How to knit
A Baby Blanket With Circular Needles
How to Knit a Blanket With Circular Knitting Needles
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hey guys today I'm going to show you how
to knit a blanket on circular knitting
needles I'm going to be showing you how
to use circular knitting needles without
actually having to knit something in the
round like a sweater or a hat so in this
case I'm just going to be knitting a
blanket and we're going to be using the
circular knitting needles to make a
really wide blanket something that you
normally couldn't knit on normal
knitting needles to get started you're
just going to need a pair of circular
knitting needles and your yarn getting
started on a project with circular
knitting needles that isn't actually
going to be knit in the round it's
actually very easy you just need to cast
on your stitches like you do with any
normal project for a project like a
blanket you will need to cast on a lot
of stitches you can start at around 150
but then you can fit on like up to 200
or 300 on one of these circular knitting
needles it might just get really
scrunched up by the end of it but I'm
just going to cast on about 100 stitches
and then we'll go from there
once you have your stitches cast on the
best thing about this type of project is
you don't need to worry about getting it
untwisted normally if you are knitting
something in the round like a hat or
sweater you would need to make sure that
there were no twists in this cable at
all or in this I guess on the circle
needle but in this case because it's not
going to be connected into like a tube
you don't need to worry about it so this
is the most important part of knitting
on circular knitting needles but not
actually knitting in the round so you
want to pay attention here when you
start knitting you will want to knit
with the yarn in your left hand this is
probably the most important part that
will make your work not be connected
normally if you're knitting with
circular knitting needles and you want
to knit in the round you would start
your knitting with you start knitting
the very first stitch that you cast it
on so here's the end or the very start
of the knitting I would take this end
and connect it here and start knitting
and that would create a tube in the
continuous kind of loop that is normal
for knitting in the round but we don't
want to do that because we're doing a
blanket and we don't want it to be a
connected to or something like that so
you're actually going to switch it and
you're going to have the rest of your
yarn in the left hand so here is the
last stitch that I cast it on with the
rest of the yarn here attached to
everything else in the yarn I'm going to
start knitting that and I'm going to
treat this needle here on the end as if
it were just a normal needle just doing
two needles like normal so you're not
going to need to worry about the end or
the beginning of this yarn over here
just push it down and you can start
knitting with this yarn with the left
stitch with the most recent stitch that
you did and what that will do is it will
bring everything over onto the next
needle it'll keep pushing it down in the
circle but it won't be connected to the
other end of it so it won't
form like a sweater or a hat
anything that's tubular you won't need
to worry about that forming so here I've
already started doing my next row here
and it's not going to be connected to
the beginning here and I don't need to
worry about accidentally making a
sweater I'm going to knit a couple rows
of this and then I'll show you what it
looks like to give you a better idea of
how the blanket will be forming on this
eventually as you keep knitting you'll
end up with something like this which is
still just a start of a blanket I only
got like two inches of length here but
this gives you more of an idea of what
it's going to be looking like as you
progress this is just a simple little
blanket I've got a couple cables here
that I have running through here when
you reach the end of a row like I am
here I'm ready to start a new row all
you do is you just take the end of your
circular knitting needle and with the
yarn to take the yarn here in your left
hand and you just start knitting again
so just like I showed you before we have
the Knitting just going here normally
and eventually all this is going to be
going onto this side of the circular
knitting needle meanwhile the end of the
blanket is still over here and just very
slowly it's going to work its way all
the way around this circle gonna go this
way
adding on is the next row here and then
it's going to continue going around and
around in a circle when you get to the
end of a row
like I showed you for just knit it off
finish the row and then slide everything
down here on to the right and then for
the end of the circular knitting needle
you just flip everything over like
normal when you're knitting with normal
knitting needles flip it over and pick
up the other end and then you start
again with the yarn behind you and you
can just start knitting again
you can use a circular knitting needle
for a lot of different projects doesn't
have to be just for like huge really
wide blankets if it's like a white scarf
or something you can still use circular
knitting needles and sometimes stores
will have a small really a lot smaller
size circular knitting needle and you
can use that for pretty much any type of
normal knitting project circular
knitting needles are super nice to use
though just because you don't have to
worry about carrying around two
different needles and when your project
is here you can just slide it down here
into the loop and you don't have to
worry about it falling apart or part of
it slipping off one thing you do need to
be careful about though is if you lift
up your project by one end just make
sure it doesn't slide off the other end
those are the basics of how to knit on a
circular knitting needle without
actually having to knit in the round
hopefully that was helpful and I will
see you next time
