- I would have to go all the way back to there?
- Uh-huh
- Oh, no.
(theme music playing)
- Hey, and welcome to Nailed It!
This is a little segment where we try
all those picture perfect things off the internet,
and just show you what it's like
when a real person tries it.
- The keyword is try.
- Here's the thing.
From now on, we are getting it right.
Okay?
If we have to bring in professionals,
we are going to get it right, and we're going to show you
exactly how to do it.
- That's actually more like what my mom said to me.
It was like, "You can try as hard as you want to,
"but if you get it wrong, you're a disappointment."
- Several of you have sent us a request
to try arm knitting a blanket.
- What?
- Arm knitting is like knitting, but with arms.
You should know, we have no knitting experience.
- Zero.
- So, my me-maw knits stuff all the time
and sends it to us.
I'm hoping that there's some sort of genetic inspiration.
What you need are giant yarn, which I got off Amazon,
and I will put the link in our...blah.
First thing:
So this your tail end, according to the internet,
and we're going to measure it.
- Why is mine so much bigger than yours?
- So, you measure at 15 to 20 arm lengths,
and your arm lengths are going
to be much different than mine.
True, but like here?
Yeah.
1...
How many, 15?
- Now, we're doing a slip knot.
See, like this? To make a slip knot.
- Like this?
- I think.
- Okay, look.
We're knitting. We've knitted!
- We've knitted! Okay.
- Oh wait, is the past of knitting knitted or knit?
- Okay, now loop it onto your arm.
Your fingers are going to go in between these two strands.
Forefinger, like here, and your thumb here.
And you grab them both.
And then you pull the slip knot side down.
Grab this.
I think I'm doing it.
Nope.
- I'm afraid to let go.
I think I did it.
I might be a better knitter than you!
- [Offscreen Female voice] It's really simple
once you get it.
- Well, look at hers.
It looks all pretty, and this looks like a dumpster file.
- This looks like I've been bandaged up.
This is like a tourniquet.
Okay, I'm gonna call Leah.
This is insane.
- Good.
- I'm twisting around my hand.
And then, I'm going to slip this side through
like that to just make a little...
So then, from what I understand, you're going to put
your hand through the hole,
and you're just going to pull it out.
- Oh this is easier than...
- [Penn] The way she did that before was insane.
- Okay, so, and then, hold on...
- And so, it ends up looking a little like a braid.
- Are they supposed to be the same size?
- Yeah, you wanna try to make them the same size
each time you pull it through.
Okay.
- [Penn] Alright, so this is the big part.
We've got it this way.
- [Leah] Got a length.
- [Penn] Alright now, we're going to have to square this.
Right?
- [Leah] Right.
So, now it's time to hit up,
but you want to try to make your loops,
from what I understand,
the same as you were doing over here.
I'm going to reach through the circle, right here,
and I'm going to pull this loop,
to make it the same as that.
- [Penn] It's that top bit that you're reaching through,
right?
So, not here, not here, but right there.
- [Leah] The one in the middle.
- [Penn] Okay, our expert now is on her 3rd row.
This looks really good, hunny.
- Now, this is the loop you're gonna pull through.
So, you're gonna pull it that way.
- [Penn] So, pull through this same loop.
Pull it through itself for this first one.
- Update: I am going to be creating a line
or Pottery Barn very soon, is the update.
- [Penn] Yours is winning in volume.
- I know, I went big because we're big people.
- [Penn] Leah went good.
- Leah went
(laughing)
- [Penn] That looks really nice.
That is gorge.
- Leah did the same size loops.
So, all these loops are the same size throughout,
- [Leah] I missed a loop.
- Huh, see...
- [Leah] Uh-oh
- What?
- But, this is the nice thing about knitting.
- [Kim] Oh, you just go back if you messed up.
- [Penn] Okay, is everyone watching this?
You just yank it out.
- Yank it out.
- [Penn] Ruby, how you doing?
You good?
- [Kim] Ruby wants to knit.
- [Penn] When I film you, you don't bark.
- Oh, no
- [Penn] What just happened?
- I just realized I didn't...I have one of these things.
- [Penn] What? At the end?
- Yeah, but I would have to go all the way back to there?
- [Leah] Uh-huh
It's not like a messed up painting.
You just redo it.
- [Penn] I have a solution. Right?
So, these are the two ones?
Kind of makes a nice dress.
(laughing)
- [Leah] Pull it out, girl. Pull it out.
- [Penn] You're not. You're not. This is going
to be painful.
- I am.
- Doesn't that feel good?
- No, it doesn't.
It does not feel good.
Here, to the next one.
- Yep.
- [Penn] Alright so, guys, we'll check in in about
- 4 days
- [Penn] an hour.
It's looking great over there.
- Alright, so I'm about to finish it off.
I'm gonna put these two loops together
- [Kim] Two loops together.
- [Leah] And then, I'm going to pull this through.
And this becomes my second.
Two loops together.
Now, I have to pull the end through.
Tie it off.
- You can snip this a little bit,
and I'm gonna weave this through here
so that there isn't an end.
- [Kim] Okay, you just legit weave it through.
- [Leah] Legit, weave it through.
That was actually the beginning.
- Oh, see.
- So, that's your knitted side, and your patterned side.
- [Penn] One hour later!
- Okay, so now I'm doing the cast off thing.
So, do two loops.
All I know is that I weave it back.
- [Penn] You didn't have enough to weave it back.
- Yeah I do.
And made blanket!
- [Leah] It's nice.
- Is it good?
Oh, there's a lot of holes in it.
Oh, no.
- [Penn] I didn't want to say anything, but...
- [Kim] Oh my gosh.
Hey, solution.
It is now a poncho!
So, what I've learned is I can just take this all apart
and do it again.
So, this is what it's supposed to look like.
(child blowing trumpet)
- Okay, I promised in these versions of Nailed It,
I was actually going to nail it and get it right.
So, I've had some time to think
about my disappointing performance in the blanket,
and I'm going to try it one more time.
(music playing)
- Okay, I just finished my second try at this hand knitting.
We did abandon arm knitting.
Hand knitting.
I'm going to pick it up.
I cast it off.
And I'm gonna pick it up to see if there's any holes.
I don't think there are.
It took me 2 hours.
- [Penn] Wow!
- It's perfect, right?
- [Penn] It's very, very good.
- I mean, our children...
It's going to be like Sound of Music.
They're all going to have knitted clothes.
I am so proud of myself
(Hallelujah song playing)