**Creating a Quick Arm Knit Cowl**

In this video tutorial, we will show you how to create a quick and easy arm knit cowl using Lion Brand Yarns' Wool East Thick and Quick yarn. This yarn is perfect for creating a warm and cozy accessory that can be worn in no time. We will demonstrate the process of casting on stitches, knitting rows, and finishing off the project.

First, we need to take out our yarn and start by creating a loop with one end. Take your hand into the stitch and pull the yarn through to create a new stitch. You should now have two loops on your hand. Create another loop on the other side of the yarn and slip it over the first one. Now you will have three stitches on your hand, one on each side of the yarn.

Next, we need to tighten our stitches by pulling the yarn through both loops. Make sure not to pull it too tight, as this can cause puckering in the fabric. Create a new loop and slip it over the first stitch, just like you did before. Now you should have four stitches on your hand. Repeat this process until you reach the desired length for your cowl.

Once you have reached the desired length, we need to fasten off the yarn. Take the end of the yarn and pull it through the last loop on your hand. This will secure the last stitch in place. Now take the tail of the yarn and pull it gently to tighten the stitches. You should now have a neat and tidy cowl with no loose ends.

To finish off the project, we need to sew the two ends together using a tapestry needle. Simply thread the needle with the remaining yarn and weave it under the last few rows of stitches. Then, tie a knot to secure the end in place. Repeat this process for both ends, making sure to match up the stitches carefully.

**Tips and Variations**

One of the great things about arm knit cowl is that you can customize it to fit your style and preferences. To create a more narrow fabric, cast on fewer stitches - just six or eight should give you a nice, slouchy fit. On the other hand, if you want a chunkier fabric, cast on more stitches - 12 or even 16 will give you a wider, warmer cowl.

Another great thing about arm knit cowl is that it's quick and easy to make. As we can see in this video tutorial, we can create an entire cowl in just a few minutes. This makes it the perfect accessory for beginners who want to try their hand at knitting or crochet.

**Weaving in Ends**

Once you've finished your arm knit cowl, you'll need to weave in the ends using a tapestry needle. To do this, thread the needle with the remaining yarn and insert it under the last few rows of stitches. Then, pull the yarn gently to tighten the stitches and secure the end in place.

To make sure the yarn is securely attached, try tucking the tail of the yarn under several stitches or weaving it over a few stitches to hide it from view. This will give your cowl a neat and tidy finish that looks like it was professionally finished.

**Giveaway**

As a special thank you to our viewers, we are hosting a giveaway for two skeins each of Lion Brand Yarns' Wool East Thick and Quick yarn in the gorgeous purple color Fig. To enter the giveaway, simply click on the link in the description box below to head over to our website and follow the instructions.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey it's vanessa the crafty gemini i post weekly videos right here on my youtube channel and in this video i'm gonna teach you how to arm knit this really cool infinity scarf okay so for this arm knit cowl tutorial i'm going to show you a few different samples because it's really easy to customize the pattern that you're using to make it wider chunkier bulkier longer shorter whatever you want to do so this is probably the chunkiest one that i have and for this one i cast on 12 and i'll show you the length of it before i put it together so you can see all right you basically make one long strip then you fold it together like bring the ends together and you whip stitch it close to make your whole circle right your little cowl or infinity scarf whatever you want to call it now this is probably the chunkiest one that i have you can see it looks kind of narrow but if you open it up you can see where i cast on where my stitches you know they're 12 going across all right so it's really airy really light and so it still keeps this nice drape to it even if you make a chunky one like this one now the one that we're going to be making in this tutorial is going to whip up quicker it's not going to be quite as bulky as that but it's real simple to make it that way once you get the basics down you'll be able to crank them out in all kinds of sizes and lengths all right so this is a little bit longer than the one that we'll be making today you can see but it's just about as narrow as the one that we'll be making okay so you can see how this one fits when it's doubled up i have a little bit more room here it's not quite as tight to my face all right and then the one that we'll be making today is going to be similar to that just a little bit shorter that way it'll whip up quicker i still haven't um woven in the ends on this one so just pretend you don't see those tails we'll weave them in later but you can see it's long enough so that you can just wear it like that as a scarf or i mean a longer cow i should say and then if you double it up you still have enough to do that and it'll just fit you a little bit more snug around your neck so you can see that cowl like that so this is the one that we're going to be making today after you crank out one the second one shouldn't take you any more than maybe 30 or 40 minutes and i think i can make this one probably in about 15 or 20. so they whip up really quick obviously the longer you make it the wider and the chunkier you make it those are going to take you a little while longer but otherwise real simple to make so let's go over the yarn that we need to create this cowl and the pattern that i'll be following as well for the yarn go ahead and grab two skeins of woolly's thick and quick it's by lion brand yarns it's a number six super bulky yarn it's mostly acrylic so it's machine washable and dryable we're gonna need two skeins of this so here we go these are the ones i'm gonna use for this tutorial and then for the pattern that we'll be using this is actually a free pattern that you can download from lion brand's website i'll include a link in the description box below where you can click to download it remember that you'll have to create a free account with them first before you can actually print it out once you do that you can have a copy like i do here it's called the quick arm knit cowl so for this pattern it calls for casting on six stitches so i just want to show you an example of about how narrow that will be this one i think i did with seven so it's gonna be pretty similar to this we're gonna keep it nice and short the pattern is gonna tell you to keep knitting knitting knitting until there's maybe like three feet left of the two skeins and to me that is just way too long so i'm just gonna show you all how to make one like this so it won't take you that long and it's long enough to wear by itself or it's still i mean there's enough length that you can double up and use it as this type of a cowl all right so this is what we'll be working on let's get started with our yarn now normally if you've watched my crochet videos i usually will tell you to start with the yarn from the inside now for this project don't ask me how i know i'm gonna recommend that you start from the outside tail so i can see this here and i'm just gonna pull this one out and you can see that as i pull it's unwinding it from the outside as opposed to pulling that whole bulk thing that comes out from the inside don't do that just start from the outside and we're going to do that to both of our skeins so this one right here and now let's get started all right so we have our two skeins our two ends unwinding them from the outside right we're going to put two of these together because we're going to use two strands right one from each of the skeins just as if it were one so this is going to help us whip up the cowl quicker and it's just going to add added texture i'll show you on this one what that's going to do each one of these that are two together you see how they're all two two two two together it makes the yarn even more bulky so it whips up even quicker okay instead of using just one strand and it adds more body and texture and overall i think it just makes it look better anyways and feel free to use three or four if you want to you'll make a super bulky and chunky and super warm cowl if you do that but this pattern just calls for two strands so that's what we're going to do here i want you to grab both ends together on one side and you're going to measure just from holding from the tip of your finger all the way to your shoulder on this side that's one and measure it one and two all right so that's two arm lengths there so it's about six feet okay if you wanted to measure you end up needing about six feet on that side all right now we're going to create a slip knot here to get started with our knitting palm face up on one hand grab my yarn wrap one full circle around my four fingers bring my fingertips towards my palm the one i'm holding here i'm gonna tuck it under and pull it up as a loop so this is the top part of my slip knot if i take my hand out and i pull on these two tails now i have a slip knot and this is what we need to get started now to make sure that you've done the slip knot correctly you can always just test it out if i pull on both ends it should just pop right back out there's no knots created or anything like that so that's how you know you've done it correctly again so this is really loose you can see that so go ahead and tighten it just by tugging on the tails here you don't want it super tight where it's cutting off your circulation like this because then you're not even going to be able to take it off of your hand to do your stitches all right so i like to leave it just a little bit loose this is our tail we're not working with that right now but this other side that's connected to the balls of yarn this is what's coming off of the skeins as we are knitting all right so we have them separated this is going to those balls of yarn and this is just off to the side so what i'm going to do here is start casting on and the pattern tells us to cast on six stitches so our slip knot is one it counts as one now we're going to come in here two fingers all right you see how i'm holding this is like an upside down v right i'm gonna come in through here not here look at how i'm coming at it from the front side my back my last three fingers are holding the yarn and i'm gonna open my fingers and notice i'm pulling back like this kind of like a slingshot and then we have a loop basically going around our thumb here and then i have another one going around my pointer finger you see there's yarn coming around the other side as well so there's two things you need to do here one is under over and the other one is over under so here we go i'm gonna go under the yarn that's closest to me of all the different yarns that i have here on my left hand the yarn that's closest to me is going to be this one here so i'm going to go under that all right and now i have to go over and under another one if we're looking at the pointer i have yarn on the left side of it and yarn on the right side this one is closer to me so i'm going to go over come through it and that is your first real cast on stitch so we have now one two okay remember since we're working with two strands of yarn each double strand counts as one go back again come with your thumb and your pointer in here grab the yarn open your fingers and pull this back like a slingshot under this one over and under this one and then when you pull you get something like that now let me show you a part here that when i first started used to get me confused because nobody ever said that this is what you're doing so you're going under and here but notice you see this one that's over the palm of my hand when i come under i need to go through this thing like that and that's how you create the correct cast on stitches so now we have one which was our slip knot two three and four we need to do two more so again upside down v come from the front side grab the yarn with my last three fingers open pull bring back like a slingshot under the first one over the other one and through and then pull your stitches so i have one two three four five stitches i need one more coming through here pull back like a slingshot going just under this one notice that one on that side of the thumb stays there so just under this one and then over and under look at the shape of my hand it's coming through and out do so here are our six cast on stitches that was really the hardest part once you get that down you're off and running so here we go next thing we need to do the one hand that has all our stitches on it already is the one that we're going to be holding notice again this is my tail i'm not doing nothing with that i'm holding the working yarn the yarn that's coming off of my two skeins so i'm holding it now in this hand because this is the one that has all the stitches now i'm gonna grab my first stitch and remember we're calling this one stitch but it's doubled up because we're using two strands of yarn and i'm just gonna pull it off of my hand i'm holding my working yarn and you see now i created a kind of a loop here and now i slip my hand through this loop and now let me tug on this a little bit and tighten it up okay this tail that's off here to the side don't worry about it yet we're not doing anything with that so here i have i've now brought my stitches over to this side here's one again i'm holding the working yarn look where it's coming from my skeins of yarn i'm holding the working yarn on the side that has all the stitches i take the next stitch off and i created a loop because i was holding on to it and then you bring that over to your hand and make it a little bit snug okay holding the yarn again and this hand that has all my stitches take the next stitch off i'm still holding on to this yarn and i've created a loop and bring it over to that side and pull my yarn tail this is always the working yarn tail hold it again in this hand pull that stitch off and come in through here this is my fifth one hold it again in this hand remember the yarn you have to be holding in the one hand that you're taking the stitches off of so that you can create the loop here to then drape the next hand over and here is my first row of stitches you can yank on them a little bit so now all my stitches are on this arm so i'm holding the working yarn on this arm now i'm going to take the first stitch off and here i was holding it so i still have that and there's a few different ways you can come in from the front you can come in from here and i've done it both ways i don't see a significant difference so just do whichever way you want again i have to hold the working yarn in my hand that has all the stitches pull this one off my loop here put my other hand in and tug next stitch off slip my hand in that take the next stitch off i'm holding my yarn here and when i come up i have a loop to enter my other hand in through again i'm holding with the yarn that has i'm holding the working yarn in the hand that has the stitches i'm working with right now so i take it off and slip my hand through the yarn loop that i'm holding last stitch on this side and here's my loop put my arm in so again i'm holding the working yarn in the hand that has the stitches on it that i'm gonna start taking off okay so take off the first one i've created a loop slip my hand in and tighten it up yarn goes in this hand again okay take the next stitch off slip my hand in the loop that i was holding and snug that up a little bit holding the yarn here slip this off the yarn i was holding i created a loop stick my hand in through that one and then just continue to do that till you get your desired length and you can see i mean i don't even have to think about it anymore and you'll get there just keep working at it so that's the same pattern that you just got to keep repeating and repeating until you get the length that you want so i'm just going to keep working at this and then i'm going to stop where i think i like the length so i'll meet you back here in a little bit let me just keep working on this so this is what i have and you can kind of eyeball it if i grab it here since i still have stuff on my wrist if i grab it here and twist it around that's how it's going to look around my neck it's kind of snug so that's pretty good maybe i'll do one more row and then whenever you determine you have exactly the length you know whatever the length is that you want you feel like okay that's enough stitches and that you can stop at that point then what you want to do is bind off and to bind off is basically to finish off the stitches that you have on your arm because as you can see they're all open it's like open stitches okay if i just took this off of my hand it would not be closed off to have a finished project there so we need to bind off and to do that you stop like whenever you get to whatever length you want on one of your hands remember this one has nothing and this one is here so now we start like if we were gonna do another row of stitching but we're only going to do two stitches here so here i go again i'm holding it working yarn holding it in the in the hand that has all the stitches i'm gonna take one off created this loop i'm slipping my hand in just like we were going to do another row of stitching so that's one now i'm going to repeat that again and two here i have my two now what you want to do is not this one but this one pull it off over your hand and let it go it feels crazy and it looks crazy but you're doing it right so you should only have one stitch now on this hand and we go back here and do another regular stitch so i have my working yarn in the hand that has the stitches take one stitch off i'm holding my yarn still so i've created the loop go through and do it tighten it up and then remove that first one that was on here take it off and let it go all right again you should have one here left after you do that come back here take a stitch off created the loop from the yarn i was holding put my hand in tighten my stitches and take this one off over that new stitch and let it go tighten it up a little bit not too tight again next stitch here created that loop slip my hand in and take off the stitch that was there before i just did that one one over the one that's further back from that one and let it go and the last one here create my loop stick my hand in take that one stitch over it and let it go now what you end up with is this tail of working yarn and one loop left on your hand so now we leave this as a loop don't pull it tight yet and i'm gonna come here and cut kind of a long tail maybe two feet or so so i can weave that in and now the loop that we had remember this was the last one that was on my hand i take it off and now we're gonna fasten it off so i'm just gonna pull that tail in through there and pull this nice and snug and that's gonna secure it okay so now your project is secure so we're going to take our two ends all right so here are our ends this needs to be sewn to this when you get to the end you're going to want to make a little knot just to help secure everything in place all right so we have that now i can cut more off of this and go back and weave in these ends and now you can try to weave these in by hand one at a time and kind of just tuck them under over under different spots and places like that or you can also you know if you crochet or you knitting you have a tapestry needle you can use that as well i'm just going to hide it under a few more places here and then just cut the tail finally so that's one i'll repeat that to the next one and then you're going to do the same thing to these two down here all right so that's it guys we're done with our quick arm knit cowl you can see it's just long enough for me to double up which is the way i prefer to wear it around my neck and i wanted to show you how much yarn i have left from the two skeins after creating this cowl you i think you'll be surprised actually because there's quite a bit left and you can definitely crank out another one from this so it's not just one that you can make from the two skeins this stuff is pretty bulky and a lot of it comes in each skein so you'll have enough to make at least two in this size as long as they're pretty narrow and not too long but i also wanted to show you a different one because remember this one we just cast on six stitches so it's pretty narrow our fabric is not that wide now from the two skeins i also created this chunkier one and the fabric on this is a lot bulkier and wider because i cast on 12 stitches so it's pretty much twice as wide as the one i just created in the video tutorial for you all and you can see how this one fits a lot chunkier so it's a lot warmer okay and this one i still had yarn left this is what i had left after creating this really chunky one so my daughter's three and i can definitely crank her out one little cowl out of this probably even one for myself out of what i have left over so there is quite a bit of yarn on these two skeins all right so just keep that in mind and now thanks to our friends at lion brand yarns we are hosting a giveaway as well so two of you lucky viewers out there are gonna win two skeins each of the lion brand wool east thick and quick in this gorgeous purple color called fig and i already have the yarns here so i'll be shipping them out to you myself so you know what that means this giveaway is open to all my international viewers the link to enter the giveaway is included in the description box below so click on that to head over to my website and then all the details will be there on how you can enter to win the two skeins of yarn thanks again for watching i hope you enjoyed this video tutorial if you did make sure you hit the video with the thumbs up below share it across the different social media sites if you give the product a try and you upload a picture to social media tag me on it you can find me on instagram craftygemini and definitely post those pictures to my facebook page because i love to see what you're out there making from the crafty gemini tutorials thanks again for watching and i'll see you all next timehey it's vanessa the crafty gemini i post weekly videos right here on my youtube channel and in this video i'm gonna teach you how to arm knit this really cool infinity scarf okay so for this arm knit cowl tutorial i'm going to show you a few different samples because it's really easy to customize the pattern that you're using to make it wider chunkier bulkier longer shorter whatever you want to do so this is probably the chunkiest one that i have and for this one i cast on 12 and i'll show you the length of it before i put it together so you can see all right you basically make one long strip then you fold it together like bring the ends together and you whip stitch it close to make your whole circle right your little cowl or infinity scarf whatever you want to call it now this is probably the chunkiest one that i have you can see it looks kind of narrow but if you open it up you can see where i cast on where my stitches you know they're 12 going across all right so it's really airy really light and so it still keeps this nice drape to it even if you make a chunky one like this one now the one that we're going to be making in this tutorial is going to whip up quicker it's not going to be quite as bulky as that but it's real simple to make it that way once you get the basics down you'll be able to crank them out in all kinds of sizes and lengths all right so this is a little bit longer than the one that we'll be making today you can see but it's just about as narrow as the one that we'll be making okay so you can see how this one fits when it's doubled up i have a little bit more room here it's not quite as tight to my face all right and then the one that we'll be making today is going to be similar to that just a little bit shorter that way it'll whip up quicker i still haven't um woven in the ends on this one so just pretend you don't see those tails we'll weave them in later but you can see it's long enough so that you can just wear it like that as a scarf or i mean a longer cow i should say and then if you double it up you still have enough to do that and it'll just fit you a little bit more snug around your neck so you can see that cowl like that so this is the one that we're going to be making today after you crank out one the second one shouldn't take you any more than maybe 30 or 40 minutes and i think i can make this one probably in about 15 or 20. so they whip up really quick obviously the longer you make it the wider and the chunkier you make it those are going to take you a little while longer but otherwise real simple to make so let's go over the yarn that we need to create this cowl and the pattern that i'll be following as well for the yarn go ahead and grab two skeins of woolly's thick and quick it's by lion brand yarns it's a number six super bulky yarn it's mostly acrylic so it's machine washable and dryable we're gonna need two skeins of this so here we go these are the ones i'm gonna use for this tutorial and then for the pattern that we'll be using this is actually a free pattern that you can download from lion brand's website i'll include a link in the description box below where you can click to download it remember that you'll have to create a free account with them first before you can actually print it out once you do that you can have a copy like i do here it's called the quick arm knit cowl so for this pattern it calls for casting on six stitches so i just want to show you an example of about how narrow that will be this one i think i did with seven so it's gonna be pretty similar to this we're gonna keep it nice and short the pattern is gonna tell you to keep knitting knitting knitting until there's maybe like three feet left of the two skeins and to me that is just way too long so i'm just gonna show you all how to make one like this so it won't take you that long and it's long enough to wear by itself or it's still i mean there's enough length that you can double up and use it as this type of a cowl all right so this is what we'll be working on let's get started with our yarn now normally if you've watched my crochet videos i usually will tell you to start with the yarn from the inside now for this project don't ask me how i know i'm gonna recommend that you start from the outside tail so i can see this here and i'm just gonna pull this one out and you can see that as i pull it's unwinding it from the outside as opposed to pulling that whole bulk thing that comes out from the inside don't do that just start from the outside and we're going to do that to both of our skeins so this one right here and now let's get started all right so we have our two skeins our two ends unwinding them from the outside right we're going to put two of these together because we're going to use two strands right one from each of the skeins just as if it were one so this is going to help us whip up the cowl quicker and it's just going to add added texture i'll show you on this one what that's going to do each one of these that are two together you see how they're all two two two two together it makes the yarn even more bulky so it whips up even quicker okay instead of using just one strand and it adds more body and texture and overall i think it just makes it look better anyways and feel free to use three or four if you want to you'll make a super bulky and chunky and super warm cowl if you do that but this pattern just calls for two strands so that's what we're going to do here i want you to grab both ends together on one side and you're going to measure just from holding from the tip of your finger all the way to your shoulder on this side that's one and measure it one and two all right so that's two arm lengths there so it's about six feet okay if you wanted to measure you end up needing about six feet on that side all right now we're going to create a slip knot here to get started with our knitting palm face up on one hand grab my yarn wrap one full circle around my four fingers bring my fingertips towards my palm the one i'm holding here i'm gonna tuck it under and pull it up as a loop so this is the top part of my slip knot if i take my hand out and i pull on these two tails now i have a slip knot and this is what we need to get started now to make sure that you've done the slip knot correctly you can always just test it out if i pull on both ends it should just pop right back out there's no knots created or anything like that so that's how you know you've done it correctly again so this is really loose you can see that so go ahead and tighten it just by tugging on the tails here you don't want it super tight where it's cutting off your circulation like this because then you're not even going to be able to take it off of your hand to do your stitches all right so i like to leave it just a little bit loose this is our tail we're not working with that right now but this other side that's connected to the balls of yarn this is what's coming off of the skeins as we are knitting all right so we have them separated this is going to those balls of yarn and this is just off to the side so what i'm going to do here is start casting on and the pattern tells us to cast on six stitches so our slip knot is one it counts as one now we're going to come in here two fingers all right you see how i'm holding this is like an upside down v right i'm gonna come in through here not here look at how i'm coming at it from the front side my back my last three fingers are holding the yarn and i'm gonna open my fingers and notice i'm pulling back like this kind of like a slingshot and then we have a loop basically going around our thumb here and then i have another one going around my pointer finger you see there's yarn coming around the other side as well so there's two things you need to do here one is under over and the other one is over under so here we go i'm gonna go under the yarn that's closest to me of all the different yarns that i have here on my left hand the yarn that's closest to me is going to be this one here so i'm going to go under that all right and now i have to go over and under another one if we're looking at the pointer i have yarn on the left side of it and yarn on the right side this one is closer to me so i'm going to go over come through it and that is your first real cast on stitch so we have now one two okay remember since we're working with two strands of yarn each double strand counts as one go back again come with your thumb and your pointer in here grab the yarn open your fingers and pull this back like a slingshot under this one over and under this one and then when you pull you get something like that now let me show you a part here that when i first started used to get me confused because nobody ever said that this is what you're doing so you're going under and here but notice you see this one that's over the palm of my hand when i come under i need to go through this thing like that and that's how you create the correct cast on stitches so now we have one which was our slip knot two three and four we need to do two more so again upside down v come from the front side grab the yarn with my last three fingers open pull bring back like a slingshot under the first one over the other one and through and then pull your stitches so i have one two three four five stitches i need one more coming through here pull back like a slingshot going just under this one notice that one on that side of the thumb stays there so just under this one and then over and under look at the shape of my hand it's coming through and out do so here are our six cast on stitches that was really the hardest part once you get that down you're off and running so here we go next thing we need to do the one hand that has all our stitches on it already is the one that we're going to be holding notice again this is my tail i'm not doing nothing with that i'm holding the working yarn the yarn that's coming off of my two skeins so i'm holding it now in this hand because this is the one that has all the stitches now i'm gonna grab my first stitch and remember we're calling this one stitch but it's doubled up because we're using two strands of yarn and i'm just gonna pull it off of my hand i'm holding my working yarn and you see now i created a kind of a loop here and now i slip my hand through this loop and now let me tug on this a little bit and tighten it up okay this tail that's off here to the side don't worry about it yet we're not doing anything with that so here i have i've now brought my stitches over to this side here's one again i'm holding the working yarn look where it's coming from my skeins of yarn i'm holding the working yarn on the side that has all the stitches i take the next stitch off and i created a loop because i was holding on to it and then you bring that over to your hand and make it a little bit snug okay holding the yarn again and this hand that has all my stitches take the next stitch off i'm still holding on to this yarn and i've created a loop and bring it over to that side and pull my yarn tail this is always the working yarn tail hold it again in this hand pull that stitch off and come in through here this is my fifth one hold it again in this hand remember the yarn you have to be holding in the one hand that you're taking the stitches off of so that you can create the loop here to then drape the next hand over and here is my first row of stitches you can yank on them a little bit so now all my stitches are on this arm so i'm holding the working yarn on this arm now i'm going to take the first stitch off and here i was holding it so i still have that and there's a few different ways you can come in from the front you can come in from here and i've done it both ways i don't see a significant difference so just do whichever way you want again i have to hold the working yarn in my hand that has all the stitches pull this one off my loop here put my other hand in and tug next stitch off slip my hand in that take the next stitch off i'm holding my yarn here and when i come up i have a loop to enter my other hand in through again i'm holding with the yarn that has i'm holding the working yarn in the hand that has the stitches i'm working with right now so i take it off and slip my hand through the yarn loop that i'm holding last stitch on this side and here's my loop put my arm in so again i'm holding the working yarn in the hand that has the stitches on it that i'm gonna start taking off okay so take off the first one i've created a loop slip my hand in and tighten it up yarn goes in this hand again okay take the next stitch off slip my hand in the loop that i was holding and snug that up a little bit holding the yarn here slip this off the yarn i was holding i created a loop stick my hand in through that one and then just continue to do that till you get your desired length and you can see i mean i don't even have to think about it anymore and you'll get there just keep working at it so that's the same pattern that you just got to keep repeating and repeating until you get the length that you want so i'm just going to keep working at this and then i'm going to stop where i think i like the length so i'll meet you back here in a little bit let me just keep working on this so this is what i have and you can kind of eyeball it if i grab it here since i still have stuff on my wrist if i grab it here and twist it around that's how it's going to look around my neck it's kind of snug so that's pretty good maybe i'll do one more row and then whenever you determine you have exactly the length you know whatever the length is that you want you feel like okay that's enough stitches and that you can stop at that point then what you want to do is bind off and to bind off is basically to finish off the stitches that you have on your arm because as you can see they're all open it's like open stitches okay if i just took this off of my hand it would not be closed off to have a finished project there so we need to bind off and to do that you stop like whenever you get to whatever length you want on one of your hands remember this one has nothing and this one is here so now we start like if we were gonna do another row of stitching but we're only going to do two stitches here so here i go again i'm holding it working yarn holding it in the in the hand that has all the stitches i'm gonna take one off created this loop i'm slipping my hand in just like we were going to do another row of stitching so that's one now i'm going to repeat that again and two here i have my two now what you want to do is not this one but this one pull it off over your hand and let it go it feels crazy and it looks crazy but you're doing it right so you should only have one stitch now on this hand and we go back here and do another regular stitch so i have my working yarn in the hand that has the stitches take one stitch off i'm holding my yarn still so i've created the loop go through and do it tighten it up and then remove that first one that was on here take it off and let it go all right again you should have one here left after you do that come back here take a stitch off created the loop from the yarn i was holding put my hand in tighten my stitches and take this one off over that new stitch and let it go tighten it up a little bit not too tight again next stitch here created that loop slip my hand in and take off the stitch that was there before i just did that one one over the one that's further back from that one and let it go and the last one here create my loop stick my hand in take that one stitch over it and let it go now what you end up with is this tail of working yarn and one loop left on your hand so now we leave this as a loop don't pull it tight yet and i'm gonna come here and cut kind of a long tail maybe two feet or so so i can weave that in and now the loop that we had remember this was the last one that was on my hand i take it off and now we're gonna fasten it off so i'm just gonna pull that tail in through there and pull this nice and snug and that's gonna secure it okay so now your project is secure so we're going to take our two ends all right so here are our ends this needs to be sewn to this when you get to the end you're going to want to make a little knot just to help secure everything in place all right so we have that now i can cut more off of this and go back and weave in these ends and now you can try to weave these in by hand one at a time and kind of just tuck them under over under different spots and places like that or you can also you know if you crochet or you knitting you have a tapestry needle you can use that as well i'm just going to hide it under a few more places here and then just cut the tail finally so that's one i'll repeat that to the next one and then you're going to do the same thing to these two down here all right so that's it guys we're done with our quick arm knit cowl you can see it's just long enough for me to double up which is the way i prefer to wear it around my neck and i wanted to show you how much yarn i have left from the two skeins after creating this cowl you i think you'll be surprised actually because there's quite a bit left and you can definitely crank out another one from this so it's not just one that you can make from the two skeins this stuff is pretty bulky and a lot of it comes in each skein so you'll have enough to make at least two in this size as long as they're pretty narrow and not too long but i also wanted to show you a different one because remember this one we just cast on six stitches so it's pretty narrow our fabric is not that wide now from the two skeins i also created this chunkier one and the fabric on this is a lot bulkier and wider because i cast on 12 stitches so it's pretty much twice as wide as the one i just created in the video tutorial for you all and you can see how this one fits a lot chunkier so it's a lot warmer okay and this one i still had yarn left this is what i had left after creating this really chunky one so my daughter's three and i can definitely crank her out one little cowl out of this probably even one for myself out of what i have left over so there is quite a bit of yarn on these two skeins all right so just keep that in mind and now thanks to our friends at lion brand yarns we are hosting a giveaway as well so two of you lucky viewers out there are gonna win two skeins each of the lion brand wool east thick and quick in this gorgeous purple color called fig and i already have the yarns here so i'll be shipping them out to you myself so you know what that means this giveaway is open to all my international viewers the link to enter the giveaway is included in the description box below so click on that to head over to my website and then all the details will be there on how you can enter to win the two skeins of yarn thanks again for watching i hope you enjoyed this video tutorial if you did make sure you hit the video with the thumbs up below share it across the different social media sites if you give the product a try and you upload a picture to social media tag me on it you can find me on instagram craftygemini and definitely post those pictures to my facebook page because i love to see what you're out there making from the crafty gemini tutorials thanks again for watching and i'll see you all next 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