[Kristen] - Today, we're knitting along a pet bandana.
As long as you know how to cast on
and make a knit stitch, you can make this.
It easily slips right onto your current pet's collar here.
We've got three different sizes, small, medium, and large.
You can choose to keep it solid and work with scrap yarn.
You could make it a gradient.
You could even stitch on your pet's initial
or their whole name
or even try this fun little paisley design
and I'll have the pictures to that on our blog.
We've got the free pattern
for you down at the description link below.
Let's get started and stitch this along together.
- Welcome to GoodKnit Kisses.
We're all about helping you stitch your love
and love your stitches.
First, this is Ranger. Don't you love him?
He is modeling our large size pet bandana
and he just loves his.
I made it out of wool too wick the moisture away
from him and it doesn't start absorbing.
So keep that in mind when you're choosing your yarn
that's just a cool property of a wool yarn.
But this is a great stash buster project.
You don't have to work with wool.
You can use acrylic or whatever.
I just wouldn't recommend a cotton yarn
because it's going to absorb the moisture too much.
And then you're just going to have a wet bandana
that can just irritate around their skin.
All right, so let's jump into more information.
Go click down the video description below to
get this pattern it's free on our blog
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which we'll have a link
in that description box or at the blog.
Now, again, this comes in the three sizes.
This is a fully captioned video.
So click on the CC button to turn that on.
The yarn I'm using is a bulky five weight yarn.
You can use a super bulky six or a chunky yarn.
I'm using 'Red Heart' and 'Italian Story Vera'.
And this is a color 'Notte',
which is that blue color in his bandana.
There's also a 'Pietra', which is a gray.
And 'Caffe', which is a brown kind of color.
I'm using a US nine or five and a half millimeters
circular needle.
You can also use a straight.
The size of needle I'm using is just a little bit smaller
than it's recommended with this yarn.
And that's because I want it like a nice, tighter stitch.
So it's not too loose.
I just want my gauge a little bit tighter.
A stitch marker is a good idea just to mark your right
and wrong sides.
Just for some of the instructions.
And then a tapestry needle.
If you want to measure which we do call
out some measurements rather than rows.
If you're using this, this one, you don't have to measure
but I left the measurements in there.
So you use a measuring tape.
And then, also if you want to use this technique,
slip stitch crochet, and do what I did here
to make an initial
or a name or this little paisley design
you're going to need a crochet hook for that.
And we do have a video on techniques for slip stitch crochet
on top of knitting down at the links below.
Let's look at sizes before we dive right in
just so you know what I'm referring to off camera.
I'm going to work on this small size
which is
almost seven inches wide
it's 6.75 inches by five and a half inches.
That is the width is across when the collar is on.
And then the length is from the middle
of the collar down to the point of the triangle here.
Okay. And then I've got the centimeters over here
if you need that.
The second size is a medium it's eight and a half inches
by six and a half inches.
And a large is nine inches by 7.25.
You can make these a little bit longer
and I'll show you that area in the pattern.
And you can also add on more stitches you can cast on
just make sure it's an odd number of stitches.
So you can make it wider or more narrow.
If you're going to make it smaller than the small,
if you have a teacup size animal,
then like one - an extra small.
I suggest using a smaller needle in a smaller yarn
and you can try these cast-ons
and see what that size looks like.
If you're working with scraps
it's still a good stash buster,
so that's a great way to test that out.
All right, let's begin.
There is a left and right handed video of this tutorial.
So click down in the video description below
to get the one that you need.
I'm going to refer to your working needle
with this hand and your non-working needle with this hand.
And instead of saying right and left.
All right, so if you want to use straights,
go ahead and grab those.
If you're using circular, I'll be using that.
It's the same technique either way.
I've got my stitch marker to mark my right side.
And if you don't want to see me -
how to make the long tail cast on,
if you know how to do that already
go ahead and cast on 27 stitches for the small,
33 for the medium,
and 37 for the large.
All right we're going to pull out
three times the width that we need
for our little pet bandana.
I got my tail.
I'm going to pull out about seven inches
and do that two more times.
And then we're going to make a slip knot.
The way I make mine is I wrap it over my finger twice
take the back loop slightly over in front of the front loop.
And then now take the new back loop up
and over the tip of your finger and you have your slipknot.
Then I'm going to put the tail part toward me
and the ball part towards the back,
put in my
needle.
Tighten that loop up, not too tight,
we don't want it to fall off,
but we don't want to be too loose-y, loose-y
So we're going to grab that
with our hand and split the yarn with our fingers.
We're going to take our needle and go up at the thumb
and then we're going to go around to the finger part
go down, and then we're going to bring that part
from the finger through the thumb.
So down at the thumb.
And then I'm going to put my finger on here
to make sure we got a good gauge here.
Give it a good spacing.
Let's do that again.
So we're going to go up at the thumb,
around and down at the finger,
and then down through the thumb again
and grab that and tighten it up.
Okay.
So the part for the thumb makes
that little twisted part in the front.
If you need a slower tutorial
we do have a beginner tutorials at down
at the video description link below
to really help you with that.
And also the knit stitch.
One more time up at the thumb,
down at the finger
down at the thumb
and let it go.
Go ahead and cast on 27 stitches for small,
33 for the medium,
and 37 for the large.
Pause your video and I will see you at that point.
See you soon.
All right, we are on row one
and we're going to go ahead and just simply knit across.
So insert your needle into that first stitch.
Yarn over,
pull through that loop
and drop off the old one.
Again, go into that first stitch,
yarn over,
pull up that loop
drop the old one off.
If you need a slower tutorial, please be sure and go down
in the description below to get that.
Knit across, once you've got a few on here,
you could go ahead and put your stitch marker on
to mark your right side.
I just like to go through that stitch right here.
This is the stitch from the cast on
that's that little purl bump you see.
And we're going to make that purl bump side our right side.
And you'll see why later.
I think it's a lot easier because we're going to be picking
up these stitches to make this open end
of the casing and it works out really well.
So go ahead and knit across all your stitches.
Pause your video, and I'll talk about the next step.
See you soon.
All right, so you've knit row one
and now we're going to be repeating that row
one until two and a half inches for the small,
three for the medium,
and three and a half inches for the large.
If you're working with the yarn I have
then you're going to work 20 rows for the small,
24 for the medium,
and 28 for the large and end on a wrong side row.
So that stitch marker is significant.
So go ahead and put that on there.
Work those stitches while pausing the video
and I'll meet you back up for casing for the collar.
See you soon.
So you've worked your knitted length.
This is about two and a half inches for my small,
three for the medium,
and three and a half for the large.
So now what we're doing is we're moving on to the row
we're going to fold up our knitting to the back
like this.
I'm on the right side where my stitch marker is.
We're going to fold it up like this and start
working across.
And we're basically hemming it as we go
instead of stitching it together
with a needle and thread, that's what we're doing.
So it makes this little casing, it's like
an open-ended pocket that slides your collar right through.
So let me show you the pattern.
So this is the casing for the collar at row two
insert knitwise through first stitch and pick
up first stitch from cast on pulling through as to knit.
So let's do that right now.
All right, I'm on my right side.
I'm going to fold up my knitting
and take my working yarn.
I'm going to move this tail out to the side.
I'm not going to worry about that right now.
And we're going to go to this very first stitch back here
and this is what we're going to work through.
So we're going to go through the first stitch on our needle
and then we're going to go through this first stitch
on our cast on edge, and then you just knit as normal.
You're going to knit through both.
So we're going to yarn over,
pull through this first one,
and I kind of just pull on the knitting
like this, to kind of get it through if it's a little tough.
And then you just pull it through that stitch
just like you're doing a regular knit stitch.
Okay.
Now we're going to go through the next one has to knit
but don't forget to pick up that very first stitch.
So let's look back here at our cast on.
The very next stitch is this one.
Okay.
So see how I just kind of pull it back
go through that stitch.
And then I take my yarn.
This is just like picking up stitches,
of you've ever picked one up from the neck
or something like that, doing the same thing.
We're just going to yarn over, pull through like that.
And then we're just picking that stitch up
and then pulling it through
to make a stitch over here
and then pulling it off.
So you've basically worked this
as a little tube here and you're going to keep going across.
So you just continue on the next stitch,
go through the next stitch knitwise,
let's take out this stitch marker so you can really see it.
And then I'm going to pull back my knitting
and you can see that my next stitch is this one here.
And then we're going to knit that,
pull through
to make a stitch.
And then we just pull that right through
that very first stitch.
All right.
So continue knitting and picking up stitches as you go.
Okay. Pull it back and just study it.
You can see
these are the nice big stitches across the front.
And if you're on the back
they were these little purl bumps stitches.
So ignore the ones in the back
and just go through the looser ones upfront.
If you're not sure, just kind of move your needle across
and look at them this way and backwards
and kind of fall back until you get to the very next one.
See there's that loose one,
go ahead and pick that up
and then pull through to make a knit stitch.
All right.
Continue all the way.
And I'll meet you at the very last one.
See you in a moment.
All right, I've got my last stitch here and
I picked up what was mostly the last loose stitch,
on my cast on.
But there is one more and I've got one more stitch here.
So we're going to go through that
and find, oops, that's easy to do,
just put that right back in,
hold it with my thumb here.
I'm going to find this very last stitch here
right on that edge.
Make sure I'm going through all the yarn
and not splitting it, which I keep doing.
There we go.
(laughs)
It's a little bit tighter here.
Just going to yarn over and pull through
use my thumb, and you can see my needle kept dropping off
but that's okay,
'cause it's already inserted through this stitch correctly.
And so you can just knit it right over.
And I love that it's actually nice and tight.
'Cause I want this to be a nice and secure
spot here for this casing.
Okay. I went ahead, put my stitch marker on
so you can see we were on our right side.
And when we turn over, we're on the wrong side.
And really from this point on, it doesn't matter right
or wrong side,
but I just did that for a reference for you.
So the next row,
row three,
we're going to knit across.
So go ahead and knit across.
Pause your video and I'll meet you back up
for the next step.
We'll see you soon.
Row three, you're going to be repeating to get a length
and then we're going to start decreases.
So you're going to work at five rows for the small size
and six rows for both the medium and the large.
If you do want your length
from the middle of the collar area down to the point
if you want that area longer
then you just knit more rows, as many as you'd like.
And then when you stop, it's going to be
at this point here and then you start your decreases.
So right now we're working with
this little middle section here.
And again, it doesn't matter if you're on the right
or wrong side, it's just going to be knitting length.
So go ahead and knit five more times for small,
and then six times for the medium and large.
Pause your video and I will see you at the decrease area.
See you soon.
(knitting needles clicking together)
You've knit your length and
now we're just going to start our decrease row.
And row four is going to be repeated through the end
of the pattern until you get to three stitches left.
So this is what you're going to do.
You're going to knit the first stitch.
Then we're going to knit two together.
So you go into the second stitch, knitwise,
like you're going to knit,
but go through both stitches,
yarn over,
and pull up a loop
that new stitch,
drop the old off
and then knit to the end of the row.
That's it.
So you're just decreasing by one
at the beginning of each row.
So I'll repeat that in just a moment.
Go ahead and knit through.
Pause your video if you need.
And I'll repeat that again, slower for those who need it.
(knitting needles clicking together)
- Okay, we're going to repeat that row.
Knit the first stitch.
Knit two together.
Go into the second stitch,
all the way through the first stitch.
Okay.
Yarn over
and pull through both loops
just like that.
And then let them fall off.
Knit to the end.
Go ahead and repeat that row
until you only have three stitches left
and we'll see you at that point.
See you soon.
- All right, we have three stitches left on our needles
and we want to do a center double decrease.
So we're going to be slipping these first two stitches.
It's slip two, knit one, pass the two slip stitches over.
So this is how you do that.
You're going to go in as
if you were going to knit both two stitches together
except then you just slide off your non-working needle,
so it slips them over, knitwise, over here.
And so the first stitch that's on there is your center one
and then this will make everything line up
really nice to a point.
So then we're going to knit into the second stitch.
Okay.
And then we're going to slip
these two - or pass these two stitches over.
So
one
and two
and then you're left with this center stitch.
So you just pull on it
go ahead and cut
your yarn,
pull that out.
And now you have a nice, pretty point
on your bandana and you can just take your
tapestry needle
and weave in the tail.
So I have a video on how to weave in tails
and you can click down at that link below
or in the cards here
but you can just weave it in.
Into either side, this happens to be the wrong side,
that's the right side.
It doesn't really matter.
But notice that the only difference really here is
this right side looks kind of smooth
and this side has a little bitty line on it.
It doesn't really matter.
I usually weave in my tail into what's going to be the back.
So I just kind of go up right through here
pull that through
and go on up
until I can get into the garter stitch.
And then I'm just going to,
see go up one more row here,
I'm going to go around this little umbrella sort
of stitch here, go down through that little sort of smile
and then come down to this other row down here
through this little umbrella
pull through
and go around this little smile area
and come up
and go back up through that little smile here
like that
and then go around again.
Well, that's how I do it.
If you want a slower tutorial again, you can go click
on that link for weaving in your tails and garter stitch.
And once you have this in here really well then
I just suggest that you go back over a few stitches
and maybe kind of go through one and split the yarn.
And then you can trim that off.
Use the same technique on this part up here.
Just make sure that you're not stitching
through your casing.
You're only working on one side of it
or go down into this part here.
And you are done.
I can't wait to see your pet bandana.
Please be sure and use #petbandana
on Instagram and tag me @GoodKnitKisses.
I would love to see yours.
Give me a comment down below,
if you want to send me the link or just
comment and tell me which collar you made.
I would love to know.
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