Hand-operated knitting apparatus

A pair of flat needle beds are disposed in a V-configuration on a frame. Each needle bed includes a plurality of needles which can be extended and retracted by manually grasping butts thereof. When the needles of both beds are extended, a generally V-shaped recess is defined therebetween along which a yarn to be knitted is laid by hand. For single knitting, one of the flat needle beds can be omitted and an attachment can be secured to the frame which has a plurality of fingers which co-operate with the needles in the remaining bed.