1. Start with the working end in your left hand, palm open and towards you, with the very end of the rope held in the notch of your left thumb.

2. Make a loop around the back of your left hand around the front, so you now have two turns of the working end laying against your left palm.

3. Repeat around the back of your left hand and around the front, so you now have three turns of the working end laying against your left palm, with the standing end hanging down on the front of your palm.

4. You are now viewing three loops around your open left palm.

5. From now on you will only move the middle loop.

6. Move the middle loop UNDER the right most loop.

7. Pull out enough slack by tugging this middle loop so you can control the size of the final loop.

8. Now move the enlarged middle loop OVER the other two loops.

9. Now move the middle loop UNDER the other two loops.

10. Grab the standing end and the working end and gently dress the knot so a loop is on top and the ends come out the sides.

11. This knot is an alternate to the Bowline, and has as its main virtue that you can tie it in the middle of a line.

12. It is easy to untie.

13. The Bowline is called the King of Knots and the Alpine Butterfly Loop is called the Queen of Knots.

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