Hi, and welcome to Knit With Hannah. I'm Hannah. I'm here today to give you some suggestions about
what you can knit if you are a beginner knitter. (Intro) Hi. Welcome to Knit With Hannah. I'm Hannah. I'm
here with knitting natter to help you learn to knit the easy way. Yes, what can you knit if you are
beginner knitter? It can be a difficult question because there are so many options out there, so
I'm going to help you just figure a few things out today. You'll have lots of choices but more
focused choices by the time we reached the end of the video. If you are new here go and have a
look at some more of my beginner knitter videos. I have a whole playlist full of videos for beginner
knitters. You can hit the subscribe button as well because I'm doing all sorts of videos every
week to help you learn to knit more easily, and step-by-step. Let's get down to it then Let's think
about knitting when you're a beginner, because you just sit there and you know how to put stitches on
the needles. Great job. You're casting on, and then you think "oh what can I actually knit?" There are
so many options. Just put a few stitches on your needles and start knitting. That is your first
step because you're going to need to practice the knit stitch. You may find it it's a bit loose, you
may have an odd number of stitches that may not quite concur with how many you started with. As
you go through your project, you really do need to practice the knit stitch so don't put any pressure
on yourself and say "first time I'm knitting I'm going to knit a jumper," because that jumper that
you start to knit may be really loose and quite uneven at the beginning and then you think "by
the time I've knitted the back and the front and I've got to the sleeves it looks completely different."
So the ideal option if you're a beginner knitter is to start small, so in each project you'll see an
improvement, a more even tension, clearer stitches, and you'll really enjoy the fact that when you
do get to knit a jumper, then you can see a more even tension and neater stitch, all the
way through it, not just a couple of places. Putting stitches on the needles - you can start by knitting
a coaster. You can knit a bookmark. You can make a smartphone case. You can knit a small purse. You
could knit a mini tassel scarf. That's one of my favorite projects for beginner knitters. You can
see the pattern on my pattern shop. It is just basically stitches on the needles with a tassel
at each end. If, like I did, you choose stripy yarn when you knit this, there's the incentive to go
through every row and say "I've reached the next colour, I've reached the next colour." Just put some
stitches on the needle and start knitting. You'll come up with some ideas because if you'll just
focus with the knit stitch, you're kind of drawing that focus in and when, the more restricted you
are, the more creative you can be with what you end up knitting. So once you have a knit stitch
down you can start thinking about using the purl stitch, and the purl stitch gives you other options. It
just lets you create texture in the knitting, it lets you create elastic edges to hats. But
first of all you want to start off knitting purl stitch alongside the knit stitch. Again, you could
create a purse or a smartphone case. You can even create a couple of squares, sew the sides together,
and you'll have some fingerless mitts. It can be that simple. Have great fun with it, really enjoy
it, and make lots of items that you can see dotted around the house. Think about knitting a set of
six coasters, so that whenever your friends come around you're all using them with your cups of
tea! That kind of thing can be really great fun and you'll say "I needed them and I'm using them",
and then you've got your bookmarks. Maybe you take a book to work every day and you've got
that bookmark and you go "I needed this! "I'm using it. I'm using it every day," and you'll love that fact,
and yes, those items will get larger and larger and you'll really love it when you can start
knitting more things. OK thank you for joining me today. I hope that's been helpful. Give me a
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me. OK, thanks so much for joining me. I will see you again soon. Bye for now. Happy knitting.
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