Hygge Knitted Cozy Blanket Scarf

Hello! Welcome to my channel. I am Crafty Patty and have I got something cozy for you today. I have always had a love for the Scandinavian countries. Although I've never been, I would love to go. Have you ever wondered why Denmark is such a happy place? Well, you may have heard of the word hygge or easier pronounced for me is hygge. It reflects the values of Danish society. So the easiest translation is it means coziness, but it is so much more. And I'm going to read this to you. So if it looks like I'm reading from something I am because I don't want to miss out anything, but I really want you to hear this. So I found this and these are basically the principles that Mike Viking talks about and he actually has a book on it as well. So just listen to this if you could just take the time to listen to this. It's not long, but it's great. Let's focus on creating coziness, connection, and contentment through atmosphere, presence, pleasure, equality, gratitude, harmony, comfort, truce, togetherness, and shelter, emphasizing simple joys, dim lighting, good food, unplugging from devices, and fostering supportive relationships for overall well-being and happiness. Wow, just reading that it puts me in my happy place. Hygge has inspired me to knit up this cozy blanket scarf using this hygge yarn. I have made it super easy to knit for beginners and enjoyable for all levels. The easy patterns, supplies, and links as always will be in the description box below of this video. So I hope you come along with me to make this cozy blanket scarf and feel the hygge coziness. This red heart hygge, that's probably not my right pronunciation, but for us we would be calling it hygge. It is as soft as they say it is. You can see how it's got this kind of fuzziness to it. It's so soft. So that's why they call it hygge. And I'm choosing to knit up a nice cozy blanket scarf to sit on the couch and have a nice cup of tea and just relax with it. And this is a bulky weight number five. So with red heart, normally the outside yarn will be tucked into one end, like you see it is here, and the other end hopefully is where you can pull out the end of the yarn. And there it is there. And if you choose to pull it out from the center of the ball, then it's a lot easier to work with because you can just be pulling it out like this and it's not going to roll all over your table. I'm going to be casting on 56 stitches in total. I'm going to do three knit stitches for the left border and three stitches for the right border. So 50 stitches for the pattern, three stitches for each border. So I've measured out about five feet from my long tail for the cast on. So I'll start my slip knot right here and I just cross it over, come through that hole, pull it up, and you've made your slip knot. Let's slip it onto our needle. So we're going to have the yarn coming from the ball in our right hand and I'm still going to use my tension that I always like to use, like so, and then I've got this to use that I can use to bring my yarn up to finish off the long tail cast on. And over here is all the yarn that we've pulled for the long tail cast on. So let's do our first one. To make it easy I'm going to get you to hold bring the yarn through your palm and your fingers like this. Thumb comes over and then you're going to twist around like so. This needle comes through like so. You're going to hold on to that now. Just hold on with that loop around your thumb. Hold on to the needle. Your yarn from your ball is going to come around and then that is going to come over to make your long tail cast on. Do that again. Thumb, turn into the needle, hold, wrap around, and then finish that loop over the needle. So go a little bit faster here and try to keep the same tension by pulling this down the same amount all the time so you've got it nice and neat and tidy along here. So just watch that. Okay, so I think you probably got it. I am going to now cast on those 56 stitches and then we'll come back to you. And that's what I've got left over for the long tail. If you want to cast on a different amount of stitches and you can certainly do that with making it a different width for the blanket scarf. A little trick is you can just wrap your yarn around your needle and count how many times you want to cast on. So you want to cast on 10 stitches and you can go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. And then you'll know that that is the amount of yarn you need to cast on 10 stitches. And our first row is all knit stitches. Nice and easy. Again, tension, wrapping around your baby finger, using your index finger to guide it over the needle. You need to let it slide through your finger. It makes for great tension. Okay, knit stitch, wrapping around and off the needle. Next stitch, wrap around and off the needle. That's your knit stitch and we're going to knit all the way to the end of the row and I will see you when I get to the end. And here's my last knit stitch. There we go. So we're just going to transfer over our right needle from the left hand to the right. I've now got our stitches on the left needle and we're going to be working in a broken rib pattern with garter rows. And so the other thing we're going to do is I want to have always three knit stitches on the side borders. That will allow it to be a little neater on the sides. So let's start with those three knit stitches and then we can start our pattern. So for our row two we're going to be doing knit one and purl one across the whole row to the last three stitches. So we've disted our borders, those are our three, but now we're going to start the pattern. So we're going to start our pattern with the knit one and then purl one. So to purl, we're bringing our yarn around so it's on top of the needle and we're coming in to the front of our stitch to make a purl. Now in order to make a knit stitch again we need to bring that yarn back to the back and now we can come in and do a knit stitch. Now purl again wrapping the yarn to the front, to the front of the stitch, wrap around and off. Yarn's in the front here so we know we've got to bring it to the back so we can do a knit stitch. Knit, wrap around, purl to the front, to the front, back of the knit. Okay so we've probably got that. So I'll continue knit some purls till I get to my last three stitches. I'm just going to show you something too. If you are a beginner knitter and you lose track of where you are and you don't know if you're on a purl or a knit, you can see where you've got that bar right up close to the needle, that's always going to be a purl. You see this one here, it looks like it's got two little V's coming down, that's your knit. Knit, purl, there's your knit, there's your bar which is a purl. Knit, purl, knit so I know my next stitch is a purl. And here I am on my last purl and we have three stitches left so we're going to knit those last three stitches for our border. You've just completed row two and now for row three we're going to knit the whole row so you don't have to worry about those first three stitches because they're all knits anyways. Just knit all the way across the whole row, nice and easy. See when I get to the end and it doesn't matter on this row about your borders because you're doing all knit stitches anyways. Row three is done and now for row four let's start with our three border stitches, three knits, get those out of the way and then we'll begin our pattern again. Here's our three knits and now you realize on row two we did knit one, purl one, knit one, purl one. This time we're going to start the purl. So now our pattern is purl one and then knit one all the way across the row. Purl one and knit one. Okay so I'm going to meet you at our last three stitches. Just done a purl and that's my knit and then the last three stitches for our border for the knit and that completes row four. Keep doing rows one to four and just keep knitting for as long as you want to knit. So we're back to knitting. Row one is all knits and just follow rows one two three and four and keep going. And this is what we've got so far with one ball and we are measuring approximately 22 inches across and that would be about 50.6 centimeters and for length we're measuring approximately 20 and a half let's just call it 21 and that would be approximately 50.3 centimeters. So if we use three balls of yarn of this particular yarn we'll have approximately 63 inch length for our blanket scarf. And this is the beautiful pattern it is creating from that easy knit purl for one row, purl one for another row and knitting rows in between. So you can see you've got a nice little almost diamond shapes and then we've got our three knit border. That's what this side looks like and the other side is just as beautiful. So I do like this pattern for this particular yarn. This side is very very soft and this side gives you more of a pattern. And it's time to add the next ball of yarn because I've run out. And if you've never added yarn before let's do that together. We've got the tail of the yarn coming from our project and we've got the tail of the yarn coming from our new ball of yarn. So let's make a magic knot together. Starting with the bottom one let's bring it over top of this yarn on the top. So we're coming over and then you're coming under. Doing that again. Over and then you're going to come under. Over, under, over, under. And then just give that a pull. Not too tight just enough to cinch it up. And now we've got the top one. So we're going to do the same thing. We're going to come over and under. And we do an over under again. So we go over this one and we need to come under. So we're coming under and then just hold on to that and give that a little pull. Not too tight just enough to cinch it together. And then the last we're going to do to do the magic knot is we're just going to hold on to these two and we're going to pull them together. And then you might want to just give this one more tug here. One more tug there. And then one last tug in the middle to join them together until it's really together like so. And then it's just a matter of cutting the yarn off. Close but not real close. And believe it or not that's going to get hid into your knitting quite well so not to worry about it. And you probably have noticed if you have knit a little bit that quite often you come to the middle of your ball of yarn and you go, oh there's a knot. But it works out in the end so don't worry about the knot. I've added the third ball of yarn and I've now left oh about six feet of yarn from the last part of my ball and we're ready to cast off now. And here we go for our cast off. Let's insert our needle into that first stitch. Wrap around as if we were to knit. We're going to knit the next stitch and now we're going to insert our needle into that first stitch. And you can use your finger to hold down on this stitch here so you don't lose it and that one's going to come over the top of the needle and over that first stitch. That's your cast off. Let's do a couple more and there you have it. You want to kind of do it on a little bit of the looser side because you don't want that last row pulling in for your edge. And my last cast off and as you can see that's how much I've got left. So maybe for yourself maybe you can leave a little bit more than six feet or more. I think I had about seven feet so maybe leave at least eight feet. So let's take our needle off and we're just going to pull that yarn through that loop and that will tie it off and then we'll just sew in our little end. And just weaving back and forth go this way and then this way back and forth and then once I've gone one way give it a little pull so you're not distorting your edge and then I come back again. So let's grab this one. It doesn't really matter where you're going you're just weaving it in with a tug and cut off the rest. And there's your beautiful cast off edge. And the same for the start of your blanket weaving in your end as always. And here's our finished blanket scarf and with three balls of yarn that gave us, there's 60 there, let's say that gave us 62 inches. I'll put the centimeters on the screen and if you want to make it longer then you can add another ball of yarn. And again for width with the cast on of 56 stitches that gave us 21 inches. If you want it to be not as wide then by all means cast on less. If you want it to be wider cast on more but you will need a fourth ball of yarn if you want to cast on more. And again this is how the back side looks when knitted up and the right side. Well I must say this is one of my favorite knitting projects to date. I love how this just drapes over the shoulders. It's cozy and warm. It's perfect for sitting down on the couch reading a book and just relaxing. But I really did actually knit this for my daughter who's going to be having a baby soon. I thought it would be perfect waking up in the middle of night just grabbing something to throw over your shoulders to keep warm while you're feeding the baby. But I don't know. I think I might want to keep it for me. We'll see. I could always knit another one. If you're wondering though this particular one is actually powder. The color and it comes in other beautiful colors and you can knit this any size you want. Make it a little bit shorter. Make it longer. Just grab one more extra ball of yarn and you're ready to go. Well I'm off to have some good food, have a nice cup of tea and get cozy with my blanket which I might not want to give up. We'll see. Bye bye for now.