How to knit
A Baby Blanket With Straight Needles For Beginners
How to Knit: Step by Step Baby Blanket (Free Pattern)
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hey guys I'm here today to show you how
to knit the sweet light blanket the
latest free PDF download from woodland
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it's very simple it's very fun it's very
easy it's meant for babies so any of you
were babies in your life maybe need to
make a present maybe you got your own
it's perfect
it's also perfect for beginners not
SuperDuper beginners not like this is my
first knitting project beginners put
like just after and all you need is
three of these this is shiny happy
cotton we've chosen chalk yellow cuz
it's great
I take measure your pattern some
scissors I needle some knitting needles
specifically size eight us or five mils
we're gonna teach you through way and
lots of knitting and purling how to make
this beautiful most slash seed stitch
baby Beckett let's go so the very first
step to making your blanket is getting
all of your stitches onto your needle or
109 like we have here and we'll be
teaching you how to get all of your
stitches on your needle using the cable
cast on technique and here's a bit of a
blanket I made earlier and this
hopefully shows you why we're gonna be
using that technique it gives a really
lovely clean and elegant and neat finish
okay so step one is to create our slip
knot our slip knot is effectively the
very first stitch of our blanket we
begin by just unraveling some of the
yarn from the pool and then at the tail
end so that side pick it up with your
left hand a little bit further down pick
it up with your right hand take that
left hand lift it over make a loop
ideally make a do big enough for both of
your fingers to fit through
pick up that tail end again and there
you go you have a nice little slip knot
now at least happened as you put it onto
your needle and then you just pull it a
little bit tighter against the needle
but yes nope not super tight because you
have to get the other needle through
there eventually - there you go your
first stitch is up so now we're ready to
get the other 108 stitches onto this
needle with your left hand and pick up
the needle with the slip knot on and
what we're gonna do is you take the
other needle in your right hand and then
you're just gonna put it through that
loop and then picking up the yarn that
is attached to the pool very important
in your right hand you just loop around
the right hand needle give it a cheeky
push scoop it up make it nice and long
because then we're gonna bring it over
that left hand needle put a little bit
tighter and there you go - lovely
stitches on your needle only a hundred
and seven to go so then what you need to
do actually is just insert your needle
in between these stitches and then lift
it over just like you did before
push it down scoop it up pull lift it
over there you go and that's how you
continue you just continue and continue
until you've done the 409 stitches
exactly like this
all right guys hopefully you have 109
stitches on one of your needles great
work and now we're gonna get going on
showing you how to do the moss stitch or
for you Americans the seed stitch I also
want to show you why we're gonna end up
slipping the very first stitch on your
needle at the beginning of every row
the reason is check out this beautiful
edge nice and neat that's why so now
we're finally ready to actually get
missing our must itch so we begin by
first lifting that very first stitch
just straight off your left needle and
onto your right needle and that's for
that really nice and the edge that we
looked at just before so just insert
your right needle under lift it up and
over give a cheeky tug done and now the
entire must itch is just made up of
alternating unit and purl stitches
that's it we're gonna start with a knit
stitch so you insert that right needle
through the loop underneath on your left
needle bring that yarn round push it
down scoop it up and lift it over so now
we go to pearls we're alternating
remember so we just put that yarn
in-between and bring it to the front
with purling it should always be at the
front and then insert that needle down
bring the yarn round like that and lift
it over now bring the yarn to the back
because now we're knitting and push
scoop it up and lift and a little tuck
yarn in the middle
and that's it
that's it that's the whole gig so now
you just keep going for 109 stitches and
then we'll explain what to do on the
next row
so if you look at these three stitches
here you'll see that this one has a
little lump here this one has a bit more
of a V and then we're back to the little
lump again now these two little lumps
those are purl stitches this V over here
that's a knit stitch so that's it so
we've done our first row and now we just
need to see how do we start the second
row because as soon as you can master
that you can basically just keep on
going we begin by doing exactly the same
as last time remember just take your
right hand needle stick it under lift it
up off the left hand needle give it a
cheeky tug that's it and then we're
going to knit the stitch the next one
loop it around push it down scoop it up
lift it over then bring that yarn
forward again for your prostate there we
go
and scoop and lift and so on and so
forth just knitting and purling forever
after a little bit of time hopefully
your blanket is starting to look
something like this and you can see that
lovely must itch or seed stitch pattern
emerging I just want to take a break for
a second and just show you a little
trick so that you know that you're doing
the right stitch here we're trying to
get all of our new stitches onto our
right needle so what we need to do
actually is just look at our left needle
and you'll see that purl bump there the
NIP V and that purl bump again so what
we know is this is a purl stitch which
actually means that our new stitch needs
to be the opposite so it needs to be a
knit stitch a hand off we go and so now
we see that V and we know we need to
bring our yarn forward and do the
opposite stitch do the purl stitch there
we go scoop and bring it over and again
there's our bump so we've got a knit
stitch so bring that yarn to the back
scoop it under and lift it up and so on
and so forth and how do you know you've
reached the end of your blanket well
it's when you've got 220 3.5 inches or
60 centimeters from the edge of your
lovely cable cast edge when you've got
to that stage you know that it's time to
do some casting off so that's what we're
gonna go on to next okay guys now we're
ready to cast off
step one is just knitting these two
stitches and getting them onto your
right needle so here we go we've done
this a thousand times before one and one
more time one more time and two okay
lovely now we have two stitches on your
right hand needle and what we're gonna
do now is actually lift this stitch over
that one and off your right needle
entirely
it's a little bit fiddly because the
yarns a bit thinner as you can see so
you might have to use your fingers as
well
and there we go beautiful so then we
just need to repeat that move again knit
a stitch in order to get two stitches
over on your right hand needle and then
again just bring that bottom one over
that one and over the needle entirely
and again it's a little fiddly but we're
gonna get there and there we go so
that's it and we just keep going that is
the long and the short of casting off so
just bear with me I just got a few more
to do right guys we should just have one
solitary little stitch left on our right
hand needle now you should be able to
kind of just admire that handiwork
that's super sweet cast off edge right
there great so now we need to get this
guy off right and we need to do it in a
nice and tidy fashion so first measure
aprox like 10 ish centimeters that's 10
ish tarnish four ish inches and we're
gonna give him we're gonna give him a
little chop there we go alright so now
all you do is just pull just pull that's
it that is it
so now though we have this 10
centimeters we can't just chop it off
because it runs the risk of unraveling
so what we have to do is sneak it in
here and weave it in and we're gonna do
that with the use of our good friend the
needle
okay so now that we've threaded it all
we're gonna do is just weave in and out
of our existing stitches and until we've
basically finished it so that without
disturbing any of these stitches and
just so that this is hidden so we're
going this side and this side and little
sneak back over here we're just taking a
nagging and weeding and you'll see that
it's not too visible it's not disturbing
stitches and then when you feel like
you've done enough I think I'm gonna do
a couple more
okay one more
then just grab those scissors and give
it a listen it
and just because we didn't think there
was anyone better to model sweet like
blanket a baby but then an actual baby
we kind of semi whoever seems to be more
to it in the needles you need a needle
don't touch you need some scissors and
the baby if you don't
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