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Hi and welcome to-Hi welcome to Knit With Hannah hi and welcome to Knit With
Hannah. I'm Hannah I'm Hannah I'm Hannah I'm Hannah I'm Hannah I'm Hannah. I'm here with
knitting natter to help you learn to knit the easy way. I've got really dirty glasses
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. See, I got that one right!
Well I hope you've enjoyed those bloopers to start with. There will be more bloopers coming up
and this is all about 2021 - what we've done here on YouTube in 2021. We started the year off with
Lockdown Lives. Do you remember that far back? No, we had eight live videos in January and February
and that was great fun. It was every Friday morning, let's just knit together and see what
happens. So we did, and it was a really great way of connecting through another lockdown in the
UK, but it really kept us going and it drove us straight into the baby blanket knit-a-long as well.
That was brilliant. I absolutely love that. It was the first time I've done a knit-a-long for
three-and a half years. Yeah, three and a half years since i've done the knit-a-long so it was definitely
worth it. I absolutely loved it and there will be more knit-a-longs coming up definitely.
Now, what I've got for you today is just to take a look at, not just let's just look at the year.
What were the top five videos in 2021? Not just all of the videos that I've ever released but
the top five videos that I've released in 2021 and have they continued to be
watched over and over and over again? As I go through these top five videos from this year
you may realize that there's some kind of a theme going on. I had no idea this was going to happen.
Talking to my sister last Christmas and I said "what kind of videos do you watch on YouTube?"
and she told me one thing, and I said "okay I'll make a couple of videos like that," and this is
what you'll see in the top five. Number five on the list is "What to knit with cotton yarn." You
absolutely love this. I've done quite a few what to knit videos before so this has been a really
interesting one and a lot of people have asked me this kind of thing in the YouTube comments as well
and i've been able to direct them to this video so it's been a really useful resource
to use over and over again. Number four is "Seven tips for knitting with cotton yarn". Seven tips for
knitting with cotton yarn was released with the baby blankets and what to knit with cotton yarn
was released with the home kits in the summer this year. That was with the shower scrubbie when
we did that for a knit-a-long. I wanted to add cotton yarn into the knitting kit shop this year
and of course home knits and baby knits are perfect uses for cotton yarn. It's really given a boost
to the knitting kit shop and of course to the videos here on YouTube as well. Number three was
actually released last January so it's almost a year old and it's "10 tips for beginner knitters".
I knew there were a lot of these videos out there but when I watch tips videos i think
"oh I wonder if someone else has got a different tip to the ones that they have. I thought, well,
these are my 10 tips for beginner knitters. There are going to be other tips in other 10 tips videos
so I might as well give you my 10 tips and it was well received being that it's number
three, it's still being watched. It's just really useful to just grab lots of information from lots
of different places. Watching that kind of video can just give you a few markers and a few ideas
on what you might be doing right, what you might be doing wrong, and it will open up the world of
knitting jargon to you in a very short space of time as well, So that's another tips video. And
one more tips video at number two. This was also a beginner's video: "Five tips for choosing knitting
patterns for beginners." This is something that I've wanted to do for a while and I was thinking about
doing a reading knitting patterns for beginners as well. If you want to find out more about reading
knitting patterns then you can go straight to a couple of my courses. You can go to "The
Masterful Knitter" and "Intuitive Knitter" as well. They will tell you more about reading patterns.
This is choosing knitting patterns because if you pick up the wrong pattern and you try to knit it
then you could really be put off what you're finally knitting. So the very first step if you are
saying "I actually want to use a knitting pattern now", picking the right pattern can be a really,
really big help and it can really motivate you to keep knitting, so it was definitely well worth
while making that video. I'm really glad I did and that it reached so many people as well. It actually
went viral, well, viral in the form of 12,000 views in about five days. Was not expecting that!
Yeah, not viral as in three hundred thousand views or two million views,
but that was a lot for one of my videos in the first week. That was a bit of a shock, and it's
still being watched. It's definitely not being dropped, it's still being watched, so yeah, I'm,
I'm really glad that beginner knitters are finding that and finding it useful still.
Number one is another beginner's video. It was January or February last year that I made this and
I made this to sit next to a previous video that I'd made. Originally I'd made one showing you how
you start a new row with single pointed needles, double pointed needles and with circular needles,
and this one I was saying "right, you've got your needles, you've got your stitches on your needle.
Let's do the first stitch, and the second stitch, and the third stitch, and move across the row," so
that's basically what that newer video is, and if you ever want to find out how you start a new
row with double pointed needles or with circular needles or if you've never actually used single
pointed needles either then go and have a look at the original video. But this is number one.
This is "How to start a new row in knitting" and it's been the most watched video of this year.
So, yes, that theme, and that was suggested by my sister, was the tips videos. She said "I constantly
look up things like 10 tips for decluttering your kitchen", and all the tips videos comes up, so, yeah I
had never thought of making those. I thought it was really putting me in a box. I'm only going to
get people who want to look at tips videos, but actually it's grabbed a lot of people and
it means that I've reached a lot of knitters and I think that's the important point when i make these
videos on youtube is that I want to help knitters. My whole idea of making this knitting business was
to just share what I've learned in my knitting and it appears those tips videos are doing just that!
Let me know in the comments below which was your favourite video
that I've released this year, or even your top three, because, yeah, apart from the two weeks
when I wasn't well a few weeks ago and then I'd actually decided to take last week off, it's been
50 videos this year not including the lives, so that's a lot of videos. Which one was your favourite?
And that was the postman! Right. Let's start again. Are we ready to go? Yes, yes, yes...
Hi.
(blows raspberry) We are ticking... We are ticking motivate.. blah blah blah blah blah
I used to do on cruise, er, encrouse, encaus, encaustic
(coughs)
OK do stick around till the end of the video because there's lots more bloopers coming up.
Yeah I've made some mistakes this year, but that's what happens when you're filming.
It's a funny old game and I keep them when I see something really going strangely on a video
that I'm editing. I just go "OK let's just stick that in a bloopers reel", so it's all ready to go.
I will be back next week for New Year videos. We'll be talking about betwixtmas. Knitting in between
Christmas and New Year and what you want to knit in 2022, so, yeah, join me for that. I thought "let's
just have a a bit of fun together next week." There will be short videos so you don't have to find
a long, long time. You could just dip in and out, and like i said go back and watch all sorts of
things from this year as well. If you need anything to watch while you're knitting then you can go
and watch one of the live videos from last year too. There are lots of them. I did a lot more than
I thought I would and I imagined I would so of course i also want to say have a great Christmas
if you're celebrating Christmas. If you're not celebrating Christmas and it's going to be
really really quiet where you are because everyone else is, then have a great weekend and have a great
couple of weeks. I will see you next week. Thank you so much for joining me today. I'll see you
again soon. Bye for now. Happy knitting.
because that's obviously not something we want there
here we are that's all sorted. That was three knots on top of one another
That was fun. OK. Yes, look at those with an eagle eye and say "that looks like a
beginner's, that looks like a really difficult knitting video looks like a really knitting...
Huh! Sustainability factor to it as well. If you go and look at women against...
There's...
There's less bags too
Smile. Carry on.
For a bit, that's about a third of it, two sevenths of it... So if you're knitting for the summer as well (blows raspberry)
I'll see you again soon. Bye for now. Happy knitting.
I'll see you next week. Bye for now. Happy knitting.
Bye for now. Happy knitting. Bye for now. Happy knitting.
thanks so much for joining me today. I'll see you again soon. Bye for now. Happy knitting.