An curved arrow pointing right. A woman in the Ukraine is making thick blankets out of large spools of merino wool using her arms instead of knitting needles. She's also built up quite a following ...

Well he used the arm knitting technique with extra thick yarn and no needles to create the chunky blankets. He also uses large needles to knit hats, scarves and other items.

Arm knitting is a technique in which big arm loops are "cast on" to a person's arms just below the wrists. You knit using your arms as needles, and can make everything from scarves to dresses.

But nothing beats the cozy allure of a chunky hand-knit blanket. Especially a cartoonishly oversized cloud of stitches that is made using bare hands in place of knitting needles.

The yarn is so chunky there’s no way I can fit that number onto the needle and — big knitting maverick that I am — I go with 16 instead. My big blanket is to be made by doing one row of knit ...