hi my name is Shahnaz and I'm the
founder of knit aid a social enterprise
set up to help knitters help others in
need today I'm going to be showing you
how to make a chunky blanket made up of
knitted squares we are going to be
collecting these squares sewing them up
and making them into blankets to send to
refugee families who have fled war-torn
countries and are now living in cold
camping conditions in Europe I'm going
to be showing you how to cast on do the
knit stitch cast off and sew your
squares together I'll be using 15
millimeter or us 19 sized needles
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and a sewing needle let's get started so
first of all we're going to cast on take
our full of wool find the end of the
yarn which can be found just tucked in
the middle there so to cast on we're
going to do a slip knot to do a slip
knot we're going to do loop as if to
make a knot and take this loop through
and pull it tight like that and that's a
slip knot then we're going to put the
slip knot onto our needle and that makes
our first stitch
now we're going to cast on using the
basic cast on method to do this we need
to hold the yarn in your hand like this
and wrap the yarn around your thumb like
that it's almost like a little pointer
like that and with the end of your
needle we need to go under that loop
there and put it onto the needle and
that's your first Caston
so just to repeat you hold the yarn like
this wrap it around your thumb and pull
the needle underneath we're going to be
casting on 14 stitches to make a square
of 20 centimeters wide which is around
seven and a half inches so again
so now it's going to check that we've
got 14 stitches there now to knit we
take this needle with all the stitches
and put it onto our left hand and take
the empty needle into your right hand
now to do your first knit stitch you'll
need to go into this first loop here
like this so from front to back
so that it makes a nice cross like that
and with your left hand hold both
needles and with your right hand you
take the yarn under and over that needle
and hold the yarn needle together with
the right hand needle you start pulling
it out from underneath and pushing it on
to the top to make another cross and
with that you take that stitch off the
needle
and that's your first knit stitch so
I'll show you again so you go from front
to back like this until you make a cross
hold both needles of your left hand and
with your free hand you take the yarn
under over start to pull that bottom
needle out so that it's sitting on the
top like that close and off that's your
second stitch so again on the front to
back and don't over pull it out on top
and
you repeat that over and over again
until you finished all right so make
sure that you're always working to the
point of the needle where it starts
tapering off you don't want to be
working too far to the top or to bite
down the needle because you'll find it
quite tricky to work with or that the
stitches just fall off
and then the the last ditch which was
your Slipknot that you're part of a
start you do exactly the same so nothing
different with that one and there we go
we have our first knitted row now to
knit our next row we take the needle and
turn it round so that all the stitches
are in our left hand again and the empty
needle is in our right hand now these
little bubbles here are your last
knitted row so we don't want to be
knitting into those we want to be
knitting into that stitch there and then
we continue as we did the last row when
we knit every row the stitch is called
the Garter stitch and that's the stitch
that we use to make this funky
so we knit every row until your piece
measures 20 centimeters in length so
your finished square will be 20
centimeters wide by 20 centimeters in
length so it's going to look a little
bit odd now a little bit uneven but
don't worry keep knitting I promise it
will come out looking really nice last
it's there
so there's our square there 20
centimeters wide and 20 centimeters long
to cast off take the needle with all the
stitches in your left hand as usual and
the empty needle in your right hand and
now to cast off we need to always have
two stitches on our right needle so
we're going to knit two stitches one two
with those two stitches we're going to
take the first stitch and pull it over
the second stitch so then we've cast off
one stitch there and we have one stitch
left on our right hand needle so to
repeat that we want two stitches back on
this needle so we'll knit one more so we
have two stitches on that needle and
with the tip of our left hand needle we
take that first stitch and pop it right
over the second stitch so we knit
another one to two stitches on our right
hand needle and then with the point of
the left a needle take it under the
first stitch and pull it over the second
stitch
so here you can see you've started to
cast off your cast off three stitches
there so keep going until the end of the
row and the last stitch you knit again
and you pull that first stitch over the
second stitch so then you're left with
one stitch on your needle like that all
right so we're just gonna remove that
needle you have a look at our square and
that's your cast off stitches there cut
the yarn about an arm's length and with
that final loop we'll take the end of
the yarn and put it through just pull it
tight that's our square so now we're
going to sew our squares together if you
think a large sewing needle gonna thread
the yarn into the needle so when we knit
our guard to stitch this horizontally
like this when we stitch our squares
together we're going to alternate gutter
stitch so that one of them is vertical
and the other one's horizontal
so say your two squares together you
want to identify the little bumps right
on the edge of this piece and the
vertical bumps on the edge of this piece
so we're going to be going from these
bumps into these bumps so starting with
the right hand side but I needle
straight through that first loop there
and then bring that yarn over to your
other square and put it through this
first loop here
with the next square you go through the
loop on the edge there and then you go
to the alternating loop on the other
side
and then the final stitch on each side
just finish up the last little oops
that's now really neatly stitched
together and with these ends we just
want to weave them in so in weaving in
the ends I'm just sort of hiding them in
the the original pattern of the garter
stitch now tie a knot and cut it off
thirty five squares later here's all we
made earlier it's all ready to center a
refugee camp in Europe
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