Host Your Dream Galentine’s Party

Hi, everybody and welcome to our Galentine's Day party planning live event. I'm Brenda KB Anderson. This is my friend, Emily Stefan. Oh, we're so excited to be here with you guys today. We're gonna be talking you through, um, a, a pattern, a uh a whole big combination of crafts compiled together to make beanie pattern. Um We're gonna be talking you through that, but then we're also going to be kind of interjecting some other ideas on how to plan your Valentine's Day party. So, um, the thing that we're gonna be making today is the Galentine's Day exchange beanie. So that is what this looks like. It is a bunch of squares, um, that gets sewn up and then a ribbed band here. And then the, the cool thing about this hat, the kind of concept behind this is this is a way for you to invite all your friends to get involved together, to do some crafting together. So here we have crocheting and sewing and knitting all in this one hat. Uh But you know, if you wanna only focus on one of those crafts, you can totally make this hat with just one of the crafts, you don't have to do all three. So the, the concept behind this was that you would, um, everybody would make a ribbed band that would fit their head and then everybody would bring 10 squares and then they would go to a party hosted somewhere. It could be, you know, at a coffee shop or someone's house or you could even do this through the mail if you can't actually get together. And that's a great idea. And then everybody swaps some of the squares. It would be like, um you know, your, your available times day exchange from the olden times when everybody brought Valentine's Day and passed them out to each other and then you end up with your same rib band that you made to fit your own head. But then you have everybody else's squares like, you know, a square from everybody or two or just depending on how many people you do this with different amounts of squares from different people compiled together to make your own beanie and everybody gets a beanie at that. So that's the fun part too. So, and the cool thing, if I can just jump in the cool thing I think about this too is that I, I feel like if I'm thinking about this with my friends, right? We there are so many different crafting abilities so you can make this as easy or as complicated as you want it to be. And the idea is just to play with the materials and have fun and end up with a cool hat. Yes, absolutely. The best beautiful hat in the world. It's very customizable, right? So, for skill level and you know, for what you wanna be doing, um you know what craft you wanna be working on or whatever. So, um there is a free download with all of the instructions for the beanie. And plus at the end, there's a bunch of other tips and suggestions on how to plan your Valentine's Day party. Um So there's different themes in there and that sort of thing. So that's all in your free download and that's in the description. So just click on the link and then you can get that, you can follow along, you can get it later if you don't feel like doing it now, it'll be available later too. So, no big deal. Ok. So, um let's first talk about, we're going to start out by talking about the ribbed band. So there's three different ribbed bands you can make, it's kind of like a choose your own adventure situation. So you are only making the ribbed band for your own head unless you have a friend who wants to join you in this Valentine's Day exchange and they really, you know, wanted a knitted band and they don't knit or something like that. You can arrange something, you know, there's lots of different ways to, to take care of your friends during this uh party here. Share your crafting love. Exactly. Um So there's three different kinds of ribbed bands. The one that I have on the hat that I just showed you is a knitted one. There's also a crocheted one and there's also a sewn one. So I'm gonna start out talking you through the knitted one. Um And I also just wanted to mention really quickly to that um We're gonna be going through all the techniques you need to know to make this hat like the things that are shown in the pattern download. There's also Emily did a little extra credit and she's got some awesome things to show us later on with the sewing, some other variations that are really fun. I can just take a pattern and follow it. I love that though. This is the story of my life creative. Um So we're gonna be going through all that kind of stuff too. But if we're going through things a little bit quickly, we're trying to, you know, we're trying to cram in a lot of useful information into this live event. And um if there are things that you need a little bit more help with, there are some helpful links that I put in the download as well that you can refer to. Um If you need to go over things definitely, um definitely put a comment in the box. If you have questions about things you want us to go over things more. Um, if you just wanna say hi or happy Pre Galentine's day to somebody wished us blessings and crochet. I like it. Ok. All right. So I'm gonna start out here talking about the knitted band. So this is the knitted version of the, this is what you'll come to the Galentine's exchange. So maybe I should explain that a little bit better. So you can choose whether your group of friends. If you wanna all make all the pieces and parts at your own home separately ahead of time and then you meet up for your Valentine's Day exchange. You will be bringing a ribbed band and 10 squares because that's what you need and then you'll end up with a band and squares from everybody. You could do it that way. Or if you would rather like, maybe you have together. Exactly if you want to get, I mean, who doesn't want to get together two times or even more than two times? Um Maybe you have some friends who are interested in crafting and this could be a fun game. You could teach them how to make some squares and then like you could get together at a little party and make some squares and then everyone kind of gets a feel for what they're doing, then they go home and complete them and then the second party on Valentine's Day or whenever um you guys can get together and then put everything together. OK. So there's lots of different ways to trip this. The other thing I also wanted to mention, which I, I should have mentioned at the beginning. Maybe you're not getting together with a group of friends who craft, maybe you don't have a bunch of craft, crafty friends, right? Like there's all different kinds of people out there and we love them no matter whether they're crafty or not. Ok. Um So this could be something where you make something for yourself and then make another hat for your friend also. Like those besties bracelets that you used to have that are half of a heart. We can have like little management themed beanies or you could just make it for yourself and you can be our Galentine Emily and I are happy to be your galentine. So 100%. All right. So here's the ripped band. It's very stretchy, it's very straightforward. Um, but I am going to walk you through how to do it. So you're going to cast on 100 100 stitches to begin. Um, I am using the German twisted cast on because it's nice and stretchy and that's my preferred to see the things and there is, there is a link in the, in the download in case you need to go over this a little bit more thoroughly because I'm gonna be going through it a little bit quickly. So I'm starting with a slip knot on my needle and, uh, my ball or the yarn that's connected to the ball is on my right, the yarn, that's just the yarn and is on my left and you only need for casting on. Oh, actually, for 100 stitches you're going to need more and is 100 just kind of like a general like, hey, cast on 100 because that's what most people's head sizes are. So, ok, you're gonna have to check your gauge. Thank you for bringing that up Emily. So you can do a smaller section and make sure that it's going to end up the right size or if you're like me and you're like, well, the ribbing piece isn't really that big. I mean, that's kind of like the size of a gauge swatch and then you'll know exactly what it is. If you're ok with that, then you can just go ahead and cast on one. So it's up to you however you want to do it. Um That's the cool thing about this hat though is all the pieces are very small. So the, you know, you would have to remake a small square instead of the whole hat. You know, you'll try out the technique and if it's too big, it's like that's your gauge swatch. So you can use it. I love that thought because that also makes it super beginner friendly because when you are, when and if you are making mistakes, it's easy to just quickly. Ok. Let's start over and you're not ripping out half a sweater arm. Right. Right. You don't want to, don't want to hold on before. Ok. So I hold the yarn, I put it in my hands like this. Just the two strands. So I've got one strand that's just the end of the yarn, um, the yarn tail and then one that's connected to the ball over here and then I'm gonna place my finger and my thumb through the through um that little hole opening basically. And I'm going to use my needle to go underneath both the strands here and then it's gonna come up on top and then it's going to go on the top and down through that opening there. And then I'm going to bring it over here across the top and in the hole and then down through here and in this little hole right there, just kind of pull it through and then it's the German twisted cast on. This is a little stretchier than like long tail cast on or some of the other cast on. And then you can let go with your thumb and then use your thumb to kind of tighten that loop up. I mean, of course, you don't want it too tight, but so let's do that again. So we'll go under two strands on the top of the strand that's kind of like in between your thumb and your finger right there. Yep. And then you're going to come over here, go on top of the strand that's going around your finger. And then there's this little hole right here that you can go through. And if you can't take your needle through that hole, you can do this to make that hole bigger. I find that for me it's harder to do it that way. But for some people I know it's easier. So that's just another little, I love that. That makes that edge stretchy as opposed to it gets tight. It can get kind of tight with some of some of our other cast. There's, I mean, there's like a million cast ons out there and so many that I've never even done before. That's awesome. So I, I have to learn more about cast ons, but this is a good go to for me. Um For most things I, once I started doing this, I was like, OK, this is an easy enough motion. Once you do it a few times, you know, for a few projects or whatever, then you kind of get it cemented in your head there. So I'm just gonna cast on 16 stitches, but you will be casting on 100 stitches for the, for the uh ribbing. And if you find that the ribbing is, does not turn out the right size, you can cast on fewer stitches if it got too big. So you're gonna do that in amounts of four or you can cast on more stitches if it's too small. So, this ribbing just needs to fit your head. That's much more important than, um, you know, getting the exact measurement because everybody's gonna be using different yarns. Oh, we should talk about the, the yarns too. Everybody's gonna be using kind of whatever they have, whatever they find. Um, it should be a worst of weight yarn though. A number four. Although in this project I'm actually using a number five and I'm using a number three doubled. So I'll talk about a little bit more about that as we go. There is a lot of wiggle room and things, but you just have to kind of know how to make your substitutions. All right, let me count up here. 24681, other thing that I just wanna mention while you're counting that we did um, ahead of time is we kind of thought, OK, what if we're gonna make do this party, if we're gonna pull this together with a lot of different people? The one thing that would make the hat very uniform is making sure that our color story is kind of the same. So the website remind me of the website that you use. It's called Coolers, coolers. It's spelled like cool and then cools with an extra. The cool thing about that. And I just, this was a new website to me is that we were able to go on and find because we, we, we, we are not neighbors as cool as that would be. Um, we were just over email and I jumped on coolers and I was like, all right, this is so, and you kind of, it's with, um, swatches and they give you R GB numbers, you know, which is like the actual color numbers. And I think it even has like pantone color names. So if you're really wanting to match precisely, it has all that, but you can lock certain colors in and kind of flip through other ones and it kind of matches things for you. So for us to make something kind of seamlessly, we just picked a color story or a color theme or a chunk of colors ahead of time to say, hey, you're going to make these at home. I'm going to make these at home. But these are the colors we're going to use and that's an easy way. It kind of goes together and you don't have to worry about it or guess and say I'm getting a sage green. But is that sage green, more yellowy sage or is it more tan sage or is it more green sage? So, I was like, the website is now one of my favorite things. It's because it's, it's, it's very fun to get color inspiration from there too. And there are, and maybe you already mentioned this, but there are like pre select. You can go through trending color palettes and just, you know, if you're like, oh, I don't even know where to start because people are just like, I don't know where to start up. You can just scroll through and be like, oh, I love these colors together and then you can, you know, send it and be like, what do you guys think of this? You know? So I feel like that, that does help with picking some of the yarns in the fabrics to say like, hey, this, I have this already. So let's start with a mustard yellow or a teal or a hot pink or something and then go from there and kind of kind of add things in there. So that's what we did before this so that we could, you know, coordinate our stuff because we, we haven't not met up since before we, no, since we decided we were gonna do this project together. So, all right. So I, I only have 16 stitches cast on here. Um You would have 100 and I'm only, I should just mention I'm just working on these double point needles only because that I don't have these long needles click clacking along on the table here. It's just, that's the only reason. OK, so I'm gonna start out doing two knit stitches. So I'm gonna insert my needle here, make a yarn over and pull that through there. One two and then I'm going to do two pearl stitches. So I bring the yarn to the front to two pearl stitches. This is just a two by two rib. That's all we're doing here. And then two knit stitches. One and two is so great. You see the progress so easily. Yeah. And it's, I always love it when you get about three rows in and then you can start to see a stretchy and you can see what, what stitch you're supposed to be doing. So you don't have to pay. Then if he comes, I'm sitting in front of my favorite TV, show or movie and that's easier. Yep. Love it. Ok. So then you will be ending with those two pearl stitches and then you're just gonna turn your work. I just designed this, um, to work this piece flat just because I thought there might be some newer knitters. But if you, you know, you already know how to work ribbing in the round, you can definitely just work this piece in the round. No problem. Instead of working. Is there a preference when you're attaching it, whether flat or in the round? Like when we're making the whole hat, you feel like it's probably easier. Either way I have, I instructed for people to sew it into a tube first before putting it. So it doesn't matter. So it really does not matter. It. Perfect. Ok. So then the next row we're doing the same thing, two knits, two pearls tits, two pearls all the way across and you're just going to repeat the same pattern. Two knits, two pearls, two knits, two pearls all the way across to the end of your row. And you're gonna do that for eight rows. You can just barely start to see the ribbing. There's all my knits, there's my pearls. So on the next row, it'll be a little bit easier to tell what stitches you're supposed to be doing. So, if you've been thinking, maybe you're a crochet and you're like, oh, I think it'd be kind of fun to learn how to knit. This might be a good place to start with just making some little pieces for this hat and you could combine them all together. All right. So, um, so I've just worked the second row. You would turn and just keep working back and forth and back and forth until you get your eight rows and it'll look like this only, it'll be much longer and then you're gonna bind off and, um, it just says to bind off in pattern. So, what that means is you're gonna bind off knit wise two and then bind off pearl wise two. So you'll knit the first two stitches and this is something interesting. So I'm normally, some of you may know, normally I teach crochet. I don't normally teach knitting. I've been knitting for a long time and I design in knitting, but it's a different thing for me to be able to teach it because, um, every little thing I'm doing, I'm like, am I really doing this a real life? Like I have to just make sure that I really, you know, it's easy to design it and then write all the instructions down. But then, you know, there's so many different ways to hold the yarn things and it doesn't necessarily mean that it's wrong. It's just different. So I've been learning a lot about all the different ways that things can be done. And I realized as I was doing this, that when I do my bind off, I do it a little differently than most, most of the, the videos that I saw about. So I just so I knit first stitch and then I knit the second stitch. But before I even pull it off that needle, I come over here with my left hand needle and pull the stitch over. That feels so much more seamless actually. And I, I don't know if this is just maybe easily like the crocheted. Maybe it could be because you're not. It would be. But um, if any of you knitters have, have any thoughts about this or if anybody does it this way, this is, this is how I learned how to do it from my mom and you're moving the stitch in the same place and it feels like there's less slack because sometimes when I bind off, I end up with that weird. I don't even know how to describe it. But slack, like this is kind of all one motion and you don't have, you don't have to pull your needle out two times. But, you know, I'm not, however you bind off is how you bind off. And that's totally fine. Like that is, that is something to preach to the high heavens that it's, if it works for you, I don't, it's not wrong. I feel like so many times you have things and right and wrong with crafting. And you're like, and I think it's easy to see other people doing it a different way and you feel like you feel like I did that wrong. I'm not doing this right. But if it's working for you, then understand, say it's right. Yes. Yes. OK. So you're just finding it off in patterns. So you're making, you know, when you get to your pearl bumps, you make a basically a pearl stitch. But then you're gonna, and then you can pull your needle out. This is the way most people do it and then they take their needle and, and pull that stitch over the top of this needle. See, that feels awkward to me because I never do it that way. Um But that's where I get the extra slack is pulling that stitch over and maybe sometimes that's helpful if you want your, maybe it makes your bind off you want. So that might be something for people to try. If they feel like their bind offs are really tight. Maybe try and do it, you know, if they do it my way to make sure that I'm doing it the other way. All right. So let me get these last two bound off here. You've inspired Twilla to do that new cast on. She's never tried it before. Oh, yeah, there is a little link to that. The German twisted cast on and it just helps make things really stretchy. You can see it stretchy here. So, all right. And that's all there is for the knitted one. So next, do we wanna talk about this? Dispersion? Emily is gonna talk about that. So, if you are feeling like holy moly, that knitting feels really complicated, that's ok because the, the same idea is that you would come with a band. It doesn't have to be knitted. This is out of or knit knitted. It doesn't have to be knit. This is out of fleece and so fleece and, um, uh, not wool felt but like wool have, have a stretchiness to them. You also could use knitted material like a knit fabric actually, if you want to show this. Yeah, this is like a little slightly heavier than, you know, slightly heavier than a T shirt, but thinner than a polar fleece and a knit. So the, so the key would be just to choose a fabric that has a stretch to it because, um, wool here like I mean, it has some, but it's pretty tight. It doesn't really move too much. Whereas this, you have that stretch to pull around your head because you don't want like a, you know, loosey goosey kind of hat situation. And fleece is always a good and honestly, if you don't even have fleece constantly, I'm walking into like a fabric store and they have the remnant section always has fleece in it because it's like a little, you know, tiny eighth of a yard if that, that's left over at the end of the bolt. So that, that's pretty, pretty easy to get. Yep. So the idea here is you, you're gonna cut your length to go around your head with a, you know, a little stretch it to measure the measure in the, in the download that you can cut it to. But like Emily is saying, definitely you can fiddle around with that. You can make it a little bigger, a little smaller. But this, the measurements that I put in the download should fit most. I would heads most people unless you feel like you have a giant brain. And also you have, you know, a lot of hair too, right? Yeah. Ok. So the idea here is, what's that for a giant, a giant brain? I don't know. I mean that is, that isn't, that's what I tell my Children you have. You have a big, beautiful brain, please use it. Um, ok. So the thought here is, is I'm just gonna go through kind of using both of these. It's a long skinny rectangle, right. So, all you're going to do is connect it right sides together. So, like this a quarter inch of a, of a stitch and you can use regular thread, but I'm just going to keep things simple and use our worsted weight yarn, which is kind of the, the, the tying theme of all the squares to make the crochet work with the knit work with the se pieces is using a worsted weight yarn. That's double. This was an amazing solution by Jen because I was like or by by Brenda. Sorry, that um that to make it all work together because I'm like, oh, this is an amazing idea. But how is this going to work together? It helps the fabric squares have that little extra stretchiness and it helps combine the pieces together to make them look like they belong to a little bit too. So a lot of the sewing that we're going to do is with a double stranded worsted weight yarn. And I'm using a pointy, super pointy, nice and thick needle. And do you want to just talk like four seconds about the need because I struggled a little bit with it. So, for the sewing parts, because here's a little tiny preview because we're gonna be making these little blanket stitches around here and we're gonna be embroidering mostly with the worst of weight yarn, you could change this up and you could use embroidery floss or for, you know, some of the embroidered juices or whatever. But for the outside border, I highly recommend using the worsted weight yarn because I think it'll tie it together so much. It'll make it cushier and it just, even if you're doing all sewn square, you're not doing any knitting crochet. I still feel like having this worst. The weight yarn in there is just going to help it. And it kind of delineates the visual of each person's square. I mean, seeing it in person. I was like, yes, I really like that because it, it really is sort of that granny square effect. It's a border and it looks like a little art is kind of saluting all the people who came together with quilting bees and just, you know, coming together in a group of friends making something together. To me. It just feels ok as we're talking about needles. I am over here. This is the proof is in the pudding here, I'm struggling with this needle. This is what I was having with. So this is great. You can go down to one thread or one strand of yarn on the, on the that sewing. But for the blankets which I still recommend doing too, do you want to try this needle and see if it's love it? Well, here, let me do this part and then I'll swap you out. So let me, let me talk about the needles. So guys, this is real life crafting the needles actually put a link to this in the download because um the needles are pretty important. You need to find a needle that has here. Let me pull it out. You need to find a needle that has a large enough eye that you can get the yarn through and it a thick enough needle that it basically pokes a large enough hole in your fleece or whatever you're using so that you can get two strands of that worst weight yarn through without it being too tricky. Are you having a hard time getting it through? I am maybe I need to go down to one or you can go through one layer at a time if that helps too. Oh, or I could give you a different yarn. Let me try, let me try one more time. Ok. So it needs to be sharp on the tip right here. Needs to be sharp here and then it needs to be, have a large enough um ha ha ha ha, like a large enough circumference and a large enough eye here so that it can take care of that thicker yarn going through. So I, I actually bought these for this project because most of my tapestry needles like this are blunt ended because I'm a knitter and crochet and usually we use like a blunt end. Um needle here. And I realized none of my needles were either wide enough here for the yarn or they were wide enough, but they weren't sharp down here. So, anyway, so these worked really well for me, there's a bunch of different sizes in here and you might wanna try out if you get something like this, you might wanna try out the different sizes to see if that makes a difference, um, in getting it through your fabric. The other thing that really makes a huge difference is the fabric that you choose as well. Some polar fleeces, even if you're using polar fleece, some of them is really squeaky and it's a tighter weave and it's harder to get the needle to go through is a good way to put it because you can actually go through some of it is like a little bit looser. So you can look for that at the store. Also. This yarn here, this yarn, this fabric here, this knitted fabric that I'm using. It was very easy for me to stitch through that. Um Just because of the way that, you know, it's knit up, is it working? Because I'm failing miserably, it's working. But I'm like using every ounce of my fingertip string. Oh, why don't you go down to one? I should go down to one string. I think that's what's tripping me up. A little tricky there. Lordy. Lordy. Lordy, start over. So OK, love the needle tips. Because clearly I'm showing why this is so important and it really, you know, it, it does depend a lot on the fabric. 01 thing that I found, which was super easy to sew through and really went really well with this project was the felt sweaters. So that's what this is. Uh, that's what this is. Yes. Ok. I, I love rescuing wool sweaters from the fabric store or not from the fabric store store. And then I felt them in my washing machine at home. This hat actually has, um, this square right here. This, this felted sweater. I felt it in my washing that you and then I cut it and it cuts through really easily and it's very, very easy to sew through this. So I highly recommend that. But it is a little, you know, you can't just know that you're gonna be able to go to the store and find the right color that you're looking for. It's not. So there's lots of other options, you know? Ok. Here we go. We're in business now. Ok. All right. So back to the sewn, ribbed or the sewn, um, band. Basically, all I'm gonna do here is do a, I'm just gonna anchor this stitch really quick. I don't love knots because I feel like especially with a hat, you would end up with a bulge and I just don't want to deal with that. So you can, if you want to knot your yarn, please. 100% do whatever feels comfortable for you, but I'm just gonna anchor my stitch and then I'm just gonna do a running stitch. That's about a quarter of an inch away from the edge, which means I'm going to poke through and this fleece is really flimsy. So, and if you go through one layer at a time, if you poke through and then poke through the next one, it might be easier if you're having trouble too. Yes, poke through and poke through or you can just use your table and squish, which is what, which is what I'm doing. There are like um like a leather thimble would be helpful too. Like a little grip, you kind of thing might be helpful in putting it through. Yeah. So I'm just going, poking through and doing a not very aesthetic right now, but running stitch that's about a quarter of an inch away from the edge, which means you're going up and down and up and down and up and down just to sew this into a circle and this is just to get it sewn into a circle. There. Doesn't, there's no visual impact of this stitch right here. And you can certainly do this part with a needle and thread. If you know, that makes things easier. We just wanted to test it with the yarn to see if you had to buy another supply. You know, if you didn't already have thread and you were just, you knew you had to buy the yarn. We just wanted to test it out to see if we could sew it together. So I will need to go to a double stranded though to do it together. Yes. So I'm gonna just anchor this here so that this is just in a tube and just give it a trim and you can, before you cut that, actually, you can just go ahead and pull this end a little longer like that to make it double strand. So you don't have to, you don't have to. You are so smart. OK? I love crafting with other people. This is so good. So this is what it will look like right here. You have a tube and my wrong side is out right now. My right side is in. So I want my, if I'm just going to put this here to compare my right side to be out because we're working, we're not flipping this, I guess is what I'm trying to say. So what I'm gonna do is put my right sides, wrong sides together and match up my edges as best as possible. And you'll kind of be able to match it up a little bit more as you're going but match up your edges here and then simply do a blanket stitch around this top edge to kind of finish it off. I love blanket stitches for multiple reason. A in this situation we're going to be able to pick up those blanket stitches to use everything to stitch together. But also blanket stitches for fabrics that I feel like aren't getting tucked under and sewn in a more traditional way. It's such a cool finishing edge. Whether it's with a needle and thread or a needle and yarn or something like blanket stitches are one of my favorite stitches in the whole land. So for me to do a blanket stitch and just like Brenda said, there's probably a million different ways that you can find in nuances on how to do this. But what I like to do is I always like to start um on the bottom of my, of my fabric. So I'm holding it like this. This is the bottom. Some people like to start on the top. I just personally like to start on the bottom. So I go up and this knot is a little tricky, but I'm gonna go up and go around once through the similar ish hole. Let's just say that doesn't have to be the same, but you're gonna go around once and then I'm going to insert my needle into this whip stitch if you will, that we just did around the edge. And what that's gonna do is give us kind of a base. So my yarn is coming out of this side of the stitch. So now we can start the blanket repetition. So how that works again. I like to start on the bottom working up. So I go up and I would say probably a quarter inch from the edge, wouldn't you say? That's probably about, I think it just depends on your fabric but quarter inches, I think it looks nice. So you're going to come up and before you pull your stitch all the way your needle is going to go back through this hole. And what that does is it's carrying the yarn across and making a little tiny stitch on the edge. So just repeat that and you kind of have to, I found kind of just like work and tug a little bit while supporting the fabric with your fingers. So again, up about a quarter of an inch ish from the edge and then come back in that hole, pull a little tight, come up, needle through the hole and you'll start to see this edging across the top. And um I would say the consistency I would say is blanket stitches is how hard you pull your yarn or how well your blanket stitches look is how hard you pull your yarn or your, or your thread or whatever because you don't want to like yank it to high heavens because then it will have like weird tension on it and then you won't have enough stretch either. That's a good point. Yeah, because you want it to Yeah, you want it to be this like stretchy situation around the edge and then also the consistency on how far apart your stitches are. So, just kind of keep that in mind. Obviously, it doesn't have to be perfect. It's a hot, this is not like, and it's supposed to look patchwork and handmade and a little variation. Like we're not machines. We don't want it to look like it was made by a machine. We want it to look like it was made by a group of friends or a person, you know. Right. So I'm just gonna continue this blanket stitch around the edge. But the one thing that we were kind of talking about before this is you're obviously not gonna probably start with 300 miles of yarn to be able to go around the whole entire outside because blanket stitches kind of use a shocking amount of, of thread or yarn because you're kind of stitching and doing the side thing at the same time. So when you get to the end and you wanna change out your Y mas do a couple more and then I can just change out my yarn. And one thing too, I don't know, maybe I should have said this is to keep our stretch. I wanna kind of, I don't know, kind of tug a little bit on this and make sure it's laying flat and working as you go. And you'll notice that as you're putting your stitches together, these ends become less curly whirly than these ones. And they kind of start laying flat, which is the cool thing about a blanket stitch. So OK, so let's just pretend because I just want to show you this because again, um I feel like knots are tricky with a hat. So I want to show you how like let's just pretend I'm at the very end of my um my, my yarn here and I need to add a new piece. So what we were kind of talking about and this is going to be my first time trying it because Brenda was walking me through it. So yay, um is I'm gonna weave. Uh So here, let me explain it. I'm gonna weave my yarn and go back and forth and then start a new one picking up where I was and go fourth and back forth and back and forth, fourth and back and forth. Right? Does that make sense? Did I say that? Right? I think it'll make sense when you show everybody. So, so I'm gonna go through here and kind of go between the, um, I'm just gonna call them the vertical Blankety parts like these vertical to me, they're vertical right here. I'm gonna go between those my, my, my, uh needles inserting in here and I'm gonna kind of go between if I can, you kind of have to feel it, you can trick wiggle your needle in there with you. Even if you want it like this one, you can still see I went on the, just under the yarn, the yarn. So you can do that too. Like if you wanna be extra, extra super seamless, you can go between the two layers of the fabric. But if you just wanna have it a little bit more, you can just go under the yarn. I love that. OK, let's do that. So I just went under the vertical little part of the yarn. But here's what one thing I'm noticing. I don't want to pull too tight to make it look like that stitch is being yanked and I'm gonna go back through just a couple little vertically blanket parts right here. OK. So it's three, right? And then now I'm gonna go forward again just and just make sure when you're going forward, you take it, you skip the last one you went under. So that way when you pull on it, it doesn't just pull your loop, right? So it's a good point. Wind it around that little. I thought you did that. But so yeah, so I inserted kind of halfway in between or the, between the double? Oh OK. Yeah. Does that make sense? Did I say that? Right? Because it's double stranded. Yeah. Sometimes I feel like I don't explain what I do remember. OK. That's why we have video. I know. Yes. OK. So I'm just gonna tuck this end in. I don't know if this is what you did, but I'm just gonna tuck this and in between the fabric. Now here's the thing. If you feel like this is too difficult and you want to make a knot, by all means, just make a knot because it's gonna be, it's gonna be, it's gonna be perfect. Yeah, we all, I think sometimes we think we have to anchor these stitches to, like, make sure that like the earthquakes and hurricanes can't rip them apart and in reality, like, they're pretty anchored. Ok. So now I'll cut a new piece of yarn. No, no, no, no, no, no. All right. And then put my two ends through my really giant eye of the needle. Yeah. Now again, if you want to make a knot, make a knot, it's fine. But now I'm gonna start over here. So past, you can kind of see that bulk. I like that. You can see that because now it is a better demonstration, go past this little area and I'm gonna go forward, backward forward. Is that what you did or did you go backward forward? I started in the opposite direction that I ended in. Oh, so I would go backward forward. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I don't know which I, I ended up forward. I ended up this way. I'm gonna go towards Emily and then towards Brenda and then you just wanna end up with your second pass is gonna bring you back to the, to the, to the place where you had ended your last blanket stitch. Yeah. I kind of have to just be a little gentle with it because I don't wanna like rip out all these little stitches. But if this is proving that what I just anchored is great. Did you see how much I wretched on that? Like it's fine. It is fine. People gotta go anywhere and look when I'm looking on this side, which I would say is my right side. Maybe the side that will be out. You can't even tell that's the best part. OK. Let's go this way. And I'm sure you're picking up on what I'm doing now, you just go backwards and forward and then we're gonna start our blanket pattern kind of all over again by doing that first whip stitch. Just work this, there we go. Um Doing that first web stitch, which was if you're a member you're gonna go. I like going up. If you like starting from the top down, that's totally fine. I, I like starting from the bottom up. That's just how I prefer to do a blanket stitch. So first the whip stitch because this sets you up for that blanket pattern. So go around the outside, pull it up, insert your needle coming towards you so that your yarn is on the opposite side of the stitch you just did and then blanket away. So up, put it through the loop and you'll just continue around until that band is done. Yeah, that's simple. Yep. Ta da. And when you look at it, it looks pretty seamless. All right. Yeah. So let's, let's talk a little bit about the crocheted version of the ribbing here. So, um, to start up the crochet version, we just draw a little loop, we're gonna fold that loop over onto the strand connected to the ball and we're gonna place our hook underneath and in the pattern, I specify what hook I'm using. I'm actually using a G hook here, which is a four millimeter hook. And I can't remember if I mentioned the knitting needs were also four millimeter as well. I can't remember if I mentioned that, but that's all in your download. So you don't have to, you don't have to remember that. Um And then we're going to chain eight. So and eight. Now we're gonna skip the very first chain next to the hook and then we're going to work across the remaining seven, but we're going to work into the bottom of the chain. So right now there's a bunch of little vs going in this direction. We're going to roll that over here and then we're gonna work a single crochet underneath uh sorry, uh half, double crochet underneath that first horizontal dash there. So we're going to yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through three and we'll do that again. Y aren't over insert. Y aren't over pull up, you aren't over pull through three. So we've got two half, double crochets and we're just gonna continue making those half, double crochets all the way across. Um, maybe while I'm doing this, Emily, if you're able to check and see if anybody has any questions or anything like that for us. I just want to check in this. OK. This is a good question with some, excuse me, with some kind of all to prep the hole in the fleece help. That's a question. I would say it could, but I was probably just using the wrong needle, I think. I mean, it could help but an awl probably unless your owl is sharper than your needle. Yeah, that I don't think is going to make too much of a difference. I think it depends a lot more on the fabric and maybe we can do a little blank stitch on that to show that the fabric, the knitted fabric there, I think. And even just amongst the fleeces, there's going to be some that are much easier. This is kind of thick fleece. It's got a, it's got a kind of tighter weave to it. It's a more expensive fleece than some of the other. But maybe the less expensive fleeces are a little bit easier to go through. Ok. So I've reached the end of my row and now I'm going to chain to one and two and I usually chain those fairly tightly when I'm doing half, double crochet just because I find my half, double crochet, stitches, um, aren't quite tall enough to match up with a longer chain to here. Um That's just like a personal preference thing. You can also just chain one there. If that's what you're used to doing, then we're gonna turn our work and we're gonna work into the back of the V here. So we're gonna be, this is called working into the back of the stitch. Um So instead of working under the both strands, how we normally do, we're just gonna work under the back. So if you take a look here, we're skipping these two little vs, those were the chains we just made, we're gonna make a yarn over and we're gonna insert our hook underneath just that back loop there yarn over, pull up loop, yarn over and pull through three. OK? And then we're going to continue that yarn over, insert, yarn over, pull up the loop, yarn over, pull through three, just gonna continue making those half, double crochets all the way across like this to the end. And then we will chain to one and two and then we'll turn our work and continue doing the same stitch. So you're an over insert through that back loop. You're an over pull up loop, you're an over, pull through three. So this is just a half, double crochet through the back loop only. Um ribbing and we're, we're creating our ribbing sideways as you probably noticed. Um, so this is a different direction than how we created our knitted ribbing. The knitted ribbing we cast on all. Well, the knitted ribbing, we cast on all of our stitches and we work back and forth and in order to get the ribbing to be stretchy and bumps the right way, we, we are just working very short little rows here in order to create this ribbing here. So, and that's it. So all you need to do is just keep going back and forth. I think there's um 58 rows that we need to work up here. You can see this is what my ribbing looks like. It looks extremely similar to this. This is actually a different yarn, but it looks very, very similar. Um And then once you do your last row, your last pass across of those half, double crochets through the back loop only, then you will just chain one and you're gonna turn your work just like you're gonna work another row. But then you're going to take the foundation chain, which is right here right by your beginning tail and you're gonna place that right on top of your last row that you worked. Now, you're gonna work a slip stitch through just the back loop of each layer here. So we're gonna put our hook here in the back back loop of that stitch from that front layer and then the back loop of the um stitch from the layer behind, then we yarn over, pull through both those loops and through the loop on the hook. And that makes our slip stitch. So we're gonna do that again. Back loop, back loop, yarn over, pull through and pull through. So we're just gonna continue making these slip stitches. This is instead of steaming it, you could, of course, if you'd rather steam it, you can absolutely do that instead. Um But working it through the back loop like this, this allows um the front loops to be free and for it to kind of blend in a little bit more with a stitch pattern which you'll see in just a second. I'm gonna do my last slip stitch here and now you can see when we open it up, it has the same kind of little bumps and grooves. It like it looks like it blends in pretty well there. So, um, and then at that point, you can just go ahead and fasten off. Well, it looks like there's a little knot in my urine there, but that's ok because we made it, um, you don't need to leave a long length of yarn here unless you're planning on using that color to sew all of your pieces together later when you assemble your beanie, which you could, you could leave a long length there that you'd already have it attached to this piece. And then you'd be able to just use that for steaming. So I'm just gonna pull that right through like that to fasten off. And then I would just weave in my ends if I wasn't using those for steaming just to get them all done. I like to weave in my ends as I go on things because otherwise it's just like overwhelming at the end. And I'm like, oh actually that, that leads into this question from Kona, who's saying when we do the squares, you could, could you join as you go? And it got me thinking for crochet. She's asking specifically if you're doing this in person in multiple sessions with your friends. It could be that you're like, hey, everybody pass your square to the right and you're weaving it as you're kind of making your own hat. That is an option. I mean, because you're leaving your ends available to be woven in, but you're not, you're not weaving in each individual because you're putting your blanket stitch on the edge, I guess, maybe I'm not saying that properly. But you know what I mean? So um and I think she's talking about joining as you go is a technique that can use a knitting and crocheting where you are when you're crocheting modular things and then you put them, you know, wrong sides together or right sides together or however you do it and then you're ditching through um the other piece as you go so that way there's no sewing later. Um, you could do that. I guess. It just depends on how you make the squares. First of all, if you are only making the granny squares, it would be really easy to do that because it's stitched all the way around. Um, the other squares, you would have to do some sort of, I mean, you just have to figure that out, like how you're gonna join them as you go because they're all made differently. Um But if you're only using the granny square, that would work. If you're doing the single crochet, stitch back and forth, you could make it your square a little bit smaller and then go all the way around and you could use that for joining as you go up in a situation. Um The other thing though is if you are doing this, if you're just making this hat for yourself, then that's great. You can absolutely go. But if you are planning on using this as the gallentine exchange sort of thing and you're getting scores from other people, then it's, it might be a little trickier. You know, you just have to make sure everybody's got the same sort of scores that you could join. Um But also the other thing that I really, the other drawback to joining as you go, this is the reason I love the idea of joining as you go because I love, like when you're done, you're done. I feel like that's awesome. There's nothing else to do, but I also like rearranging things in an aesthetic way. So the problem with joining as you go is you don't, if you're doing a collection of a bunch of different colors, mix and match as you can't just look at all. It's a super and you don't know what's coming next. So you don't know, you know, like maybe you join as you go and then later you're like, oh, it really together or something. Yeah. So that would be my cau you know, word of caution, depends on how you're using this project or how you're using the patterns, how you, how you plan to lay out your Valentine's Day, basically. Exactly. Yeah. All right. So, um we've talked about all the ribbons. So you're going to make a ribbon that fits your own head, you're going to bring it to the party or maybe you're just making this hat for yourself, which is totally fine. Um You have a ribbon that fits your head. So then let's move along and talk about the square. So um let's talk about, we'll talk about this in TJ square F. I love that one. This little guy, let me bring over my little collection of things. This is um a knitted square. And what I did was I used the entire version of knitting, which means that you have a separate ball of color for each block of color. That you're working on. So for example, when you're, when you're waking this heart, you can go back and forth in just the one color you get to hear, then you switch to the pink and then because you've already moved with the pink, you, you start another ball of this gold over here. So you really have three balls going at once. So one here, one here and one on this side of the heart. So the thing about in Tarsia though is that for little sections, it might just be easier not to have a whole another ball because up here, when we get to this part in the heart, it seems so kind of silly to have a ball of yarn here, a ball of yarn for that one stitch and then later for those three and then a ball of yarn here. So what I did let me show you, I did an tia for the bottom of the heart and then once I got up to the very top of the heart, I stranded my colors. So I'm going to be talking, I'm going to be showing you guys what that means. Um There are also notes in the pattern download, telling you what, what rows I did the Inara process and then where I switched to the stranded. Um And then there's also some links for you guys and how is the Naara different than just doing basic color work? So color work could mean a whole bunch of different. It's like a broader term. It's kind of like more than one color at once, but they're stranded, which is what I'm using at the top. That means you're like carrying, you're carrying your yarn as you go across. But in Tarja, you, you just hook your yarn, you twist your yarns around each other and then you switch to the next color and then you twist your yarns around each other and it's like a different ball of yarn. So you're not ever carrying your yarn because otherwise you'd be carrying your, your pink across. So you'd be carrying like if you, you could strand this where you'd be carrying this color across the pink. Um and back on that you must, but the reason you don't want to strand something this wide is because you can, it's gonna have a very long strand there and you can do things where you twist your yarns around each other halfway point. So, I mean, there are lots and lots of different ways to get. I am so eager to see. This is really awesome. Yeah. So um let's see. Let me get started here. So I've already done my cast on. I did the same kind of cast on as before the German twisted cast on here. This time, I have 17 stitches on my needle and I am gonna start working, working across in seed stitch. Ok. So that would be we're gonna start with a knit stitch. We're gonna do a knit stitch first and then a pearl stitch and then we're gonna repeat that all the way across. So knit pearl, knit pearl. And I added this little seed stitch border around the square. It, it helps to keep it from curling, but which isn't really a problem because, you know, even if it was kind of curly, you could block it and then send it to the hat and it wouldn't be a problem. But it, it just seemed to make things a little easier. But I also just thought it was cute. It just, sometimes that extra dimension is really fun. It's just a cute little bumpy. I feel like it's a little frame around your Valentine. You know, I kept thinking when I was making these, um designing the pieces that I worked on. Um, like, oh, what would, what would be a cute looking, a cute looking Valentine? All right. So I worked all the way across. I ended with a knit stitch because we have an odd number of stitches started with the knit, ended with a knit. Then I am going to turn my work and here I have a pearl stitch because that's what's on the back of a knit stitch and on the next row, I'm going to, again be starting with a knit stitch because when you're working in seed stitch, you do the opposite of what you have below. So, here's you, you have a pearl stitch here. So you're gonna work a knit stitch into it. So, knit pearl, it's exactly the same row that we already did. OK. So that's easy to remember. Knit pearl, nip, pearl, knit pearl. And then ending with that knit at the end. So I'm gonna work my way across and then we have one more row to do in the seed stitch and then we'll start on following our little color work chart. All right, Emily, do we have any more questions or anything like that? It sounds like everybody's just observing and excited to do this. Yay. I'm curious, um, for the people out there who are thinking about making this project. If you guys are thinking about making dabbling in all the crafts or if you're doing, you know, just crochet or just knitting or just sewing. And if you, you know, if you're gonna have some crafty friends join in, I feel like there's so many ways to take this whole idea of a party because you could also just have your friends come and have an instructional light where you supply, you know, run to the store and just get all the same yarns and have, you know, a big table. You could totally go shopping together too. I mean, that could be fun. Let's just make this a seven night event. Why not a marathon of crafting with your friends? Nobody would be mad about that as long as you have snacks. I'm in. Why not? All right. So here I am doing the third row. This is the third knit pearl, knit, pearl knit, pearl, knit pearl ending in a knit. Um OK. So I've done my three rows of seed stitch and then I'm gonna turn my work and then the way that I think about the rest of this piece. So you've got your little seed stitch section here and there's this little square in the middle. This is what the chart is for. And the inside of your, let me just pull this out and show you guys here's the chart. Um This is the chart that I'm going to be following. Let me put this over here. Maybe I love those charts because it feels so like, OK, we're a one we're done. You can cross it off or cover what I like to do is I like to have a piece of paper, like a full sheet of paper and I cover where I haven't gone yet because it's nice to see where you've been. You can, then you can connect your stitches. But as you move up, I mean, obviously you wouldn't need it for here. No, I mean, but like when you get up to here, it might be helpful to just see that. And um that's how I normally like to do my charts. And at first I was like, I can keep track of where I'm at. I don't need a piece of paper with that, getting a piece of paper in the opposite where you put like a post it and then I get confused. I like this way, the post it, you put the post it above it. It's perfect because then you don't need to see where you're going. But I like the comparison thing because sometimes I get overwhelmed with like, ah, is that the wrong? And they were counting 37 times to make sure that you have two stitches where you're supposed to have two stitches. And OK, so before you get to the chart, you're still gonna be working three stitches in seed stitch over here. So there's three stitches here and there's three stitches here that are not on the chart. Your chart is only showing you what's happening in here with the color work and the directions will tell you that it'll say, you know, knit, pearl knit and then work your 11 stitches across the chart is how, you know, basically how it's put in the, in the pattern. So we're gonna start with our knit pearl, knit. So we do a knit and then a pearl and then a knit. And then, um, at this point, we're gonna be working across our chart. So our whole first row is just knitting all the way across. It's just the same main color. So we don't have to actually change color yet. Um And I just added that in there because it seemed to make it easier to get your frame of reference going. Obviously, you don't need the chart to tell you just knit all the way across in your main color. But, but it helps me to see the whole picture and to be able to know when to start it later. All right. So I've knit all the way across and then we're gonna end with that knit, pearl knit for our seed stitch border knit, pearl knit. OK? And then we're gonna turn our work. OK? And then the next row is the same, except we're gonna pearl in the middle. So we're gonna start with a knit pearl knit, just like we al we will always do that along that border. It's always gonna start out with a knit knit pearl knit. And now we're at row number two. So we're working this way across row number two. And we are gonna be working pearl stitches here because every time, um you're working on the wrong side of this color work section, you're gonna be working pearl stitches, pearls on the wrong side, knits on the right side. All right. A couple more stitches here. And then we're at our border. There's our last pearl. We're gonna do some pearl knit. You like to knit Emily. I do. But it's really great watching somebody. Do. You see when I grew up my mom, she would knit a lot. And I just remember hearing she used metal needles of the metal. I love that sound. It's just like add in a crackling fire and like you're golden is wonderful. Um OK, so now we're on row number three. This is where it starts to get exciting. OK. So we're gonna do five stitches in that center section. First, we start with our seed stitch border. So we do knit pearl net and now we're gonna do five stitches in just regular knitting one, And now we're gonna switch to our second color. So let me just bring in this pink here. This is a great, it's variegated almost with the gold. That's the thrifted sweater that I took apart. Oh my gosh. No way. Yeah, I did a little um blog post about that on the creative Crochet corner. I love that idea. We've all ripped out our own stuff. I mean, before someone else or that was a gap sweater. Yeah, that's so cute. OK. So I don't know why I remember that. OK. So, so to start, I just leave my yarn hanging on the front. So there's lots of different ways to do this. But this for some reason helps me, I think because I can put my thumb on it. So I'm going to be making the next stitch in this pink color. So I just leave it hanging on the front going between my two needles and I'm making a knit stitch right here with that new color. OK. And you might think. Oh OK. And then you just switch back to this color, but we're not gonna do that even though it'd be really easy to do at this point, we're not gonna do that because we're gonna need that extra ball of yarn for the second half. So I am going to switch and add a third, this third ball here and I'm gonna add it in the same way. I'm just gonna leave it hanging on the front, place it between my two needles there. Oh This makes so much sense. Just leave it hanging out and then I'm just gonna knit that stitch with the new yarn. OK? And then I'm gonna knit across and it might feel it will feel, especially if you've never done this before. It will feel like, oh my gosh, this is not, this is not stable. It's weird. Nothing's attached. That's how it always feels. That's just how it is when you first start this out, but later it'll be fine. I promise. OK. So we're gonna turn our work and then we're gonna work the next row. So this is a pearl row. So the idea is you start the columns of colors because then you basically, you're just trading off. I've never even seen this before and this is so great. Good. OK. So we're gonna start with a knit knit and then a pearl and then a knit. That's our same. Just seed dish border. We've been doing this whole time. Now we're at the pearling section here. So we're gonna go ahead and pearl, we have a total of four stitches in the main color and then we're gonna switch. So 1234 and now we're going to switch to the main color. And here's the thing about in Tarsia, you have to be wrapping the yarns around each other or you're going to make holes between your stitches because you have to connect those colors together. So we're gonna take this, this is the yarn, we just ended with, we're gonna lay it right across our needle. So think about it as being on the wrong side of your work, whichever side, whether that's facing you or not, it's gonna be on the wrong side of your work and it's gonna be running right along your needle and then you're gonna take the next color that you're switching to and that's going to, you're gonna bring it up and see how it crosses over that that's gonna link them together. So then you go ahead and make a pearl stitch here because you're doing all pearl because it's the back side of the work. We're gonna do two more pearl stitches because that's in our color and this will look loopy and horrible like it looks terrible right now. It works loopy until the looks and then you're like, then we can kind of pull on things later. So and then we're gonna do our third color or, or third stitch in that color and then we're gonna trade again. See, now, at this point, you can kind of pull on those yarn tails to tighten them up a little bit to keep them from being so wonky. So it kind of neatens it up and you just have to kind of pull on them a little bit, especially for the first few rows just to get everything settled and then it gets way easier after that. Ok. So here we are with our new stitch and again, we're going to lay that right across the wrong side of our needle, which is facing us right now. Make sure you grab the correct strand of yarn. You don't want this one. This is from this side, this is from this side. So we're going to pull that up and then we're gonna make a pearl stitch right here and work our way across. All right. And we've made it to our seed stitch border. So we're gonna knit pearl knit that this is so cool pearl knit and we'll turn our work and I'll work one more row and then I'll skip to the part where I do the stranding. Ok. Ok. So here we are, we have some holes in our work. This is all normal and it's going to be fine. I promise. I know it looks cuckoo bananas right now, but it will look better later. Once we kind of get all their little strands pulled in, see how we can tighten that up and make it look better. You can just kind of adjust it as you go. All right. So here we have a knit pearl knit and now we're at the knitting section of our color work chart. So we're gonna knit across to one stitch before that ne new color. So that because we're changing color and so now we're gonna be putting the, the strand of yarn across again across the wrong side of our work. And then we're gonna grab that new color from below and it's gonna cross over and then we're gonna knit that and knit across to where we change color. I made Christmas stockings for our family. I don't know, like these really cool Nordic lot of color work and I really, really wish I would have known this because there's like reindeer bodies and the inside where I carry. So I just ended up doing a lining because of you stuff, the Christmas stocking, you know, stuff, it was getting caught on like, you know, the little corner of the candy was my daughter's stocking or something. But I mean, in a lining solved the problem because it was just an easy way. But this is, there's so many different ways to do stuff, you know, there's lots of different techniques and that's the cool thing about knitting and crocheting and sewing. It's like we will never know all of it. There's always more to learn. Yeah, exactly. So, now remem just remember when you're switching over, you don't want to confuse the 22 balls that are the same color. Keep one on one side of the pink and one on the other side. And you're gonna bring that pink up here across the back of your needle and then you're gonna pull that up so a cross is over and then you will knit across, kind of trapping that in place. Ok. So this is what it's starting to look good, kind of pull on things to get rid of that little hole there. And yes, it might be driving you nuts that these things are hanging out out front. I'll show you that in just a second. You could just coming out the front because like you said, you could hold it and kind of pull it because sometimes in the back there's 37 strands happening, there's too much back there. And that's a really does not matter where it's hanging out for right now, you just poke it back through the back and weave it in it. Yeah, exactly. Oh, I love that. All right. So, here we got a little further on our project. So this was the end, this was the last row of, um, where I just worked in Tarsia and then at this point, this, on our chart, we're gonna be working across row 11 here. So this is where we, we need that extra color of the gold right here and it seems so crazy to have three balls of gold just for like a couple of little stitches in here. So that's stitches. That's where I just went ahead and I stranded it. You can do it either way. It doesn't matter if there's lots of ways to do it. You could also use a duplicate stitch and I, I um I think I put a link in the download for that in case this is just managing all these yarns is too crazy. You could definitely do, do do a duplicate stitch instead where you're just stitching on top of, oh said that she said I would probably just use the chart to do a duplicate stitch. So absolutely, you can totally do the duplicate stitch and that would actually make the heart a little bit more three dimensional and Puffy. So that's a variation of this to say, hey, I'm gonna do an in one and then a duplicate stitch and that would give variation. Yep. Mhm. Yep. I like it. Yeah, that's a great option too. OK. So here we are working those four stitches in this color. So we've got four and that's about as many as I would want to do. Um because before switching to the next color, because that's gonna make your float kind of long, longer than that, it just starts to be too long. Um So then you can just sort of drop the pink down there, bring this across knit one stitch in that new color and you can drop that collar down and pick up the pink and then knit your way across to your next color change and then you'll, you'll pick up the, the sort of brownish color again, mustardy kind of brown color. The thing that I'm noticing on this back, one that you have finished is that isn't that much slack even right here. It's not really a big deal. Actually, it's, it is a good solution because otherwise it's one more tail or one more and there's just too many, I would just feel like something as little is too fiddly to have too many different balls of yarn going agreed like it. I like it. So there. So you just can go ahead and strand, you know, the next row as well. And then you're just gonna go ahead and drop that lighter color and then work your way through, finishing off with three rows of the seed stitch and then you're gonna bind off in pattern, which we kind of already talked about when we talked about the ribbing, you're gonna bind off, you know, start out with making the knit stitches. Uh um You know, it'll be net pearl net, pearl net pearl as you bind off just in the same thing. So, yeah, I love it. So that is, that one might be my favorite square. I'm not gonna lie. It's so cute. It's so you're gonna get some in your hat because we're exchanging. How often can we just notice that this is looking very lovely together. Very cute. I just stole one of them and started putting it together going. What is this looking? So cute? All right. So this next square, this is just a garter stitch stripe square and we're going to be just working back and forth and turn rose and garter stitch is super simple. And this would be a square if you wanted to customize it for someone who's like really new to knitting, they can do it in a solid color or they can choose a color that, you know, a yarn that changes colors. Um, you, you don't need to do the stripes. The thing with the stripes is they're easy to do except you end up with a lot of yarn tails to even in and the way that I designed this was that at least you're switching off between one kind of main color and then another stripe of another color. So you have quite a few less yarn tails to weave and then if you changed it every single rose, which would be just crazy. Um It's just something to keep in mind. You can definitely do wider stripes here. Maybe you could just do one stripe through the middle or you can stripe, you know, two of one color, two of a second color and only use those two colors and you can just kind of carry it up the side and then you don't have to worry about all that stuff. Um I was trying to kind of gather in a bunch of different colors into one square for a couple of the squares in the hat because I thought it would be nice to tie things together a little bit. Um But yeah, no big deal. If you don't want to do it that way, that's completely fine. Um, so I am going to, let's see, let me just grab the cool thing too is I'm seeing all the little pieces and I feel like I noted that with my fabric as well. It's, this is such a scrap buster like you don't need yardage by any stretch of the imagination to make any of these squares work. The main thing is like the bulk of the square itself, but everything else is, it's really just little tiny, little tiny bits here and there and you, you know, you could use all the, you know, you don't even have to have like in my hat. I had the same colors running through all the squares, but you're gonna exchange it anyway. You could just use a little here and there and, you know, it doesn't really matter, especially with whites and grays and more neutrals. Just throw it in there and get rid of it and make it more All right. So I've already done my cast on again, the German twisted cast on. I use that throughout this project just to, you know, kind of keep things simple. Um, but you can use a different cast on if you want to. And then I only cast on and then I stopped at that point, I did not knit, knit a row yet. I just cast on and then I'm going to switch to this next color and I'm just knitting all the way across and the way I just wanted to show you a couple of things when you're, when you're adding a stripe, I like to hang on to that beginning, yarn tail in the end to keep it a little tighter as I put my needle through. Because otherwise, if you're just trying to knit into it, it's like, oh yeah, and it becomes so loosey goosey. So I just kind of wrap my fingers around that and then go ahead and knit it, you know, kind of maintaining a little bit of tension on that. So I'm gonna go ahead and knit back and forth here, two rows and then I will switch to the next color if any, I just want to point out too if I feel like if any of these stitches are feeling tricky. If we're new to any of this, there's a whole entire library of all the things on either the, the crochet corner or the knitting circle around craft so that you can kind of a national sewing some stuff on it. Exactly. The embroidery. That is another thing that could be really linked to an embroidery video in the, in the pattern. So at the very end of this kind of very long pattern, there is quite a few links that are um so you don't have to search, you know, go in the search boxes, but there's quite a few links to some of these more basic things or hey, I need a refresher or hey, I have this little idea how do I make that work or? Hey, this is another variation. So feel free to scroll all the way through all those pages to the very end, right? Yeah. Yeah. And we kind of touched on this before, but I also wanted to mention you can absolutely customize these squares like however you see fit as long as they end up being a finished measurement of 3.5 inches, then you can, you can make this a sampler hat. You can be like, oh, I really want to learn how to do this other stitch pattern. Just make a small swatch of it sample and use it in your head. Why not? Like this could be a swatch hat? Really? Um OK. So I have worked two rows of that color and then I'm gonna go ahead and cut that because even if I'm gonna use it again later, the way that I, well, unless you're gonna go back and forth just between these two colors, then leave it hanging and you can just keep carrying it up your work. Um, but I would just cut this off at this point if you're gonna do this sort of random striping that I did where you just kind of, um, use one main color and go back and forth between the main color and then adding all the other colors in there. So then we would go ahead and just bring up that yarn and let's see. And it doesn't really matter which way, whether it's in the front or in the back. But I would, I would be every time to twist it as long as you just kind of remember if it's front or back. Um I'm bringing that to the back because I think it'll be a little easier later when I weave in my ends, I already have it around that and then it'll kind of cover that up. But however you want to do it. But just kind of the, my theory for lots of things in crocheting and knitting is if you, if you're consistent with it, it usually looks better. OK. This is, this is a question I ca I thought of with consistency because I have a lot of knitting friends. And what if you have different sort of tightness of knitting because I have one friend in particular that knits very tight and it's beautiful, but it's way tighter than mine. So I would have. So, is that where you would maybe say, all right, hey, adjust it and add more stitches because it doesn't matter the number. But it's more the size of the square in the end of that, the size of the square is more important. But you can easily adjust the size of your squares in knitting and crocheting by using larger hooks or larger shes. So you can, I would definitely try that first, but sometimes you might be using a yarn that maybe you haven't. And it's the perfect color and it isn't really the right fit, then you can kind of tamper around with how many stitches. So, especially for something like this, I mean, needs to be as long as you make it about the size, it is your gauge, right? So like if you were working in the garter stitch back and forth, you could easily add or subtract stitches and you can just continue knitting until it is 3.5 inches tall. And especially for this square and then the single crochet square, which I'll show you in a little bit, you could just keep going until it's the right size. It doesn't have to end up exactly the same amount of s as I say. OK. Um OK. So that's all you do. You just go back and forth and back and forth and then you carry that main color up the side as you work and you just, um, throw in some new colors and as long as you're switching every two rows, that way you're gonna have your main color. Ready to go on the right side, you know, like ready to go at the front of your needles. Basically. I love it. All right. So, let's see. Ok. So, I've talked about the two knitted squares that we have in the hat and then Emily is gonna talk to us a little bit more about some sewing squares here. Yeah. So I talked a little bit about how this is such a scrap buster. I was telling Brenda before we started, I'm like, you know what, I didn't even have to cut into any of my big yardage. I was using all these random scraps. So, if somebody ever tells you not worth saving scraps, this will bust that right there because all I needed to do like this particular little piece of fleece. I saved it because I knew, gosh, darn it. I'm going to need it some day and it's a really great color and I can't just get rid of it because it's enough and sure enough, my little 23 and a quarter by three and a quarter square fits nicely in there to cut out. So the adjustment that's for the fabric piece of things is that your knitted and crocheted squares are going to end up at 3.5 by 3.5. When you're cutting your fabric pieces, you're gonna actually cut them three and a quarter by three and a quarter because we're adding a blanket stitch on the edge, which makes them a little bit bigger. And that blanket stitch is what's going to allow the attachment and give like a nice little seam and the whole deal. So three and a quarter by three and a quarter is all you need to do. Um for your actual fabric background, I'm gonna say, and then I just kind of was started playing with the idea of doing some applique. I love applique because I feel like it can be detailed, it can be not detailed, it can be fun, it can be graphic, it can be nothing particular other than some squares. And I wanted to use the colors and play on the colors because I thought, OK, if we have this beautiful finished hat, a lot of the knitting and the crochet has a lot of detail in it because you see the, you know, the young weaving. So I wanted to do something a little bit more graphic. So I have a handful of these right here and they're all similar. This is just checkers where I use these extra little scrappy squares. I have love with a heart as those all obviously Xoxo and then just a normal heart. So I'm going to show you this kind of basic heart and I'm going to just give a little bit of variation. But like I said, all I did was cut a three and a quarter by three and a quarter background. This is a little bit stretchy. It's not super stretchy because it is. I think it's the 8020 felt yar wool felt where it's 80% wool and 20% polyester. The one thing I would say is don't use 100% wool, 100% wool, it won't stretch and your hat will be like kind of weird on your head. So try not to use 100% wool. I made one out of felt actually, this is like 100% wool felt. This is not stretchy at all, but I found it is ok for doing the details because this still has wiggle movement and stretching 100% acrylic or 100%. This is 100% the ST acrylic yarn stretches because it pulls part of, I mean, maybe you probably could use that also. Right? Acrylic felt, I feel like that. I don't know, it's crunchy. I don't know. I feel like I feel like you just kind of have to pull on your felt and see how it feels. And if you, if you really hard, this will move polar fleece or this knitted fabric, I use this in this square and it wasn't really thick enough. So I just kind of doubled it up here. You just want to pick something that is not going to fray is kind of the main thing and an extra stretch is great, especially if you were planning on doing the entire hat, then you're relying completely on your sewn squares to do the stretching. So you gotta make sure that it's gonna stretch a little bit. If you're throwing in some sewn squares in amongst knitting and crocheting, you don't have to worry as much about it because the knitting and the crocheting is gonna stretch. All of the knitted and crocheted squares that I have here are quite stretchy. So they'll kind of like they'll absorb the stretch. Yeah. Yeah. This is a polar fleece that I think if you give it the wiggle, maybe I'm just going to call it the wiggle. If you give it the wiggle test and you see that if I were to yank really hard, you could kind of manipulate the form of it. That means it's going to work. And all of these worked. I just tested 100% wool on top of 100% wool felt and it felt really stiff, like it felt like it wouldn't match. I don't know. Maybe you could do a whole 100% wool hat, like wool felt hat. I don't know. I just didn't love it. I personally just didn't love it, but I think that would take a little bit of dabbling and a little bit of the shape of it would be more rigid. I would say more like, I don't know, have fun with it all. I just say hot your background fabric three and a quarter by three and a quarter. And then I, what I would say is imagine in your brain that this is a tiny little canvas that you wanna make something beautiful on and something that's very valentines. So it could be something as a little heart and that is one I'm to start with here. So mix and match your materials. This could be a puffy little um fleece heart, which is what I'm going to put on because I want to add more dimension. So we have variety than just the two kind of layers. I really always, I think about um contrast a lot when I'm making or when I'm even painting and I like the contrast of how it would feel, how it would look or how it would um maybe aesthetically look like how it would look visually and then look as a part of the whole. And this, I love this, but this is two of the same fabrics put together, which just means it's kind of a little flat. I like it. I wanna play around with this kind of puffy on here. Now, it may be that it doesn't look that great, but I want to give it a try because I want that kind of contrast. So go back to your art days in elementary school and cut yourself a little heart. And if you want to cut a ton of 3.5 by three or three and a quarter, by three and a quarter squares and then cut your designs from there, please do that. I don't feel like I'm as precise um with, I'm gonna move some of this stuff out of the way because I feel like it's all right here. I'm not that precise because I just kinda wanna cut and see. So know when you're kind of thinking about these squares that we have to do our blanket stitch around the edge. To me, this looks like it's far too close to the edge. So I'm going to make it a little bit smaller, but I already like how puffy it is. So just give it a little trimming trim and um I'm going to say this too because I'm not going to demo all of the, the things I've done over here because I just wanted to give you some inspiration. But if you're doing um words or letters or something that needs to be a little more precise. Ha ha. There we go. I like to cut things down and lay them out first to see if the spacing and the sizing works. So this is how I made my checkered and that's how I made my Xoxo. So you can either go kind of willy nilly like I just didn't cut it out of a bigger piece or you can kind of work from the squares however you feel like you work have at it. I'm going to use um uh because this is, this is thicker again, thinking kind of of my contrast. This is just my thought pattern. Take it or leave it for this because both of these were the same weight. I decided to do something a little bit thicker to use the yarn. I'm gonna actually use thread for this because I've already a demoed how to use, um, a blanket stitch on with yarn. And I'm in a demo here just how to do a blanket stitch with this thread really quick. This is just quilting thread. It's pretty tight, pretty, pretty thick. I know you can hear it. Um, everybody has their opinions on what brand they love. I like the brand that's on sale typically because that's just a brand. I know the sale brand is what works really well for me. Um, I'm sure there's rhymes or reasons to always use cotton or I'll always use polyester. I don't know what that would be. So I like to use my pinchers a lot when I'm applic. I don't know if that's an exact technique, but I like to use my pinchers which means I pinch my fabric. If you would rather use pins and pin things in place. You can, I feel like I poke my fingers all the time when I'm using pins because I'm moving around. I don't know about you. I just can't do it. I'm not much of a pinner unless I really have to pin. Then I do it. The cool thing about Felton wool is it's kind of like those old felt boards that you used to maybe have in school that we had, you know, like making up little stories and things where, like, oops, it sticks to one another. So it's not like two slippy fabrics like lycra or anything like that. Like, they're not slippy. So I'm just anchoring my stitch on the back really quickly. When I anchor stitches, I like to make an X and then go back. So it goes this way, this way and then go back the first way just because I don't like having the big bulky knot. So a blanket stitch on top of a blanket stitch that's not on the edging is the same as our other edging. Did I say, wait a blanket, a blanket stitch that's on top of two things that are not on the edge where the edge is lining up is the same. I think a blanket stitch in the same way. Yes, that's what I'm trying to say. So I'm going to demo a running stitch instead because there's a few pointers that I feel like have worked for me that I've worked out. So what I again, I like to go from top to bottom. That's just a preference I have when I'm doing a running stitch, the same thing is true from your blanket stitch where your tension and how, how wide everything is, is what's gonna make it consistent. I used to do um, blanket or running stitches where like your edge was all the way to the side and the one tip that I'm gonna have for you, that, that kind of changed the way that I did a running stitch where I'm putting two things on top of each other is come up through both of your fabrics like this right here. And then when you, when you're going back down, angle your needle and go underneath this first fabric, I'm doing this in white because I want you to be able to see. But what that does is it's grabbing my heart and my underneath fabric and kind of like pulling it nice and tucked on the side. Now, you may say, OK, but that kind of does the same thing as when you're um bringing your yarn or your needle way over here. That's fine. If you want that graphic element of a stitch, I like to, to, to angle my needle and go underneath because what I feel like that does is it, it, it gives the essence of a blanket stitch on top of like it finishes the edge a little bit more, which is what I like about the blanket stitch if that makes sense. So, and if you notice I'm using white thread, but I'm losing my color. I'm not seeing, there's no contrast with that and there's no kind of obviousness of this stitch which I like, which is a difference. Whoops than this. So the same applique, same idea of applique. This one I'm using, I'm kind of highlighting the puffiness of this fabric, both with the fabric I'm choosing and the stitch I'm choosing. This shows the stitch and makes it look more patchwork. It's all kind of the idea. It's all the same idea, just a little bit different material and different kind of motivation behind it. So to applique V on, you'll just go all the way around the edge. And if you are involving little kids in this, this could be a really fun, easy piece for them just to applicate because it gets them working with needles in a safe way because you're there to help. It gets them learning about tension and how hard to pull the yarn or the thread and it gets them kind of working on consistency in stitches, consistency in um how far apart they are, how close together they are. And my daughter is starting to hand sew a lot and it's so fun because it's easy to kind of like, oh no, Esther, get that a little bit closer together or whatever, but she's just so proud of it. It's so instant for kids, which is really fun and even teenagers. I mean, this is an easy way to get them involved. Um Another thing I wanna point out that I did and if you have a galentine's night that you're thinking of right now that you're like, heck, I have a lot of friends but not every single one of them are crafty. I would say that's 100%. OK, because this is an easy stitch. So this could be a good challenge for them is just to do a quick applique stitch to do, right? See really quick applique. The other thing I want to point out is this square right here. Applique doesn't have to be son on for this one right here. This Xoxo I thought, OK, I'm going to do something a little bit more detailed. It kind of would have been annoying to go around this Xoxo with an apple K. I would have done it because I did it with this love right here. But if you're feeling like I just don't have friends that want to be doing this and getting them to cut out the squares is enough for them, still invite them, still invite them to come. Um This isn't a super crafty option, but it is an option because you might think to yourself. I can just get on my hot glue gun and I'm going to say no, please don't. I love hot glue just like the next person, especially for paper and cardboard, for fabric. It's tricky because hot glue is essentially melted plastic and then it's a, it doesn't stretch but b it's going to be a gloppy. It's going to be hard. It dries hard, hard, hard. So these are the two glues. It's just like a fabric glue. There's probably a million other options out there that have stretched to them. A lot of fabric glues are one of two ways. This one is a little bit more liquidy so it isn't as good on felt because I feel like it soaks in. This one is like tacky, which is amazing because it grabs and grips and I've used them in the past. One of them is a foam and felt glue. The other is just a regular fabric glue. Most fabric glues are permanent. There's also options for those fabric tapes that are like, I don't know, like a sticky tape that have stretched to them or even a wonder under which is an iron b you just have to be careful that you don't have a polyester blend that you want to. But I have to say I don't want what we're doing to discourage some people. We don't want to a our friends who are a little bit afraid of crafting and as much as I would love to just be the person that barges into your room and says, no, everybody can be crafty and encourage all of our friends that feel like they're not crafty. I do understand limitations and feeling confident in what you're doing and having a good time and not being stressed and maybe it's just not everybody's thing. And that totally. Ok. Ok. Yeah. So I just kind of get back on the applique train here if you feel like, oh, my gosh. Yes. I love the crocheting. I love the knitting. I want to kind of design my own squares with my own personality. I feel like Apple K is the way to go because I was able to take the idea of applique, whether it's with a chunky stitch or a simple stitch and make it into this love one. I just did this quick kind of graphic checker thing. I did the Xoxo. I mean, you could do tons of little hearts to make a little checkered heart pattern. I feel like you could an initial like if this is for, I don't know or a logo because you all went on vacation together and you want to celebrate your amazing trip as friends or something. Whatever it is applique is the way I feel like really super duper to customize, you can really express yourself 100% 100% and it's simple running stitches and blanket stitches to me that work out great. So I just was thinking more about the blanket stitch around the edging versus applic a piece on with the blanket stitch. And I just wanted to show one other option of doing the blanket stitch. So I've got my little piece prepped here. I just did one stitch right there at the center of my heart and I'm coming out right on that side because I'm gonna be working around this way and you can go either way with blanket stitch. Um I'm gonna go through here and then I'm gonna pop my needle out just above where that fabric is. So it's not going through here twice. It's just going through there once and then I'm gonna tuck it on top of that strand of yarn. Just make sure your needle comes out on top of that strand of yarn. That's the loop essentially that you're putting it through. So just like that, you can make a blanket stitch and I'll do that just one more time here. We'll go through here and then we'll come out just barely above it and make sure you, you know, make sure you are on top of that strand and then as you pull it, that will be your blanket stitch. And so that's, that's just creating a nice edging. Um You know, if you want to cover up the very edge of that felt or whatever your fabric is, um then using the blanket stitch is really nice for that on this hat. I just wanted to show you really quickly one little thing. So I had used, this is kind of a thinner knit. This was a purchase knit. I know it looks like hand knitting, but it totally does not. It's like you knitted something. And then no, it is a purchased fabric. It's much like this one. Actually, I think it was in the same section. It looks like, you know, fake knitting on an actual knit fabric, but it was so thin that and then like the edge of it was kind of coming up. I did not like how that looks. So I do have a little note in the pattern explaining that if you, if you're using a thin piece like this, like a thin knit and you wanna make that as your applique, you can do a little running stitch about, you know, a quarter or an eighth inch away from the edge and that helps you turn your fabric around it. So if you did a little running stitch, you could turn your fabric and that way you have a turned edge that you could blanket stitch down instead of that raw edge that was causing you problems. So that's just another option, another little troubleshooting thing. Um There's a little note in the pattern about that too. So I just do the cool thing is, is as I was kind of finding all these various fabrics for this project. It is cool. How many fabrics are out there and how many reusable because you're the one who had mentioned the, the reusable filed sweater or whatever. There's a lot of, a lot of fabrics that don't fray the edges. And I've always been in the camp of everything phrase. That's why I like felt and it's so much more beyond felt like all the knitted knit and stuff, the knit fabric, which includes polar fleece and, and there's lots of options, like lots of options. Ok. Um Are you still talking about? No, I think, I, I think I'm gonna that. Ok. All right. So let's talk about the crochet squares. Next. Um, we've got, this is just a single crochet. This is a very basic stitch, very, very basic. I wanted to put this in here because it's so simple. This would be like a really good beginner. Like if you have a beginner in your group of friends and you want to teach someone how to crochet, I can just make this square, right? And then, and then I'll teach you how to do this is just called surface crochet, which is almost the same thing as a chain stitch embroidery. It's almost exactly the same. So, I mean that it was a chain stitch. I mean, it is that you do it with a crochet hook but like what you're actually doing where the yarn is going. It, it like it is a chain stitch just doing, it's the surface crochet. So I'll show you guys how to do that too. So, all right, just to get started. If we've got some newer crocheters who want to learn how to do single crochet. I'm making quite the yarn title over here. Look at this This is great. This is how good. Just cut the yarn, Brenda, just cut the yarn, just cut the, just do it. If I was at home, I'd be untangling this. I actually secretly kind of enjoy untangling yarn. I know that makes me, you're amazing. All right. So to start, oh, I want to mention too for this project, the one of the crocheted squares as well as the, the band that we already talked about, the ribbed band that is made with the A G hook, which is a four millimeter hook. And because I wanted this, this square, you know, it has different stitch anatomy. The are different. It's a different size and I wanted it to be nice and stretchy. So I made it with a larger hook. This is an eye hook, which is a 5.5 millimeter hook. All right. So just to do regular single crochet work back back and forth and turn rows, we're going to create a little loop like this and we're going to flip that loop over onto the strand connected to the ball. We're gonna place our hook underneath that strand and then I'm placing my finger here where everything crosses to tighten that up and you want your loop to be loose enough that it can slide back and forth, but you don't want it to just fall off your hook. That's, that's kind of what I tell newer crocheters. All right. So we're going to start with a chain, which is how almost everything starts. So you'll wrap the yarn around the hook, you're gonna go from back to front and down like that and then you're going to use your hook to pull it through that loop. So if you're newer to crochet, it really helps to watch someone do this for a while and watch. I mean, people crochet differently. I'm the way that I crochet is not necessarily the way that you're gonna end up crocheting. Um However you can hold the hook, however, feels comfortable, whatever is good for your hands, whatever gets you the right stitches, that's the right way to do it. So, um, but sometimes when you're starting, it's a little overwhelming and you, you're like, I, I wish I had three hands. I don't know how to hold this thing on my book and move it through there. Um If you're feeling like you wish you had three hands, just pay attention to how like when I'm switching my hands back and forth, the whole different parts of the yarn. So right now I'm gonna wrap that around the hook. Now, I just switched from holding this chain in my hand as well as the hook, passed it over to that hand and then I'm gonna pull through, switch it back, yarn over, switch it back, pull through. So this is one way to get started. You don't, you don't necessarily need to do this. I don't really do that. I just kind of do this usually, but there's lots of different ways to hold things. Um, you know, just try out some different things. Watch some different videos of different people crocheting that can also help to. Ok. So let's see. We're chaining 12. Let me double check. I think it's 12, but I don't wanna tell you the wrong thing. Let's see. Single crochet. Heart square. Ok. Oh chain 13, I almost told you the wrong thing. We're gonna end up with 12 stitches when we work back and forth and 14 rows. Ok. So let's see how many we have here. 123456789, 1011, I'm gonna remove one stitch there that back on my hook and now we're gonna start working across the chain. So this is the top of the chain. It has all these little vs and they're all stacked up. We're gonna roll that over. So we're looking at the bottom of the chain and there's all these little horizontal dashes here. We're gonna skip the first one because that's just a turning chain. We're not gonna work into it. A turning chain is just sort of think of it as like a ladder to get you up to the next to the next level. So we're gonna skip that little stitch or that little um horizontal dash. We're gonna go underneath the second one here and we're gonna yarn over pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through two. Ok. We're gonna do that all the way across into each of these little horizontal bumps. Insert, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over and pull through two insert. You aren't over, pull up a loop. You aren't over. Pull through two. You're giving this gap sweater a new life. Yes, it's great. It wanted to be a hat. It did. It told me that when I was at the thrift store it was like, I'm sacredly a hat. I love it. Yeah, I saw it and it had like a little hole in it and it also had a little tiny stain. The rest of it looked great and I like it because nobody is gonna buy this. It was, you know, at the, nobody's gonna buy this, it's gonna get thrown out and I could reuse that yarn and it, you know, I got a lot of yarn for $3. Right. Yeah. Think about that. That's, that's not that I needed more yarn. I certainly did not. But it was the idea of the thing. I didn't, I don't know. I like to keep things out of landfills and give it a new life. All right. So we made it to the very last dash across the back of our chains and then we're gonna make a chain one. So that means we just wrap the yarn around the hook, pull that through, then we're gonna turn this, like we're turning a page in a book, just flipping it over so we can work across the backside. OK? And then we're just gonna insert our hook here. This is a turning chain. So we're not gonna work into that sometimes, you know, just future note for the newer crocheters. Sometimes we work into our turning chain. Sometimes we do not. Um, we don't usually do that at the beginning of a row, but sometimes um at the end of the row, when you get to the turning chain from the previous row, you'd work into it. But in this pattern, we are not ever working into it. So you just make the turning chain and then forget you did it and you forget about it. You ignore it. OK? So we're gonna work underneath that first stitch. You're an over, pull up a loop, you're an over, pull through two, just a regular single crochet all the cro all the way across into each stitch across. So we're working underneath both of those loops that V to work all the way across. Just like that. This is the most basic crochet. Stitch. Really? Almost, almost everyone starts out. Oh, look, I, I can do crocheting with another color we see in there. This is why you should keep your place neat and tidy when you're working. Although that could have been pretty, I don't know, maybe add that extra color in there. It's a new, it's a new square. All right. So you get to the end chain, turn your work single crochet all the way across. So that is all you are doing OK for 14 rows of single crochet. And let me show you what that'll look like. Oh, we're almost, I think I stopped a couple stitches away from the end here. Um, that looks really like, just pretty. Yeah, I mean, it's so simple and that's the thing is like when I first started learning how to crochet, I learned the basic stitches and then I just wanted to move on to everything else. And I sort of like, just forgot about regular single crochet because I used all these other variations which I still love. But now I'm like, you know what, I like the look of it. And I do think that the success of this project is a, of course, the camaraderie of it, but the variety is really cool. That's the whole quilting bee idea, right from a long time ago, is the variety of not only the way people are making them, but the stitches and the techniques and it's like the finished beanie is greater than the sum of its parts or whatever you point that on a pillow. Right. Exactly. OK. So this is how you can count your stitches. So I, I see these little grooves here and that, that is every other, every other row, I mean, counting a row. So in case you don't know how to count rows. This would be two rows, 468, 1012 and 14. We're working on the 14th row, but really, the rows don't matter as much as just the size of it. So you just can keep crocheting until it measures 3.5 inches tall and 3.5 inches wide. All right. So there is the end and we are going to just go ahead and cut our yarn and then we just draw that through that very last loop to finish it off and then we have our square. All right. And so the next thing we're gonna do is make that surface crochet. And I, you can choose whether you wanna use, um, for this, I use a double strand because I wanted it to just be a little bit more bold and I was using a thinner yarn here. Um But you can certainly just use one strand. It does, it does not matter. Let's see, I'm gonna pick a dark color so you guys can see a little better. It'll contrast a little better, I think. Well, this will probably contrast. OK? And maybe you can see the color better or see the new color better. All right. So, um, you can go ahead and just eyeball this if you're a good eyeball with hearts or you can get a wash away or fade away marker and draw it on there. So I'm going to do that because I think it's just a little easier, especially if you're first starting out. Um, I kind of like to make my hearts a little lopsided and look a little more like hand drawn, you know, not so perfect for this one. I thought that was fun. Um, but you can certainly make them right side up. We can try that here. So this marker is gonna fade away later. You don't have to worry about it. I love those markers. I've set of those at my house, but this will give me a little map of where to sew. I hope you guys can see that. It's kind of the bumpy texture makes it a little tricky. But you can, I I can see if you don't have those markers, chalk works and chalk, especially if you have like a darker color that'll show up really well. Or if some, you can get chalk in like a yellow or, you know, some other kind of color, you don't use brown, brown stains, chalk, never, you know that you live and learn, you live and learn sometimes. Now we know. Um OK, so you're gonna put your, your um contrasting color behind your work. So if this is the front side, which, by the way, it doesn't matter which, whichever side looks better to you is the front and then you're just gonna insert your hook. Um I start at the bottom of the point of the heart but you can start anywhere really. And then you're just going to grab that yarn with your hook and you're gonna pull it up to the top surface. Now, you're just gonna be inserting your hook every so often. You don't have a specific stitch to go into. You just move it. That'll, that'll dictate how long your stitch is where you put your hook. I mean, if I put it way up here long stitch, you can see where we're so cool. You can see where we're going. This is, this is like, um, uh, double stitch stitching on top of knitting too. Similar idea. Yeah. Yep. Yep. You can do this. Yeah, you can definitely do this, um, on knitting or crocheting. So, if you just wanted to make a plain knit square, you could do the same thing, um, with a crochet hook, just pop it through. Ok. So we've got that yarn back there. We're gonna pull that up and we're gonna pull it through the loop on our hook and that first loop is a little loose because it's not actually attached to anything. Don't worry about it. I'm just gonna pull on it and make it a little smaller. Don't let it stress you out. All right. So we're gonna insert our hook again. I'm just kind of moving every, I don't know, maybe a little bit bigger than a quarter of an inch away. And I'm just going through grabbing that yarn with my hook and pulling it up. So I've got my hand back here and I can put a little tension on there and I, you know, after you do this for a while, you can loop it over your hook without even being able to see it because you, you feel that tension and you can feel it on your hook. Um But when you're first starting, you know, definitely just, you know, turn your work upside down so you can see it as your, as you are pulling it through. So this is a great way to add, you know, fun little details to stuff. You could put an initial, you know, you could do a star would be cute to match Emily's sweater. I didn't wear a heart sweater. Guys, I wore a star sweater maybe next time. Ok, so we got around to that little point in our heart and I like to kind of pull on this just a little tighter here to tighten that last stitch because it seems like it helps me get the point of the heart nice and shiny and then I'm going to go back up here. See it's working out that is such a cool way to so and another thing I had thought of um was it would be fun to do this in a bunch of colors, like a heart, a color inside of another color would be cute or you can make a rainbow with it. I mean, that would be fun too. It's just, and this is just if you're a crocheter already, um, this would definitely be faster than doing an embroidery chain stitch, I think, unless you're very fluent in embroidery chain stitches, then maybe that could be faster. But it feels like less. I don't know. For me it feels a little bit less because you're going from front to back and flipping less because with chain stitches, I mean, I guess you really, I mean, it just, yeah, it depends on how, maybe I shouldn't have said that. Maybe that's not true for everybody. But for me, even though I've been, I've been sewing since I was like four and, but doing a chain stitch, doing chain stitch, embroidery, it's not hard and it's fun. Um, but for me, this is just a little quicker and I don't know, look at how fast that was. All right. So when you get to the end you might be like, what are we doing? How do we, how do we stop? How do we stop sewing? I mean, how do we stop making this chain stitch? All right. So, we're gonna cut, we're gonna cut our last strand and just completely pull it through like that and then we'll just put that on a needle, yarn needle. Oh, yeah. And poke it through the back and then we'll, we'll go underneath, there's a little way that you can. So if you take a look at how these stitches look. Your stitch comes out of the previous stitch loops around underneath the stitch in front of it and comes back down. If you just kind of look at the anatomy of that stitch, you're gonna repeat that here, you can go underneath those two loops like that and then back down into this place right here. Yeah. And voila and then you've just, and then it looks like it changed it and it looks like it didn't even end, right. So it just keeps going and then you can go ahead and weave in your ends and let me just talk about weaving and ends just really quickly. Um Because there might be some newer people newer to crocheting and knitting. Um When you're weaving in your ends, you wanna go in a couple of different directions because that really helps your yarn stay in place and don't be afraid of splitting through your yarns. I think most of us are taught like you kind of go through picking up some little loops here and there and that's totally fine. You can do it that way if it's something you're washing a lot, it's actually a good thing if your needle splits through the plies of your yarn. Um In most cases, it's a good thing um because it gets a little extra drag on your, on your yarn, it's a little extra friction and it won't pull out quite as easily. So, um then you can go ahead and weave in all your ends, including these ends as well. So that is that crocheted square and then we'll move on to the granny square, which is our last square to talk. Well, actually I forgot to do the lazy Daisy, which we'll jump back into, I think I'll do the, I think I'll do the granny square next and then we'll come back to the lazy Daisy. Sorry about that guys. I meant to do that. OK. So here we are working on some classic granny squares here because this is a hat and I, you know, we live in Minnesota. So it's just felt like I should make this warm enough for me to wear. Um I make, I usually make my granny squares without chains between these groups. And if you are a granny square maker, you might know what I'm, you might already know what I'm talking about where you make three double crochets and then a lot of times you'll chain one there and then do another three double crochets. I make it without my chains, there's lots of different, lots and lots of different ways to make granny squares. Um But that's the way that I normally do it. And I think the reason that I do that is because I'm looking for a more solid stitch pattern usually. OK. So I'm gonna start out with by chaining four and I'm gonna make a little circle to crochet into 123 and four. You may have noticed I switched back to my smaller hook. This is a four millimeter hook here. Then I'm going to slip stitch into the very first chain that I made to make that into a little circle. Then I'm going to chain 312 and three. And now, um, if you're newer to this, you don't need to worry about this part. But if you've been crocheting for a while, you may wanna try crocheting over like on top of this strand of yarn and I'll show you why a little bit later. All right, we're gonna make a two, double crochets. So we're gonna yarn over, insert into the middle of that circle, yarn over, pull up a loop, yarn over, pull through two yarn over, pull through two and I'm going to do that again, yarn over, insert yarn over, pull up, you aren't over, pull through two. Y aren't over, pull through two. Now, we've gotten to a corner. So we're going to chain 21 and two. And now we're gonna do three, double crochets. So I forgot to mention this beginning chain here. This actually counts as a double crochet right here. So now we're gonna do three, double crochets, one, two, three and then a chain 21 and two and then three more double crochets. One, two and three and then two more chains one and whoops, I kind of split my ear in there. One and two and then three more double crochets here, one, two, lost my, lost my yarn and three. All right. And now we are going to do two chains and join right here. Alternatively, you could also just do a half, double crochet into the top of that chain that also closes it off. But just for simplicity's sake, we're gonna do two chains, one and two. And then we're going to do a slip stitch joint into the top of those three beginning chains that we made. So that would be like the top of that pretend double crochet that we made right at the beginning. So we'll do a slip stitch there and then we'll cut our yarn. I love granny squares because it's lots of colors in square and it's just like the perfect project for using up scraps and combining CS and all that sort of stuff. So, yeah, so I, I just ended up pulling on this beginning yarn tail because I crocheted over it. And what that did was it made that circle a little bit tighter. Um You could also start with adjustable loop in the middle, but I really like starting with that chain because it's a little bit sturdier. And if you don't, if you can't crochet over that strand or you don't like crocheting over that strand, that's fine. You can just use a needle to weave that through all of those. Um The beginnings of those double crochets um, and then go ahead and weave that back and forth. You do that right away, usually just so that it's done like you, it in if you don't crochet over top of it, um, sometimes, sometimes I'm just lazy and I wait until it usually by the end of the square though, I weave in everything because if I move on to the next square and I have a bunch of things with ends, then, then you have 30 squares to weave in and that feels it's just too much. Yeah. OK. So to start the next color, we are going to start with that same slipknot, which is just um, we made the loop, flipped the loop over onto the strand, connect it to the ball and they're gonna put our hook underneath it, but I just like to pull it up. This is my quicker way of doing it, but you can do it the original way that I showed you if you're newer to it. Um And then we're going to go in here into one at any one of these corner spaces, those chain two spaces and you're just gonna yarn over and pull through that loop on your hook just to anchor the yarn. Now we're gonna do two chains, one and two and this is gonna count as the first double crochet of our round. OK. So we're gonna do two more double crochets into that same chain space. So there's one and two. And by the way, there is a link in the, in the pattern for um a video of me showing you how to make the same kind of granny square with color changes and everything in case you need a little more detailed explanation. All right, so we're gonna skip over these three double crochets and we're gonna put three double crochets in the next chain to space. So one, two and three and then we chain 21 and two. And then we're gonna cha uh make three more double crochets into that same chain two space one to three. Now we're gonna skip over these three double crochets and then we're gonna do three double crochets, chain 23, double crochets over here. So here's three double crochets. One, two, three. You are so fast and Shane too. I know I'm going a little, no, no, no, no, I'm saying it's just awesome to watch. Um And then three more double crochets. Normally, I don't like to do my demos quite this fast, but we're just putting so much stuff into the video. If people really are feeling like they want to hone in on this, there's a detailed video and these are the same stitches I already demonstrated down here. OK. So now here's another corner. So every time you get to a corner, you're gonna do that combination of three double crochets, then a chain two and then three double crochets into that corner. So one to three. Chain 21 and two. And then we're gonna do three more double crochets one two and three. And now we have almost completed our second round. We're going to finish up this corner. We only put three double crochets in it. So we're gonna add three more right here. One, two and three. And then we're gonna chain to one and two and then we are going to slip stitch into the top of that beginning chain two that we made that was taking the place of the first double crochet of our round. OK? And then we're gonna cut our yarn, which is good because there was kind of a little spot in my yarn right there. All right. So we finished round two. So round three is very similar to round two. We're gonna, again, start with that slipknot on our hook and we are going to go ahead and make a slip stitch. So we just insert our hook into any corner space, grab that yarn, pull through, pull through the loop on our hook. And now we're gonna chain 212. And this is gonna count as the first double crochet of the round. So we're gonna do two more double crochets into the same chain space one and you, then we're gonna skip across these three double crochets and you can see right here this is not a corner. So we're not gonna do two sets of those three, double crochets. We're just gonna do one set of three, double crochets. OK? No chain in between. We're just hopping right over there and we're gonna do three double crochets right here. One to three. Then we're going to hop to the next chain space and this is a corner space. So we're going to do three double crochets, one, two, three and then a chain two, that's the very corner and then three more double crochets one to three. OK? So this is not a corner. So we just put three double crochets right there between those two groups of three, double crochets. One two, three, skip to that corner. Three, double crochets, one to three chain 21 and two, three more double crochets. One, two, just keep making your square bigger. Yep. So you're just gonna continue your way around when you get to the corners. You do, you know those two groups of the three double crochets and then a chain two in between them. If you get to a space between those three double crochets here, three double crochets there, you just put three double crochets. OK? Um And there's no chaining except for at the corners. So just remember that and in this particular granny square, there's lots and lots of different ways to make granny squares. So after you get, after you've worked through round three, then you are going to do one round of single crochet and that just gives it a nice little border and it makes it the right size because this is just a little tiny, bit, too small. But if we add one more round of the, of the granny squares, then it seemed like it was a little too big. So let's see, we will add on, maybe we'll do this color. This will be pretty. So this color is a thinner weight yarn. Um I told you earlier, I was doing a little bit of cheating with my yarn and starting to use some yarns that were not a four, which is what I recommend in the pattern to use, uh a worsted weight yarn for everything. But you can get away with using a slightly thicker yarn, which is if it's a very lofty yarn, if you go down some hook sizes. So this yarn that I'm using here, it's actually what I made my sweater out of. Um, it's very, very fluffy and lofty and you can really, when you crochet it tightly, it doesn't get too stiff because it's so lofty. Um And this yarn, this is thinner, but I'm gonna be using it um, double stranded. So in that way, you can kind of maximize your, you know, use your yarn stash, what use, what you got. All right. So we're gonna start with a slipknot on our hook and in any co chain, um, in any chain, two corner space, you can just go right on in there and you can make a slip stitch join like this. There's, there's numerous different ways to start this. You can do a slip stitch join and then a chain one and begin your single crochets or you can do a standing single crochet, which is another option. So you've got your slip stitch on your hook and you can just go right in here and just make a single crochet. So you yarn over, pull up your loop, yarn over and pull through two and that just starts out your single crochet there. So that seems like a little bit less bulky, but it, it does take a little bit of um getting used to, to not have your yarn anchored first. So we're gonna add one more single crochet into that chain two space and now we're gonna make a single crochet into each of the stitches around. Well, each of the stitches to the next chain uh chain two space space, I should say. So the top of each stitch and don't forget to work into that chain, that beginning chain, which counts as a double crochet that needs a stitch as well. OK. So we're gonna continue just working our way over to the next corner making those single crochets one in each stitch across. Um If anybody has any lingering questions, please get them into the chat because we're gonna be wrapping up pretty soon here. The one thing I was thinking about too that I know we mentioned um as we were starting. If you're feeling like, hey, I want to do this project, but I'm not really maybe a hat person or maybe you never wear them like you 100% could use the same idea. You could make these into like a four square potholder. You could make them into a zipper potch, you could make them into a little purse, you can make them into a table runner or a bag or I mean, think of them as building blocks. You know, like Legos can make all kinds of cool structures and these are kind of like we are just like Lego builders, little squares you can add together and many, many different kinds of configure. I mean, you could make a sweater out of it. How cool would that be? Um I think my last live, I was wearing a granny square sweater that was just made with a bunch of squares mostly. OK. So I've gotten to my next corner and I'm gonna put four single crochets into that corner. So 12, three and fourth and then I'm gonna continue making sure you don't miss that first stitch right after that. You're just gonna be placing a single crochet into each stitch around. Yeah, that's the cool thing about making things in a modular way is you really, you can, you, you know, you could make all kinds of awesome things. Well, and that's where the, the fun of, you know, celebrating community and togetherness with the Galentine's idea for women. You're like, hey, I made this cool coin purse with my friends or it doesn't even have to be a hat. I mean, hats are very obvious for us because we wear them all the time for six months out of the year being in the north area, we do wear them a lot here. Yes. But you can definitely, you know, cha change up the squares. Maybe you live somewhere that's warm and you're like, I like the idea of a hat, but that looks really hot. Um You know, you can make some Lacy's squares as long as they're the right size, you can still put it together. You know, you can really change. I hope that people use this project as more of a jumping off point, but more of like a little inspiration. Um you know, to get together with your friends and make cool stuff or even just, you know, make cool stuff yourself. If you're not getting together with your friends, that's totally fine too. I mean, I, you know, I, yeah, we'll be your galentine. It's all good. I'm in all right. So I have made it almost all the way around. I've got just a couple more stitches here and then I will show you how we end off. We made it to the very last double crochet and now I have to do two single crochets into this last chain. Two space because that we had already placed two there, but we're supposed to have four in each corner. Ok. So we just had to finish that up. Then we'll cut our yarn and pull that right through your stitch and then we can go ahead and fasten this off to or you could have done a slip stitch. Sorry, you could have done a slip stitch to the next stitch, the very first stitch of the round if you wanted to or you can pull it through like I just did there. And then before you weave in your ends, you're gonna tuck that underneath that first chain. That was the very, sorry, not chain, first single crochet that we made like that. And then we're gonna go back down from the place it came out of and that makes that a very nice seamless seamless little join there invisible joint, I guess it's called and then you can go ahead and weave in your ends on the back of your work. OK. I got lots of ends to weave in here for the these granny squares. All right. So the last thing I wanted to show you guys was this lazy Daisy stitch in case you're newer to lazy Daisy stitch, embroidery. Let's see. I think I lost my bigger needle. So I'm gonna have one. I have one of your bigger needles. Oh OK. Actually, I got this one here. So this will be good. Oh, I used it on a different thing. That's where it went. All right. So to do the lazy daisy stitch, you can see that I have uh three stitches or three flowers already mostly constructed. I just have to make a French knot in the middle. So I end it off here and I'm going to kind of weave my way through because this fabric is doubled. I actually doubled this fabric if you are working with a polar fleece and it's thicker and it's only one layer, you may have to kind of fasten off here or you can kind of connect your way over there. If you don't mind having a couple of like a little bit of longer strands, you can kind of find your way over there, which is fine and you don't have so many ends to tie off and weave in and that sort of thing. So we're gonna come out right here and I'm gonna make a five pedal lazy daisy or, but you can make as many puddles as you want to. It. It really doesn't, it doesn't matter. All right. So this where I came out of, that's gonna be really close to the center of my flower. And if it helps you, you can go ahead and make a little dot Right in the middle where you're imagining there's some serious lint on there. Oh, I know the pillows. That's what I think I used it on that. Ok. That makes sense. OK. So, um, all right. So that's gonna be the center of my flower. So I'm gonna be stitching really close to it. I'm gonna put a stitch just a little ways away and I'm gonna pop up right here and that is gonna catch this strand. This is kind of like doing a chain stitch. Except you're just kind of letting it be a little bit loose. You don't pull too hard. Yeah. Don't pull too hard because that'll distort your work and it'll make it kind of like long, skinny, not very pedally shaped. So I'm gonna make a tiny stitch there just to anchor that loop. And then I'm gonna come out right next to where my peddle was before. So I'll do that. So that's gonna anchor my little pedal there and I'm gonna make my next pedal right over here. So I'm gonna go in pretty close to where I came out and then however long you want your puddle to be, you're gonna be taking a stitch and that's what's gonna anchor your puddle, the tip of your puddle like that. Here we go and we're gonna come out right here. Toya has one last quick question kind of demonstrating. Great. Will you go back and finish all of your squares or will you frog them? Is she wondering about this giant pile on the table? Maybe I don't know what frog frog frogging is like. So when you rip something out, you rip it rip it, rip it, rip it, rip it. That's like it's like knit or crochet or lingo for ripping it out. Um, I am going to be finishing these squares because Emily and I, this is a great segue. Yeah, for asking that Tala. Um, Emily and I are going to be hosting a Valentine's Day party in two weeks. I can't remember the 13th on actual, on actual Valentine's Day. Um, and so in that live event, we are going to be putting our hats together so you guys can see them totally finished what they look like. Um And then we're also gonna be doing some other fun things too. We're gonna be kind of celebrating with you guys because the idea here is that today, we're hoping to give you this inspiration. So if you wanna do something, you can pull your friends together and pull your, you know, text them, call them, email them, get zoom uh whatever, however you wanna do this and maybe plan out your color color palette, maybe start to get ideas going or maybe you're like, heck, I'm gonna buy everything and have a party on the 13th. I'm not really sure, but hopefully today is an inspiration for, for having the Galentine's party. And if you notice, actually, if you scroll all the way to the very bottom of this really long PDF that we have, that has all the very detailed instructions on our applique on our granny squares. On our crochet, on our knitting, on our ribbed um, bands, all of those things, all of those, all that pattern step by step is in that PDF. But at the very bottom of it is a lot of other things that we have taught before or that we have done before. That is in um, either in craft scene National Sewing Circle, National Knitting Circle Crochet corner. So if you're like, hey, I really wanna do this, but I also wanna have friendship bracelets available or I wanna have make some pillows, lip pillows or zipper pouches or something as a little kind of takeaway for your friends. There's a lot of other ideas in there to just get the inspiration going for whatever Gallentine party that you plan or kind of are dreaming up or whatever you feel like you wanna do. Yeah. So, yeah, so you can check that out and see like maybe you just wanna keep it simple and you just wanna send someone a Galentine's day gift or something like that and you know that you might even just use that for inspiration. You don't have to be making this beanie to appreciate what's at the end of the, of the PDF. Um Yeah, so there's, there's lots of stuff in there. All right. So I have gone all the way around made all my little petals there and now I'm just gonna make a French knot for the, just for the middle and that cut and so you can go ahead and knot this on the back or you can do the Emily method where you're making a, a little X um or just stitching in a couple of directions like this, that's even enough to hold it there. And if you are worried about you're not going through to the front, you can always like anchor it in a larger stitch and then you can undo that stitch later and tie it to the end at the end of your French knot too. So OK, I'm going to be a tail or something. I'm going to be pushing this up so that I can stitch in from the front. Here, shots are so fun. The loopy, loopy. I know it is fun. It makes such a nice little cute little knot. All right. So we're just taking a really tiny stitch here, just a very small stitch and then we're going to wrap our yarn around a couple of times. I'm going to do four times just because, because that sounds good. Um If you wrap it more, it becomes a larger knot, but it also sometimes gets a little unwieldy and sometimes does surprising things unwieldy. So here we have them, I've kind of bunched them all up right next to the fabric and I'm going to gently put my fingers on that. I'm still allowing my needle to slip through, but I'm holding on to those to keep them down there in that place until I get that pulled through that. And then we may and then we're just going to take stitch right back down as to where we came from just like that. And then we have an adorable little flower center. So I would do that for all the rest of these little lazy daisies. I just wanted to make sure that you saw this little embroidery. I'm sorry, I didn't do it in the embroidery section. I forgot, but it is in this lazy Daisy stitch is featured in the picture of the, the pattern there. So, all right. So I think that's it. Unless we have any, we don't have any other questions. A lot of people are very inspired, which I really am excited about. So, I mean, I think all in all we can agree that I hope that this, this is like you said, a jumping off point for however you want to spend your Valentine's Day or even just started thinking about gifts or something. But there are ideas in the end like Emily said, for throwing a Valentine's Day party. There's like spa ideas, there's movie night ideas, there's crafty night, of course ideas. And then in case some of you guys are like, what is this Galentine's Day? This is a little late to be talking about this after we had just had this live two hour event. But if you've never heard of Galentine's Day before, until you have this. It's like, yeah, getting together with your girlfriends. And it started out because there was a character in a show called Parks and Rec, which I love that show. There's a character called Leslie Nope. And she just was like Valentine's Day for her, for her friends. And so, um I actually put a link to that to youtube. So you can see a little snippet of that little section above and beyond with little poems and she's raf, she's so crafty that like she, she makes these elaborate crafted presents for everybody. So I just absolutely embrace that whole idea of celebrating with your friends and making stuff for everybody. So, with everybody. So mark on your calendars for the 13th because we will finish this all together. It would be Emily and I will be here again. We would love it. If you guys would join us, bring your friends, it'll be awesome. Have on your TV. OK. Maybe don't do that. All right. Awesome. Thanks for joining us today. Happy, almost Galentine's. Thanks so much inspiration. Bye.