Hi and welcome to knit with Hannah
I'm Hannah and I'm here with Knitting natter
to help you learn to knit the easy way
this doesn't look like knitting does it?
well I am NOT knitting today but I am tidying up my knitting needles
I have had my knitting needles in a large case for a
long time it's got a zip on it and it's
long enough for a 35 centimeter needles
but I actually have so many now I have
them in wood and bamboo I have my old metal ones which I just do not want to
get rid of I've I love them so much because they're different colors they're
really beautiful to just look at and that made me think that why have I got
them hidden in a zip top bag?
why don't I just appreciate them every day?
so what I have now is these wrapped up together so
I know that they're a pair like this.
I have them in a beautiful jug that I found when I was on holiday
I went in a shop
we were walking past I saw it in the
window and I thought I want that jug
It was very, very unlike me actually
shabby chic I'm not a shabby chic kind of girl
but it just appealed to me because of
the pattern that had been painted on it
and I yep just went in there and said
that's for me I'm having it and I knew
what was gonna do what I was gonna do with it
all of my needles are stood in that now
whilst they're wrapped up as pairs so
I'm going to show you how I've done that
as you can see I have a little book of
paper here a friend sent this to me it was
just she'd had it for a while
and knew she wouldn't use it herself she realized
that I'm a paper freak sometimes I just
have too much which makes me wonder why
she sent it to me actually but I've got
it out and I've used it and this is how
I've used it I'm going to actually,
that is a beautiful one I'm gonna take that
I'm going to cut it into strips
nothing fancy I'm not getting the ruler out
and drawing the line first I'm just
going to cut that
there we go that would do I do have
a few more pairs of needles to do once I'd
done a large majority of my needles
I suddenly discovered quite a few more
that was sitting around somewhere
so I do have a pile to go through and sort
and I would do that later today I think
right now this is fun isn't it finding
the end of the sellotape!
there we go so you just need a couple of pieces for each pair of needles
there we are
so just take one needle and wrap the end
around it like that and then that piece can go there
and then it's just a case of wrapping that one next to it
and I will take that
snip that off I'm actually going to make
that piece of tape smaller and that's
nice and cozy there it's not overly tight but it's not loose it will stay on
there it's not going to lose its shape
there, I just move that up there
slightly it's nice and taut
but that's a small pair so you can see a
little bit of the pattern but not a great deal
but you'll see it more with this
there we are so this is five point five millimetre
needles I've been doing really large pairs so it looks fabulous as that
single piece of sellotape left
I'll just cut myself another piece
but because it's a lovely grain on the wood and the
bamboo the needles that I use I just
thought I'd really like to appreciate them especially as it's part of my life
that's something that happens with me something that I do something that I use
on a daily basis
my one worry about putting them in a vase like this like a
bunch of flowers or something was
actually that they get dusty but because
I'm in and out of them so often
then actually they that hasn't happened
they've been like that for a couple of months now and I move them about I'm
rummaging in them so much that I just
can go in there and use them and they
haven't had that problem
and I really like seeing them waiting for me in the
corner of the room
there we go then I will show you a photo at the end of this
if I can I'm getting to grips with editing this video I've been doing this
for since March 2017 and it's
it's early 2018 now so I I'm really enjoying
editing this what I would like to know is
do you have any questions?
if you have any questions
that I could answer there and then I'd really love to do make
videos for you it's
I've really enjoyed this year thank you so much for
being part of it
so I hope that's been helpful
if you're a new knitter and you're just starting to
build up your needles collection
then I hope that's helpful for you you could
put them in a colourful glass
or a smaller vase rather than a jug but
I really do think it's nice to have them in the corner of the room and appreciate
them rather than having them sit, like I have for so many years in a zip-top bag
where I can't really see them and I forget how much I love knitting just if
I miss it for a couple of weeks and the needles aren't there waiting for me then
I then I forget right I will think of by then if you are a new knitter and you
might like to sign up to my beginners mistakes PDF it's a series of PDFs and a
series of emails to just help you start your knitting avoid the mistakes that
might go wrong it's just one of those things that happens that there's always
whenever you're starting something new there's a few things that can stop you
dead in your tracks and I've put all those together and believe me I've made
most of those mistakes myself!
but just
just pick up on those tips and it will really help you as you get going as a
knitter okay that's the link if or that is below and there's also the link for
my website KnitWithHannah.co.uk
thank you so much for joining me
today I hope you've enjoyed how we've moved slightly away from knitting but
we're still talking about the tools
great thanks for joining me I'll see you
again soon happy knitting!