Tea Towel

We are going to be making awesome tea towels as a totally cool decor for our kitchens! You can either use any type of wool and yarn, it is totally up to you. If you want to actually use it, I would suggest

• Knitting needle (4mm)
• Sandy white wool (or first colour choice)
• Brown wool (or second colour choice)
• Scissors

Cast on:

• Find one end of you first colour choice and tie it onto your needle, by doing a simple overhand knot
• Do a wrap cast on and just loop the string around your two fingers until it fully wraps around your finger
• Put the wool on your needle and pull until it secures on the needle (this is called a stitch
• Continue doing this for how long you want your width to be, e.g. 30 stitches, 50 stitches etc.

Knitting rows:

To actually knit rows, you have to get your other needle out. First poke your other needle (the one without the wool) into the first stitch. Next, use the excess wool to tie a circle around the first needle (the one with the wool). Now comes the tricky part, you want to get the second needle out of the circle you just made around the first needle, but keep the first needle still around the second needle, so it holds its place. Finally, you take that stitch out, including your second needle, so it is now free again. Pull on the excess string to guarantee no loose rows. Make sure to check out the video below on how to knit!

Changing colours from white to brown:

You can totally skip this step if you think it is too hard and just continue until it is a good tea towel length, but I suggest for you to try! It will look very nice in the end, I promise. This step is relatively easy compared to knitting. Once you think you knitted enough, all you have to do is get out your scissors and cut the excessive string off, make sure to leave at least 8 cm to tie the brown one on though! Get your brown string out and find the end, and then tie the end of your knitted string to the new brown one. You can either do a double overhand knot or a fisherman knot, whatever works best for you. Continue knitting until you think is good and then switch back to white, to make a nice pattern.

Do two stitches, then put the top stitch over the bottom stitch, and leave only one stitch on. Then, continue knitting one more, until there is two stitches again and repeat.