You can see how warm it is in there because my glasses are getting steamed up!
That's not a good thing! (intro)
Hi and welcome to Knit With Hannah. I'm Hannah. I'm here with knitting natter to help you learn
to knit the easy way. So we have headbands today they may be in the shop right now.
I hope when I film these I plan them well enough so that it kind of coincides slightly,
but at the very least you can get on the waiting list so that I can email
you as soon as they are in the shop. So, this is the first thing. I just want to show you these
that you can't really do the twist with. So these are knitted so you have a lot of stitches on the
needle and you knit a short way. I actually quite like knitting like that, I know a lot of you don't,
because I actually asked you in an Instagram poll. I said "If you're knitting headbands do
you like knitting few needles, a few stitches a long way, or a lot of stitches a short way?"
I prefer this. I don't know it's just me, but I know some of you really do prefer to go
like that. This really isn't suitable for doing the twist with, so let's just say very simply
"Guess what? You sew the seam up." Yeah. So I've got two sizes of these. I decided to make two patterns
so that you can see this is the smaller one and it just is slightly shorter, and it isn't quite
as long. So there you go. So that is the, lots of stitches on the needles, fewer rows. That's them, but
we can do the twist with these next ones. So this one is ribbed. It's a single one by one rib and you
can do the twist with this one. This one is garter stitch and it's really lovely and thick. So we're
doing the twist with these and I like to call this "it isn't just doing the twist it's having a hug".
You line them up (there we go) so that they are overlapping by half, and then they have
to give themselves a hug so that one goes "Oh I'm hugging you" and that end goes "Oh I'm hugging you"
so the ends are hugging each other, and please note that we're not twisting this, we're not doing
anything fancy. It is just fold it together. That's it. Fold it up but overlap it by half,
give it a hug that way, and give it a hug that way. It doesn't matter whether you give it a hug that
way or you give it a hug that way. It will work but I'm just going to do it like that. There you are. So
you can see already that it looks kind of twisted and a bit confused but that's what we want. That's
the answer. That's what we're looking for. So now all we have to do is take one of these threads.
I'm going to take this one because that's got quite a straggly end to it, and I'm going to
thread that on the needle. What you could do here
is put a bulldog clip on it or something if you want to.
You need to make sure that you catch all of the ends.
So we're going to go from that side and basically just sew all the way through,
all of the end stitches there. All the way through all of the end stitches,
backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.
Make sure you've got all four pieces of knitting.
You got two cast on pieces and two cast off pieces at every point here.
That's a really simple running stitch I'm doing right now,
but in a second I will go back over it with a more
concrete
slip stitch.
I think this kind of thing warrants just a double take to make sure everything's caught
because it is kind of difficult to catch and see exactly what it is that you're catching.
There we go.
I thought that might happen and I've knitted these in super chunky yarn and that was just so
that the finished item is thicker, so we've got a really nice thick headband. This isn't
a cotton headband that you wear in the summer to just keep your hair out of your face, this is
keep you warm, get cozy kind of headband and it's ideal if you've got long hair and you
want to show it off in the winter and it's also ideal if you want a ponytail and also I like
this kind of thing in the autumn so that it's not "cover me up it's absolutely freezing", it's
just that extra for a biting wind but you don't need it over the rest of your head like a hat.
There we go. So what I'm going to do now is just thread that yarn in quite simply
and just kind of make a little bit of a knot by going through that loop
and I'll do that a couple of times.
In and through that loop, OK?
and weave in the end. Right, so that's that's
one. I don't have to do anything other than weave this end in.
There we go, and that just goes through
a few of those stitches as well. So,
and it doesn't look particularly impressive like this. It looks actually quite messy.
Ooh look at that. What's the matter? Ooh we can't wear that, but open it up,
and all of a sudden you have that super cool that everyone's wearing twists in the
middle of your headband, like that. There you go. Very impressive and it's so simple as well.
You know, there's this great big mystery around it but it's not so much of a mystery.
Remember: we're doing the twist, but by doing the twist we have to give it a hug. (laughs)
I haven't got a mirror here so I hope that looks okay
Alright. So, I'm going to sit here and do the next one as well and it works just as well with the rib.
I won't go into it in quite so much depth but you can stretch it out a bit as you do
this if you like. Doesn't really matter either way. Remember we are folding it together without
a hassle, we're then shifting it to one side so it's overlapping, and then we're giving it a hug.
There we go. That looks equally as impressive with the ribbed. In fact I think it looks more. It's very
succinct and clean. So that's the twist with the ribbed band and I think the beauty of this is
if you want to, you can, it will be like you've got two headbands, so you've got the twist one
and if you want to wear that at the nape of your neck or even on the side
you've got a plain one as well. So that's your twist headbands.
There you go. Twist headbands for super chunky yarn and the kit will be in the shop if it's
not already in the shop, and like I said go and have a look in the description, either the link
to the kit will be there, and certainly, you know, if you're watching this next year
then the link to the kit will be there, but otherwise the wait list is there,
and if you want to get on the wait list then I will be able to send you an email
whenever i send emails out and of course whenever this is available too. This goes with
something very nice that I hope you're going to like, and that is beginners triangle shawl.
Here we go. The plan is that these will be in the shop as a bundle.
There you go. So you can wear your big shawl with the tassels on and the headband together, and
I'm sure I've got a photograph of me wearing these! It's warm in here. There we go. Do they go?
Yes that's your triangle shawl and you can see how well it matches because it's exactly the same yarn.
You can pick whichever colors you like, and indeed you could knit the triangle shawl all in one plain
colour if you like, doesn't have to be in a pair of colours. There you go! So that is your twist and hug
for the twist headband. Thanks so much for joining me today. Give me a thumbs up if you
like this video and indeed let me know in the comments if you and plan to knit up any of these
twist headbands. What colour are you're going to use? because we have some Christmas colours coming:
Forest Green, Lipstick Red and White Hot White but that
is something that you could also do if you fancy knitting up some headbands for Christmas,
then you can go and do that as well. I will see you again soon bye for now happy knitting! (Do the
twist like we did last summer. Ferris Bueller. Isn't that what he sings on the parade? Is it?