hello gorgeous welcome back to my channel I haven't
been gone for a couple of weeks because my filmmaker producer director
all-of-the-above has been filming in Canada but he's back and we're back at
it and I'm filming a super requested video because a couple I don't know
maybe a month ago or so I made this blanket format and I talked about it on
Instagram I hand crocheted it and I don't think I've ever had something more
requested than this from you guys you want to know how I did it and want me to
do a tutorial and let me just tell you it is cozy this blanket is much bigger
than what most people would want but I made a throw blanket size and Matt
wanted a bigger one so I made it a king bed size which is huge but anyways I'm
gonna show you how I did it and it's actually really easy and it's I think
it's really fun it's one of those things that's just like watch TV while you
crochet and all in I think maybe this took me probably under three hours to do
a huge king sized blanket so I'm going to show you how I did it
and what you need so let's get started all you need are your hands and some
yarn so you want the thick yarn if you're using if you're doing the the
actual regular thin yarn it's not going to work you're not gonna get the same
effect you don't need a needle it's it's literally just your hands so I'm sitting
next to our Christmas tree we're here in Ohio and this is our first time that
we've ever decorated for the holidays here and I needed a tree skirt well my
mother-in-law sent me a picture of somebody had taken a blanket that looks
just like the one that I made and wrapped it around their tree skirt and
I'm like oh my gosh that's brilliant another tree skirt but they wrapped it
under the tree to make it the tree skirt so I'm gonna make a tree skirt with you
guys I will give you the instructions on how to make an actual blanket size too
but the one I'm doing today is actually going to go under the Christmas tree so
all you need is yarn now this is the big I think the actual term for it is big
blanket yarn the first set of yarn that I got for the other
blanket was from Hobby Lobby but any craft store is gonna have that this is
from Michaels and also wait till it goes on sale there are $9.99 for a skein
which a skein is one roll and I unrolled it and put it this way because McKinley
kept playing with it so it's $9.99 per scheme so your typical throw blanket is
gonna be 16 so that would be expensive $60 so wait till they go on sale this
week they were buy one get one half off so I got it 2 for 15 so I'm doing a tree
skirt with 4 Skeens maybe less and then so that would be
under $30 to do the tree skirt okay so find your end of your yarn and all
you're gonna do is create a loop so there's my circle right there and then
I'm going to take it through the loop and then tighten it to have the end like
that so your little tail don't worry if you have one you can snip that off later
I'm actually gonna redo it again to show you one more time so we're gonna the
circle of the loop and then through the loop and that's it so this is where you
get to decide what you want it to look like so you can have a tighter stitch
like that Matt likes the tighter stitch for his blanket because it doesn't let
as much air get through or I'll show you the other end of my blanket it's got a
little bit of a looser stitch so it depends on what you're going for you can
go either way for the tree skirt I wanted to look a little bit more lazy a
little bit more comfortable I guess so I'm gonna make I'm going to keep the the
loops about that size so all I'm gonna do is take the end and loop it through
and tighten it till I get the same loop size again so now I've got two loops I'm
gonna do it again three loops so I'm just gonna keep going until I get the
link that I want now if you're doing a throw blanket
I would suggest somewhere between 20 to 25 loops for the chain so I'm gonna go
ahead and do my chain and then we will pick it back up from there okay so my
chain is 40 long which if you think about that's a very long throw blanket
it's my entire arm span so that's you probably
don't want to go this long if you're doing like a lap throw but for under the
tree it's good so I've got exactly 40 so what I want to do is I want to add an
extra loop on the end because that extra loop is going to be my turn around so
you need to figure out what side your is gonna be your front and what side is
going to be your back it doesn't really matter because it looks the same both
sides but once you choose you don't want to flip back and forth or your blankets
gonna look wonky so this is gonna be my front facing upward alright so this is
my corner stitch I'm gonna leave it hanging up like that and I'm gonna go
underneath this loop right here and bring it through and up so do you see
now that I've got the two stitches so this is my corner stitch and this is my
new stitch and then going to do it again under the next loop through so it's just
like that another loop and then I find the next one
pull it through and up and I'm gonna repeat that all the way down the line
and when I get to the end of the line I'm going to count to make sure I have
exactly the right number of loops which should be 40 and the reason that I want
to do that is because if you drop a stitch you're gonna get a mark in your
blanket when when you're done and you don't want that so the easiest way that
I found to do this is to throw my yarn way out to set this on the floor so I
like to set this on the floor and work at it this way so that I can see exactly
what I'm doing versus holding it in the air you're much
more likely not to miss a stitch when you're working over top of it and just
work your way down the row okay so I've got about I think six rows here that
I've been doing working on and I decided to come to a stopping point and
nothing's changed obvious honestly it's just loops forty loops back and forth
back and forth but I don't flip it over all I'm doing is continuing to lay it on
its back and do the loops from behind so that I can make sure that this side
looks this way and this side looks this way so I got to the end of my ball of
yarn and I went ahead and I just tied a knot
to the new ball and if there's any if you've any details just snip it off with
scissors but it's no big deal I mean you won't even notice the knot it's gonna
get hidden in the blanket and just so that you guys know this is the brand
that I use its own burn at big blanket or blanket big burn at blanket big and
the color I'm using is soft white so all I'm doing now is keeping it down the
same way and I just take the loops from the back like this all the way from one
end to the other until I get the length that I want so I'm gonna keep working
and I will check back in when we get to the last row because that's where we get
tricky alright I think I'm done so I've got my 40 stitches all the way across
and I've got my end stitch ready to go so I'm gonna show you guys how to end
this now so all you do you don't unravel it okay so you pull through and then I'm
going to go to the next loop and go through another loop through another
loop and pick up the next one and go through and then pick up another loop go
through and basic and that's all you're doing you're just braiding it across the
top so that you're gonna have that same stitch down both sides and on the top
it's super easy so again I've got my loop I'm gonna go through my stitch
through the loop pick up a stitch through the next loop pick up a stitch
next loop pick up a stitch next loop pick up and final loop so I pull through
my last stitch so all I'm gonna do now is give myself a little bit of a tail
and tie off a knot so that I can be sure
that it doesn't let go so right there's may not go back through and and loosen
anything that you want but it looks pretty darn good to me
it looks like I bought it at a store so snip off your tail and anywhere else
that you might have a tail oh shoot I missed one loop look at that if you
don't if you don't count every single time you're going to do that so the way
that you fix that is you would just twist it under and then you take a
needle and thread and just and then just stitch it but it is what it is so here
is my finished tree skirt and I'm gonna put it under the tree let's see how it
looks
all right I think it turned out so cute like I said you only need about twenty
links to do a throw blanket size for a lap blanket my mother-in-law got in
there and popped in some literal trash underneath of it and popped it up and
made it look more full sorry I'm just checking to make sure that my microphone
is on because this is my second time recording the first time we forgot to
turn the microphone on and it just made it look more full and if I don't know it
really fits the the feel of the tree and I love it I think it you're not really
really cute so I hope you guys enjoyed this this was definitely my most
requested video in a very long time don't forget to visit me on my blog
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next Monday au revoir