Hi and welcome to Knit With Hannah. Today we're knitting Christmas baubles. (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, and we are getting Christmassy today with Christmas baubles. Now, when it comes to
knitting for Christmas, I love knitting Christmas decorations. They are short to knit, they're really
cute when you finished and you can use them year after year after year after year. They feel like
an heirloom. I remember knitted decorations from when I was a child and I'll actually show you
some other ones that I knitted myself when I was a child now as well. There are all sorts
of designs that we just found in magazines and such like, but I have a new design for you. This is for
super chunky yarn with baubles, super chunky yarn with nine millimetre needles. I will show you the
exact materials you need in a moment. Let's get to it. Let's have a look at the demo, I can knit
all the way through this so you can watch all the way along if you like. I'll show you all the
little nuances of the pattern, but you can also download the pattern as well. There's a link in
the description below. So, let's see the tutorial now. I have my chunky yarn here. This is drops
Andes and on the ball band here it suggests we use nine millimetre needles so that's what I have here, nine millimetre needles,
they're all ready to go, and yes I am knitting on single pointed needles so that it's easier
to stuff with a filling once we finish knitting. I always find that easier and you'll have a much
more even stitch definition as well, because we're knitting in garter stitch. If you knit every
row it's going to look a lot better than if you are switching between knits and purls which you
would be doing if you were using double pointed or circular needles, but that's why as a couple
of reasons I'm using single pointed needles. What I'm going to do first is cast on seven stitches.
That is a purl stitch and then I'm going to use the cable cast on to cast on six more. You can
always go and have a look at my casting on playlist if you want to see more casting on
methods. So three, four, five, six, seven. Now we're going to knit the first row. It's going to be nice
and quick, just straight across there. And to create a spherical shape we now have to start increasing,
and we're going to do that by knitting one stitch, then we're going to make one which is pick up that loop in between
the two stitches there, put it on your needle and knit into the back part of that loop there. See
that there. I'm going to do this over and over again so I'll show you it multiple times, so that's
knit one, make one, knit one. I'm going to pick up that loop, move the left-hand needle into it,
into the front, and then knit into the back of that stitch. There we go. Four stitches, knit
one. Again we're going to knit into the back of that loop, so let's make one again and knit one.
We're going to make one again and knit one, make one again and knit one, and then one more time we're
going to find that loop, there it is, pick that up on the needle ,make one, and knit one. There are various ways you could increase
but I tested a couple and I found this one to be the neatest, so that is 13 stitches
on the needle: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. There we go. So now we're going to knit the next row.
And this following row isn't quite as even as the previous one: we were doing knit one,
make one, knit one make one all the way across, but this time we're going to knit
one, make one, knit two, make one, knit two, as if we're going to make one knit two five times... and then when you've
got two stitches on the needle at the end, we're going to do make one, knit one,
make one, knit one. There you go. That's all the increasing we need to do, so we've knitted a row, we've
increased we've knitted a row and we've increased, so that's four rows we've done
so far. So now from rows 5 to 12 we're going to knit. Just be aware as you start knitting into
these increased stitches it might be a bit tight but it's actually very easy to just
continue knitting. Especially with this sticky yarn, it feels a lot easier than it might to otherwise.
Here's 12 rows. iIf you're confused about how many rows you've knitted or you lose count while you're
going, just look at these rows of stitches. It's easier to count on super chunky yarn: you got Row
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and there's another one down there, that's row 6 and then you have to turn it over and count again: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. There you go. So that's your 12 rows. Now,
we're going to start decreasing, so with the sphere we want to increase and then decrease. We're going
to knit one, then knit two together, and repeat this all the way along the row: knit one,
knit two together, knit one, knit two together knit one, knit two together, knit one, knit two together, knit one, knit two
together, and the last two stitches we're just going to knit. So, count the stitches now, should have fourteen. Two,
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen. Perfect. Now we're going
to knit this next row, and now we're going to decrease again. This is very simple: knit two
together seven times: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. There you go. We now have 7 stitches on the needle. We're going to knit this last row.. but we don't cast off. What we
do here is take hold of scissors, give ourselves a nice long length and then we can stuff and
sew the bauble. Here we go. Move this thread, once it's on the needle, through these top stitches that sit
on the needle. Here we go. So I'm going to go through from this side, each stitch
in turn,. I'm doing two at a time. They're nice and easy, big to pick up with the needle. And now I can take
the knitting needle out. There we go. So we now have that sitting there very nicely. We can start sewing up
the side, and start stuffing it. I'm going to do this really quickly but there is an extra video
on my YouTube channel about sewing up a garter stitch seam.
With this bauble that's exactly what we need to do, so you can go and watch that if you like, and I will show you what I'm going to stuff this with
This is brilliant, I'm so pleased I found it. It is natural wool stuffing for crafts toys and cushions and safe, hypoallergenic I absolutely love this, I'm so please I found it.
Just take out a little bit at a time and that can start going in the bauble once I start stuffing.
OK, so I have left a cup of rows and I'm just
going to just start putting this stuffing in one small piece at a time.
okay that feels like a good sphere, a bauble shape and I can just sew up these last couple of stitches now
and then I can also just slip my needle through these top stitches where we cast on and the casting on
row. It's very convenient for just like the cast off row, just pulling those stitches together, a top.
So there we go that's just tightening that top bit up. And now we can make the hanging thread. Now the
hanging thread I'm making by twisting this yarn and...twist it. Just follow the way that this is
twisting anyway, and you just want to go with it and increase it so that it looks a lot tighter,
I'm just twisting that in my fingers over and over and over again. There we are. Now I'm going to double it up on
itself and you will see something fantastic happen. Look at that! It's created a cord, so it's doubled
up on itself and twisted itself together. So now I'm just going to put the needle, sewing needle
through that last bit of thread, and catch that up, in the ball there, and I can go through the
top the other end of this now as well. There we go. So that is holding the bauble up, and then I will
just sew these ends into the bauble and that is that. That is an knitted bauble stuffed with a
hanging thread. You can do the hanging thread in a different colour if you like in a very similar
way, but it seems very convenient to already have the thread already there. OK. There you go! One
Christmas bauble. Great! You now know how to knit these garter stitch Christmas baubles. Now go
over to my website and you can sign up for the download which is the full pattern. You can keep
that as long as you like, use it over and over again, and indeed, that also has information on
how you knit the stripy one too. I'll see you next week. We'll be talking about one skein knits.
This is how you can knit something with only one ball of yarn and that's really interesting
because if you are knitting things that you need for Christmas, then that's going to be the kind
of thing you want. It's going to be something that will only take you through one ball of of yarn
and you knit it really quickly, so we'll talk about that next week. OK. Bye for now. I'll see you again soon. Happy knitting. (outro)