How to knit
A Blanket With Loop Yarn
How to Make a Loop Yarn Blanket
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hi this is Jessica with QC crestcom
today I'm gonna be showing you how to
make this easy finger knit blanket you
don't need any knitting needles or
crochet hooks all we're gonna be using
today is this really neat loop yarn and
it's nice and soft and it makes a
beautiful blanket and yeah all you need
is this yarn your hands and a pair of
scissors for a good size throw blanket
about 50 by 60 inches you're going to
need seven skeins of the loop yarn so
first you want to count off the number
of loops that is going to make the width
of your blanket for my 50 by 60 inch
blanket I counted out 70 loops across
and that's not including you need to
leave two extra loops at the end and I
will show you what we're going to do
with those oh that one already came
apart but um each of the loops is held
together by a piece of thread in the
middle here so all you need to do is
take a pair of scissors and snip right
in the middle because you want a nice
little tail about that long so that's
usually just two loops for the tail snip
two of them and then go ahead and count
out 70 loops if you want to make a nice
size throw for demonstration purposes
I'm just going to count out ten loops so
one two three four five six seven eight
nine ten and then it's a good idea you
don't have to but I found it helpful to
take a safety pin and Mark that last
loop especially when you are dealing
with counting out 70 loops you want to
make sure that you remember which one
you're supposed to be on so that's going
to be your first row and then you're
gonna take all of your your yarn move it
to the other side not the blanket and
kind of pull this yarn this way and the
next row we're gonna do what is called a
knit
stitch and this is the easiest stitch
for you to do all you do is take this
next row and you're going to take the
loop and put it pull it through the loop
from the first row so the second row of
loops here is coming from the back and
you're pulling it up through the first
row so again back row loop comes through
the first row and you need to make sure
as you're doing this especially the
first row it's going to get a little bit
wonky and make sure that everything is
straight none of your loops are twisted
and make sure you're pulling those loops
through all the way and definitely for
the first few rows you want to do this
on the table or on the floor not sitting
like on the couch alright so once you
gotten through that row you're going to
take I like to take the bulk of my
thread and move it to the other side of
whatever I'm working on and then you're
gonna do the same thing so again the
knit stitch is pulling this new row of
loops through the back of the previous
row of loops so I pulled that through
the back pull this one and make sure you
don't skip any loops or you'll end up
with a hole or a gap in the blanket so
this was our knit stitch now we're gonna
switch off to doing a purl stitch so for
the purl stitch I take my the bulk of my
yarn and I'll move it across the work
but you want to bring it to the bottom
that's gonna make it just easier for you
to sort everything else so my new row of
yarn I'm bringing in from the bottom
you want to take the next loop and
instead of pulling it up through the
bottom of our previous row we're going
to take the new loop and pull it down
through the top of this loop so take
this loop pull it through this swing
take your new row pulling it down
through the bottom of the previous row
and then just continue that along the
row so you can see how that leaves kind
of a ridge on this side that is what the
created the border on my blanket so I
did two rows of the knit stitch and then
I'm gonna do two rows of the purl stitch
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so again we're just coming in with our
new row bringing it through the top of
our last row and I want to show you
really quickly before we move on to
create this border that was consistent
around the entire blanket I actually
switched off when I got to each end here
so this is the knit stitch all the way
across for the first two rows and then I
did the purl stitch along here but the
last two loops here are the knit stitch
again because I wanted the knit stitch
to be all the way around the blanket so
knit stitch a whole row a whole roll of
knit stitch again a row of the purl
stitch but two knit stitches at the end
another row of purl stitch with just two
knit stitches at the end and then for
the entire rest of the blanket until I
got to the very end and I was almost
finished I did the knit stitch for every
row except for the two so I left four
there's one two three four stitches here
at the
and so these two are going to be purl
stitches and then two more knit stitches
you don't need to do this if you want to
just do the whole thing in it stitches
that's totally fine or you can do the
whole thing in the purl stitch if you
like that better
either way it's totally fine now say
you've run out of yarn or you want to
start another color if you're at the end
of the row I will show you how to do
that you want to leave one two loops at
the end and then just snip in between
those two loops and then just like we
did at the beginning go ahead and snip
in between the loops to release them and
then you'll have a tail there and just
go ahead and keep that like that for now
and then at the end we will go back
after the blanket is finished and weave
those ends in and I've got my new color
that we're gonna bring in here and just
like we did previously we're gonna snip
open two of the loops on the end to
leave a tail lay this new row out above
your work and just like we were doing
before bring the new yarn in from the
back to the front through the previous
row
super easy and just leave that tail on
the right side here and and boy we'll
weave that in later so again we just
continue with that yarn bring it across
to the other side so now say that you're
going along and you want to switch
colors in the middle of a row I've done
a few stitches here and now I'm going to
stop here so leave two loops again snip
that off
snip open the two loops like always
and then we're gonna bring in our other
color here and I've already made a tail
on this one by snipping two of the loops
and so we stitched through the swoop and
now we are going to continue stitching
with the purple this loop here so then
just continue down and you kind of want
to take these tails here and just tuck
them in the back and we'll save that for
later all right so say you're ready to
stop now your blanket is finished you
want to leave two loops at the end step
that off make your tail and then we're
going to take the loop on the opposite
side and we're going to take the loop
next to it so the one to the left here
and we're going to put it through the
first one on the right and pull that up
so this becomes this was our loop that
was on the left this becomes our new
loop so it's kind of like a crochet move
we're taking the loop on the left put it
through the one on the right and then
this one is our new loop that we're
using so continue that along the line
left through the right you can also do
it the other way if you happen to end on
the other side it doesn't matter just
make sure your opposite the tail that
you left then you should end up with
this nice braided look on the top here
and we have our last loop here that we
need to secure so take the tail thread
it through the loop here now you can
just kind of like weave this tail back
in on the back under some of the
stitches but I like to make it extra
secure and I don't know if I'm breaking
any knitting rules doing this but I'm
going to tie a knot
maybe that's the embroiderer and me that
likes to tie knots but I feel like with
this fluffy yarn you can get away with
it and you can't
so I've tied a knot there to secure that
and now we need to take care of all of
our loose ends so we turn the blanket
over and remember how we did a color
change right here there's gonna be kind
of a gap here so what you go and want to
do is tie a knot I like to tie a double
knot there and that's gonna make it so
you don't have that gap in the back but
then we still have this string here so
all that you have to do then is just
take your extra bits of yarn and I like
to follow the same color so you can't
see it as much and again we're working
on the back of the blanket and pull that
up a little bit and thread the yarn
under and again we're gonna go over a
stitch take the yarn thread that under
if you want to make this a little bit
easier you can take a crochet hook push
that through one of the stitches and
that's going to make it easier to grab
the yarn on the other side and then just
pull that through not necessary but I
did find that that makes it a lot easier
so do you got about three or four times
and then this one I'm going to take the
opposite direction and then once you've
done that a few times you can just go
really close to the blanket being
careful not to cut through any of your
stitches and just cut off those ends
there and then we're gonna do the same
thing with all of these other ends that
we've got these pieces at the end
there's no need to tie knots for these
ones these ones are already pretty
secure and there's no gaps or anything
oh and just to show you what happens
when you skip a loop look at that right
there I skipped a loop so to take care
of that I am just going to leave that
under some of these extra stitches
and thankfully this fluffy yarn helps
that disappear quite easily and then
once you get all your loose ends woven
and you shouldn't be able to see
anything and everything should be nice
and secure and you've got yourself a
nice cushy cozy blanket for these cold
winter days so I'm gonna teach my
ten-year-old how to do this and I'm
thinking that maybe she might want to
make some scarves for her friends for
Christmas or something so it's a good
teen or tween crafts but also fun for me
as an adult to do and have something to
do while I'm sitting watching TV super
relaxing and a really easy and fun
project to whip up I hope you enjoyed
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