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When Jessica Stout started to knit in the first grade she literally had no idea that in just four short years, she would attain the world’s longest finger knitting goal.

Jessica, now a fifth grader at Rappahannock County Elementary School, was taught to finger knit by her first grade teacher, Mrs. Piper at Northwestern Elementary School in Marshall.

Finger knitting is the art of creating a chain stitch with your fingers without using knitting needles or crocheting hooks. V

Since that time Jessica has produced hundreds of yards of finger knitting. Jessica and her family had no idea what to do with the finished product. They tried using it as doll hair and with other arts and craft projects, however, the enormous ball of knitting never seem to disappear.

Then last year in February, while in the fourth grade, Jessica had an idea to find out what the world record was for finger knitting. She could find no information on the Web site and decided to e-mail the Guinness Book of World

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