- [Kristen] Grandma's are the best!
And Grandma's Favorite Dishcloth pattern is the best.
We're gonna make this needle-knit dishcloth.
This is actually the last one that my grandma was making.
We actually call her Mamaw.
So today I'm going to teach you
how to make this beginner pattern.
It's great and scrubbable for your own dishes.
Let's get started.
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For the materials,
you're going to need a number-four cotton.
This is Lily Sugar 'n Cream in white,
or I'm gonna use Bernat Handicrafter Twists.
This is also a cotton yarn.
It's a much bigger ball,
and you can get several dishcloths out of it.
You're also going to need some needles.
You can use straight or circular.
I like to use these interchangeable with the cord,
and then if I have to pause my knitting,
I can just slide it to the middle.
I'm using Knitter's Pride Dreamz,
and it's a smooth birch.
And then also I recommend a metal needle
so that the yarn slides smoothly.
If you use a bamboo,
it can catch a bit on the yarn, on a cotton yarn,
and could be a little frustrating
if you're a beginner knitter.
So you want to get something
that is going to be smoother and easier for you to use.
All right, let's grab our supplies, and we'll begin.
This video is for the very beginner.
So I'm going to show you how to make a slip knot,
cast on a couple of stitches, make a knit stitch.
We're going to increase,
which is doing a yarn over,
and then we're also going to decrease,
which is knit two together.
And then we'll also have a knit three together in the end.
If I go too slow for you,
just use the speed control buttons
to go a little bit faster,
and if you need to slow me down,
hit the controls to make it go slower.
All right, I like to take my tail, wrap it around my finger.
Leave about nine inches or so.
So we'll wrap it around our finger twice.
One, two.
We're going to take that back loop over the front loop,
just slightly.
And then pick up the,
now the new back loop,
and lift it up and over the tip of your finger.
And that's going to make your slip knot.
Take your tail
and twist this around to where the tail is towards you,
and what's belonging to the ball of the yarn is at the back.
Slip it into your needle,
and just tighten it up.
Now that counts as one stitch.
That's your slip knot.
So I'm just gonna grab this tail
and the ball yarn right here in my hand like this,
and then with our finger and our thumb,
we're just gonna have a split this yarn like this,
and pull back.
Looks like a little slingshot.
We're gonna scoop up at the thumb,
and then we're gonna go down at the finger,
and then we're gonna go back over to the thumb,
come down, and let go of the thumb,
and pull on that yarn.
And now we have two stitches.
One more time only.
So pull back.
Go up at the thumb,
over to the finger and down,
and then back to the thumb, down.
Let it go at the thumb, and pull it.
And you got three stitches on your needle.
Now you're gonna take it and turn it.
Pick up your other needle.
We're gonna knit all three of these stitches.
Make sure you're knitting with the ball of yarn
and not the tail.
So I'm gonna hold my tail back here,
so it's out of the way.
Then we're gonna go right into this very first stitch,
and we're gonna go into what I call
the front leg of this stitch,
right inside here between the first and second stitch.
Go right in.
Take your ball of yarn, tail here,
wrap it around.
Okay.
So we're going around the needle that you stuck through,
and then we're just basically pulling this loop
all the way through.
So you're just gonna,
I like to push it
against this needle here
and drag it so it scoops up all that yarn.
And now you see that stitch here.
And now you can just slide off that old stitch
because you've actually made a new one right here.
That's it.
That's the knit stitch.
So we're gonna do that to these other ones.
Go into this one.
Use your fingers to guide you so they don't fall off.
Tighten up that first stitch there,
and we're gonna yarn over again.
It doesn't matter how you hold it over here.
You can just wrap around like that to yarn over,
and then pull it on through,
drop that other stitch,
ready for the next one.
Insert in,
yarn over,
pull through.
And that's three knit stitches.
Turn it over,
and now we're going to start our row one.
And so we just did a foundation row,
but row one is knit two.
So we're gonna knit one
and two.
Okay.
And then now we're going to yarn over
without putting it through here.
We're just making a stitch on here,
just wrapping it around,
all the way around,
and then I want to stick it in this last stitch here
and yarn over and pull through.
So we created a knit stitch here.
So now we have four stitches on your needle.
Turn it over, and we'll do row two.
You just repeat row two
until we have the right amount of stitches on our needle.
So, it's the same thing as row one.
Really what you're doing is you're just knitting two.
And knit two.
And you're knitting that really loose stitch,
which was a yarn over.
And then this is where you're gonna make another yarn over.
So you always knit two when you start.
We're gonna make an increase with the yarn over,
and then knit to the end of the row.
And you should have one more stitch, which is five stitches.
Turn that around,
and keep knitting and increasing every row
until you get 48 stitches,
or you can make it to the width that you want.
Just do it till you have an even number of stitches.
All right, continue knitting.
Pause your video.
See you then!
So we've got 48 stitches on our needles,
and now we are ready to decrease.
Okay.
So, in this case we are working on row three.
We're going to knit one,
and then we're going to knit two together.
It's also called K2Tog.
So, the t-o-g is just together.
So we've got one stitch, two stitch.
We're just gonna go to the second stitch
and insert just like we normally do,
except you also pick up that first stitch.
So I'm working the tip of my needle all the way through,
okay, till it comes out the other side,
and just yarn over as usual, and then pull it on through.
Okay.
Just grab both of those,
let it fall,
and now we're going to do a yarn over.
So we just decreased,
and now we increased again.
But in order to get a decrease in our total stitch count,
we're going to decrease one more time.
So adding that yarn over again
makes this a lacy eyelet opening here.
Okay.
So we're gonna knit these two stitches together.
Go right through both of them.
Okay.
Yarn over,
and then pull it through.
All right, and then this just finishes as before.
You just knit to the end of the row.
Okay.
So you're just gonna repeat row three
until five stitches remain.
Go ahead and continue knitting.
Pause your video, and I'll meet you at that point.
See you soon.
We're at five stitches left.
You are just going to knit one,
knit two together as before.
Okay.
And you're picking up that yarn over.
I find it's a little tight at the end.
And then just repeat that again.
Another knit two together.
And you got three stitches left.
Turn that over,
and now we're going to knit three together.
And it's just like the knit two together,
except you got to get through all of those stitches there.
So it might take you just a moment with this cotton yarn.
I know, I got that really simply,
but (laughs) sometimes I struggle.
So I just got it through all three.
I'm at the very tip here.
I'm just being very controlled about it.
And go right over the tip
'cause all you need to do is wrap around the tip.
And then pull it through,
all the way through.
No, let's do it again.
I'm gonna say that just you can see that I struggle with it.
So pull it right on through.
There we go.
It helps to really push that tip against the other needle.
Get all that yarn.
Let it fall off.
Okay.
I'm just gonna turn it around.
And then I'm actually going to
stick the needle through there one more time,
and yarn over,
and I'm gonna pull through a long loop,
and I'll end up pulling this loop all the way through.
Just take my scissors and cut it,
and then just continue pulling.
And we're just gonna fasten that off by tightening it up.
Okay.
And then just use your tapestry needle,
and weave in your stitches.
I have a video for how to do that in garter stitch.
So I'll put the link either up here or down below or both.
So you'll just weave this in,
get past all these yarn overs,
and put it in right here, and kind of weave it in here,
and it will disappear,
and then you have the one from the very beginning.
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