- [Kristen] Today were gonna make easy
loom knit flower earrings.
Aren't these cute?
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Welcome to GoodKnit Kisses.
We're all about helping you stitch your love
and love your stitches.
I saw Marly Bird at the Creativation event in January
and grabbed a sample of her knew Chic Sheep yarn,
and I love it.
It inspired me to make a loom knit flower based upon
the flower bracelet I had made before and turn it into
a beautiful pair of earrings.
So the Chic Sheep yarn by Marly Bird is 100% Merino wool,
and it's brought to you by people we love at at Red Heart.
So this pattern is written out in longhand on my website,
but I am shortening it down for you and making a video
just for you, and I wanna go over the supplies
you're gonna need.
You're gonna need about four or five yards of the Red Heart
Chic Sheep yarn in your favorite color, you're gonna need
a couple of earring blanks, and you're not gonna need any
extra tools for earrings or anything.
I'm gonna make it simple for you today.
You also need your loom hook, a tapestry needle,
and some scissors.
Now, you might need a little bit of a threader to get your
yarn through here, or you can kind of squeeze it on through
as I was able to do.
Alright, let's jump right in!
To get your yarn and the pattern, click on the link
in the description below.
Alright, if you have not loom knit before or knit before,
this is the perfect project to get you started.
I'm gonna teach you a couple of terms as we go.
We are going to cast on, which is getting that yarn
on the loom, but to start we're gonna make a slipknot.
The way I make one is twist it around my finger two times,
and take the back loop over the front loop, and then one
more time, and then we make that little slipknot,
and now I'm going to put it onto our little starter peg
or anchor peg and tighten it up.
Okay, and this is just gonna hold it there, and then
that way you don't get that little knot in your work,
especially on a small project like this.
Alright, we are going to wrap around the pegs
in an E-wrap fashion.
Now, what it is doing...
We're gonna go counterclockwise around the loom,
and I'm gonna go clockwise around the actual peg.
So I'm going in between the first and the last peg to the
back, go around that first peg and back, and then it
moves me on to my next peg, and so this is two, three,
and we're just gonna keep going around, and the reason why
it's called an E is it kind of resembles a cursive E,
if you've ever written a cursive E.
That's what it looks like.
So we're gonna go around until we get to that first peg,
and then we're gonna do it one more time,
and in this step, it's okay to be tight.
It's not always okay to be tight in loom knitting,
but in this case, it is.
This is gonna be a very loopy cast on, so it is going to be
a little loose, and so we can be tighter if we want to.
Just gonna go ahead and lift these loops from the bottom
over the top, and what that does is it causes it
to knit for you.
This stitch is actually being made is knit through the back
loop or twisted knit stitch, but it's considered an E-wrap
when we're talking about it on the loom.
Now that it's already cast on, you can go ahead and get rid
of this anchor peg, or this anchor yarn.
Just pop that right off and let it fall, or you can take it
off later, and then push all of your stitches
down on your pegs.
You don't have to push it all the way down to the end.
And then we're gonna go around one more time
on this pattern.
It's a very short one.
We're gonna go all the way around our loom, and then go
between the first and last peg, and then pull it back,
and you can hold it from the inside, and it just keeps it
in place while you're gonna knit over.
Again, this stitch right here is called the flat knit.
It makes it a nice V-stitch, just like a traditional knit,
except it's much tighter, and in this case, we wanna get it
nice and tight.
So this is our row 1, or round 1,
and unlike most of the loom knit patterns, in this case
I'm actually gonna have you knit one more peg.
So I'm gonna go back to the first peg, and we're gonna
push that down, and do one more flat knit, and that's it.
We're gonna push these all down again, and we're gonna do
what's called the gathered bind off.
It's like a drawstring bind off, just like in clothing
if you've got a little drawstring.
We're gonna go around, just as we did before, and then we're
gonna go around one and a half times, so when it gets around
halfway back here, we're just gonna use our scissors
and cut that yarn.
Alright, now you can let it fall, and we're gonna be
going back up to where the second peg is.
So this is the first and we're going to the second peg.
Put our yarn down below.
This is called our working yarn, this yarn that you're
working from the ball or that cut long tail there.
We're gonna take our loom hook and go down through this
first stitch here, well, on the second peg, and then pull up
that working yarn, and then I'm gonna pull it
all the way through, okay?
And now I'm gonna go down through the next one and pull
it up, and down through the next one and pull it up.
Now, you can do this with the tapestry needle, but I find it
much easier to use this loom hook.
So we're just going all the way around.
Be sure and pause your video as you need.
I am going a little bit faster here, so use those pause
and rewind tools, and also the speed button
if you need something slower.
There are other tutorials on this channel, and you can
make those slower and watch those beginner videos
for all these different techniques.
Okay, so we are doing a gathered bind off.
It just means that you're taking it off the loom.
And then we're gonna go down to this first peg,
because remember, we started on number two,
and we're gonna pull that on through.
That makes it go through all of the stitches.
I'm gonna go through one more time on peg two,
and that way we've got this one in here twice,
and it's definitely gonna be closing up in a loop.
Now, I like to hold onto the tail here as I take it off.
I'm gonna go ahead and take it off this peg, and I'm gonna
go in the opposite direction this time, and as I start
taking off a few of these pegs here, I'm gonna go ahead
and start pulling closed my drawstring, that way when I get
to the end, when I pull this together, it won't try
and go in on itself.
I want it to go in around when I pull
this drawstring through.
I don't wanna trap in the wrong part.
So go ahead and pull these off.
There we go.
I'm gonna pull that again.
See how it's just kind of making it
smaller, smaller, smaller?
And by here, you can probably just pull it off
with your fingers.
Alright, so we take it off the loom completely,
and there's that beginning one.
You see how you can just pull on it and it just
draws it all together.
Okay, now, you can say it makes this little
flower or rose here.
Now, this is actually the right side of our project,
but I like how it looks when I turn it over,
and you can see the wrong side, and it has it look
like a little purl stitch.
So I'm actually gonna make this the front
of my little earring.
Okay, the way we make the earring is I'm going to put
a knot in here first to make sure I secure this opening.
This is that little slipknot we did.
I'm just gonna let that pop out.
We want to get our tail here and get a tapestry needle.
Alright.
So now I wanna go through a couple of these stitches,
and I'll leave a loop, or go back through this
little loop here, and pull in a knot.
Okay, and then I'm gonna make this yarn
come up to the top where this other tail is, okay?
Now that I have in my other tail, I wanna get one of
my earring blanks, and I'm gonna have it face towards me,
and I'll slip one of these on.
Just gonna use the tail here from the beginning.
So this beginning strand is up towards the edge.
And we're just gonna put that through our earring blank.
Here we go.
And you might need something to help you thread it through.
And then we're just gonna tie a knot here.
Now, you may wanna not tighten it too tight for the
first time when you're trying to do this because you wanna
make sure that your earring blank is gonna face
the right direction for you.
So if you grabbed the wrong way, you may not
be able to turn it around.
You'll have to do it again.
Alright, and so I'm gonna tie that knot.
Perfect.
And then you can go ahead and cut it there if you want to,
but what I like to do is thread it back down to the center,
both of them, and then I'll tie a knot again,
and that's really...
It's not needed for security, it's just more
that's where I want my knot to be, and when I tie my tails
in, I don't want it to have a little frayed end showing.
So that's more a matter of preference.
Alright, so I'm down to the middle right here,
and then we're just gonna cut it after we knot it.
So one and two,
and then cut our little tails.
And that is it, you have your earring.
You're gonna wanna make two of these now.
Aren't these the cutest?
They are just the perfect thing to get you right into
spring, and I'm telling you, they are squishy soft.
They'll feel fantastic against your skin.
I can't wait to try these on, and I want you to tell me,
what is your favorite color in the Chic Sheep?
Be sure and go to the website.
Click on the link in the description below
and check all of the colors out.
I can't wait for you to see what Marly has in store for you
and all the patterns that they're releasing right now.
Oh my gosh, it's so squeezable soft.
It's, you know, it's that 100% Merino wool feeling fabulous.
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Alright, have a great day,
and happy knitting and crocheting.
Buh-bye, everyone.
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