Waching daily Jun 6 2018

hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world and it's time for another way back

Wednesday now today's video is crazy you know you just never know what's gonna

hit and what's not gonna hit but this little video has 1.3 million views as

we're filming this way back Wednesday part that's right 1.3 million views for

a toilet paper tube knitting loom so check it out right now and see why it

has 1.3 million views I can't tell you why but that's why you got it as our way

back Wednesday

hi I'm Sophie and welcome to my world you know when I was a little kid my

grandmother was an amazing knitter she used to make all kinds of things

afghans hats you name it and I was always really intrigued by what she did

but she never taught me how to do it and then as I got older and I started doing

parties the kids would do this thing they called finger knitting which I also

thought was really cool and they would try to teach me and I never could seem

to pick it up but I have come up with something new it is a finger knitting

loom and it helps me to do my own finger knitting and all you really need for it

is a TP tube and a few popsicle sticks so I'm going to teach you how to

make your very own finger knitting loom right now so for this project we're

going to need our hot glue gun if you wanted to do this with regular Elmer's

glue or glue dots that's fine you're just gonna need to make sure that you

give it enough time for them to dry really nice and solid we're gonna need

some scissors we're gonna need four popsicle sticks a couple rubber bands a

TP tube and of course some yarn I love this yarn because it changes colors so

I've got the color-changing yarn here so the first thing I'm gonna do is make my

loom and to make my loom all I'm gonna do is take one of these fabulous

popsicle sticks and glue it with about a tip of a finger over so that's about an

inch right there at the top there so I'm just gonna take a line of glue and I'm

just gonna glue it right down TP tube leaving one inch at the top there

between three quarters and one inch it's up to you okay now I'm going to flip it

over and directly across from it on the opposite side I'm going to glue another

popsicle stick

and again I'm gonna leave about an inch at the top now I'm gonna make an other

quarter turn here and I'm gonna place my third popsicle stick right in the middle

there and I leave one inch above and flip it over and final directly across

from the orange I place the green popsicle stick with one inch up there

we go and there's my loom now I'm gonna take a rubber band I'm gonna place it at

the bottom just like that I've wrapped it around twice because this is a pretty

big rubber band this is gonna be my yarn holder and so that's not like super

important if you don't have this don't don't get too upset but if you've got

one it's great because it's gonna help to hold the yarn all right I'm gonna

take my yarn and spool out a little bit of it here and the first thing I'm going

to do is take the one end and I'm gonna drop it down in through the toilet paper

tube so that it comes out the bottom there we go

and I'm gonna give myself some extra here see this I'm gonna give myself at

least Oh two lengths and I'm just gonna take it place it

underneath the rubber band just pull it up so I've got a little bit extra here

see that it's about it that's probably about a length of a TP tube just

hanging off like a tail okay now here's the one little tricky part it's getting

this to go the right way so what you want to do is start with one peg

whichever peg you want I'm gonna start with the orange one here and you go to

the left of the peg and wrap it around so that it is going counterclockwise so

I'm starting to the left side of the peg I wrap it around the front and then I

bring it behind now what I'm going to do is come to the front of the purple

excuse me to the back of the purple and we wrap it

around the front of the purple to the back of the green around the green to

the back of the red around the red okay so let's do that one more time just cuz

this is the confusing part once you get this it's really simple so start to the

left of your orange wrap it around the front of the orange bring it behind and

to the left side see that's your left of your purple wrap it around the purple

bring it behind to the left side of the green wrap it around the front of the

green to the left side of the red wrap it around the red and now you're ready

to weave okay so if you look at this can you see that see how it goes but bloop

bloop bloop it kind of makes like a picture frame alright now we're gonna

start to weave what I'm gonna do and this is the reason why I left a little extra

here is I'm gonna pull this so it's a little bit slack see that little bit of

slack I pulled that so it's a little slack now what I'm going to do is I'm

gonna take my weaving string I place it on top of my orange string that I

started and I'm going to pull this string up and over now once I've done

that I can pull this taunt down here so I just pulled that tail now alright now

I'm gonna give myself a quarter turn go to the purple and I'm going to do the

same thing I'm bringing this little piece of yarn up and over the new piece

of yarn again up and over and in front here up and over and I continue with

this technique up and over up then over up and over

now you always want to make sure you go in front don't go behind always go in

front and up and over and up and over now you do want to make sure that you're

keeping tension on this string this is the string that's coming from your yarn

skein you want to keep tension there so that

you're getting it's locked into place up and over and again up and over now you

can see what's happening in there it's kind of like a spiderweb now what I'm

going to do is I'm going to pull this tail and that's going to pull it down in

there a little bit and tighten it up and now I'm going to keep going up and over

and and over now the thing is as you get faster and faster and faster at this

your weaving will start to grow

and this is when you can just make it as long as you want it to be like every

like maybe four or five times around as you can see I'm starting to get the hang

of this right up and over up and over now if it does that did you see that how

it popped it off there that's all just push it back down on again okay so

this goes here the purple was there push back down and over and just go back and

catch that stitch that you lost some time that happens if you if you don't

keep the pressure on there so keep it up and over there we go up and over okay

now what I want to show you is that pull this and I don't know if you can see in

there but it's starting to make like a chain it's making a nice long chain and

you're just gonna keep going around and around and around and around until this

gets to the length you want no I've got mine here that I've been working on

before just take this rubber band off okay so I'm at this point here where I'm

gonna go up and over up and over I'm gonna go one more time around here up

and over up

and over okay now as you can see I've got my chain and it's coming out the

bottom so this one is about oh I'd say that's maybe like seven eight inches

long which is perfect for making like a little bracelet so I'm going to end here

and to do my ending what I'm gonna do is just snip this giving myself again

another you know twelve inches of extra because what I want to do now is I want

to tie it off now to tie it off what I do is very carefully slide the first

loop off and thread this extra piece of thread through that hole and now I slip

myself to the next one slip it off make sure that you get your finger there so

you can catch that that little loop slide it through go to the next one and

slide it through this is where it's nice to have this colored yarn I pulled the

last one off here and I'm going to slide it through the colored yarn helps to see

what stitch you're on here and slide it through there we go so now all you do is

pull that and that tightens up the end and you pull it the other end and you've

got yourself a nice long finger knitted chain and that's all there is to it

finger knitting made simple now remember you can make this as long as you want

you can do short and wrap it around tie it for a bracelet you could do medium

length and do it for your collar or for your neck or you can just keep going and

going and going and going and going for as long as you want and then you can

make it into anything including a long scarf for more great ideas that won't

keep you tied up in knots come and check us out at sophie-world.com