Hello and welcome to the BERNAT STITCH ALONG. I am your host Kristen and we are
finishing up our knitted basket today of course this stitch long is a six-week
project creating a beautiful Blanket Afghan and then there have been two
bonus projects so the first three weeks we created a pillow right now we are
doing the basket we're putting our finishing touch on the basket and we are
going to be making these really cool handles using I cords so let's just go
ahead jump into it and knit it at so last week we knit up the majority of our
basket but we still need to add the I-CORD HANDLES and that's why we made
these little eyelets we have four eyelets and we're going to create i-cord
handles so we begin with our beloved slip knot and using one of our double
pointed needles we're going to cast on three stitches and here's where the
I-CORD magic happens you slide those three stitches that you
just cast on all the way to the other side of your needle so right here from
the left we're going to slide it all the way to the other side our working yarn
is in the back and then we take our second double pointed needle and we knit
those three stitches from this side right here and again you slide to the
other side of your needle and you knit those three stitches again making sure
that you have that working yarn in the back and this is all there is to it
when I make I-cords after the first few rows
I definitely like pulling on my little yarn tail to sort of like pull
everything into place and get that I-cord started really nicely and keep
knitting until your eye cord measures 18 inches
in length then just cut your yarn and taking your tapestry needle you can
thread your yarn tail through those three little loops you don't need to do
like an actual bind off and just go ahead pull them in and weave in your
ends and you can cut them off and do this one more time because we're making
two handles each of them are 18 inches in length and then taking your basket in
those little eyelets go ahead and just pull your handles through those eyelets
and secure your handle either by weaving in your ends and knotting them whatever
you'd like to do to get them securely attached and then on the other side of
your basket you'll do the exact same thing to attach your second handle just
inserting the handle on one side of the eyelet and then through the other and
attaching the ends and oh it looks so great here is our finished basket these
handles are really nice and sturdy so even if you have a lot of heavy yarn
like I do it definitely holds up really nicely with these nice strong handles so
I hope you've had a lot of fun knitting up this basket as I've said before this
is my very first time knitting a basket it's such a cool design I love this new
yarn a jumbo yarn yay and I am going to be making many more baskets for friends
and family for the holidays I think it's a great gift idea
thank you again so much for participating in the BERNAT STITCH ALONG.
Happy knitting you guys.
BYE!