot

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Getting Started
How to Tie a Half-Hitch Knot

To start the half-hitch knot, pass your needle under the thread where you want to make the knot.

Jennifer VanBenschoten
When you tie a half-hitch knot, you can make this knot around the threads between beads in stitches such as peyote, brick, netting and right angle weave. This tutorial illustrates the knot being made on the side of a sample of peyote stitch for clarity.

To start the half-hitch knot, pass your needle under the thread where you want to make the knot.

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