Knit a Balaclava with Me (+ FREE PATTERN) // Using scrap yarn to knit this winter's big trend

[@TKopra]

So happy seeing adults using/knitting balaclavas. Since my kids were born i have knitted them every winter new animal themed ones, my son likes fox and for my daughter a deere one. People always compliments their cute ears 😄

[@genteelcowgirl0119]

Aweeee i love foxs

[@pink_disaster8330]

using the scrap yarn to make it multicoloured was such a good choice! it looks super cute!

[@kellee1609]

I am a super beginner and I made this in 3 days! So happy to learn so many basic techniques (adding stitches, rib stitch, in the round, i cord etc.), and over the moon with how it turned out. Needed to find other tutorials about super basics for each (e.g. binding off i cord) but just wanted to say thanks!

[@inMuro]

this comment gave me the courage to start! I didn't really understand how she seemed to have boound off (without binding off) the top of the head piece, though, so if you know how she did that i'd be very happy to know. Now i just bound it off and picked up stitches everywhere, whereas she seemed to have been able to use the stitches she had on the separate needle (?) anywho, great tutorial so far

[@genteelcowgirl0119]

One question!!! How did you keep the stitches on the dpn but also cut off the working yarn?! When picking up stitches on the sides???

[@tonipidsadnick5149]

I had no idea these were trendy again :) I have pattern books from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s that include balaclavas. Yours looks stunning on you! One suggestion - instead of having the neck ribbing as one solid piece around, make it open with a few extra stitches and button hole. The button goes below and between the ear and front centre, or wherever you want it to be. That way, you don't have to pull the entire piece over your head (and hair!) to put it on or take it off. I love the way you finished it off! Way cool lady!

[@genteelcowgirl0119]

This is such a cool idea!!!!! 😍 love the buttons

[@gabriellalaki2435]

Can you help me find the pattern? Kind regards 💞

[@johannaberglund6525]

It looks amazing!! Love the scrappy element, all the colors look lovely together. I might have to knit myself a balaclava now...

[@talyabeyers]

I will absolutely be giving this a go! I've been thinking about making a balaclava/hood like this for ages, but somehow couldn't wrap my mind around this type of construction, which is also my favourite type of construction. Thank you for setting it out so simply, and I am way less intimidated now. Time to go stash diving!

[@susanklinefelter643]

Your Balaclava is stunning! It’s my favorite one!!!! I really love the colors and yarn you chose and enjoyed watching you make it. Thanks!

[@WellLovedKnits]

Thank you so much 💗

[@TS-ge9lv]

Immediately grabbed some scrap yarn and needles after watching this. Thanks for sharing! ✨

[@toosilverme]

Excellent tutorial for the construction! Thank you. Super cute colors 🎉btw.

[@helenorvana]

My main issue with balaclavas is the same as with scarves - having something up against my neck is really uncomfortable. That being said, that looks really nice, and makes me tempted even if I doubt I'd get much use 😅

[@theweatherisaokay4964]

Love how it become like a hood, super cool.

[@WellLovedKnits]

Yes! My favorite part about it too :)

[@bozenascheidel6240]

I love this pattern! really excited to try it out. Have you written out the instructions/needle and swatch size somewhere that we can access? having written instructions for knitting is one of the ways I can learn best.

[@genteelcowgirl0119]

So good!!! Im in love with this tutorial and will be making many of these 😍

[@thesilenceisdeafening]

Love this!! I haven't even watched the video yet. All I saw while scrolling were the pics and I was immediately hooked😅. It's the fact that it looks like it'll fit comfortably, and bonus!!, no sharp peaky back end. Just smoothly following the shape of the head. Oh, I am going to have so much fun with this, thank you!❤😁

[@sabrinatscha2554]

That sweater you’re wearing is gorgeous.

[@francescanassisi]

This is insanely beautiful, the colors, the shape, the yarns, I'm in love 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[@eowyn9766]

Can ou go into dept on how you connected the neck piece?

[@sophiac1761]

I free styled soooo many balaclavas with scrap yarn this winter also, love the icord finish on yours!! This is making me want to dig up my additional scrap yarn now 😆

[@summercampbell7363]

Wow, I adore this! So trendy and practical for keeping warm! I really want to try it- thank you so much for sharing your process!

[@annettehoffmeister4144]

What a lovely balaclava 🧶😊

[@giiiiiuuuuuuuu]

the most stunning color combo i've ever seen 😭❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@knits_by_helen]

I love the way this looks!

[@ekholderness]

It is fabulous! Just what I have been looking for. Please do you have a written version of this pattern?

[@melaninfreeflowing4248]

I got so hype when I saw my notification‼️ so excited for this video 🙌🏾. Love everything you make ❤️

[@WellLovedKnits]

Thank you so much!!

[@melaninfreeflowing4248]

@@WellLovedKnits you’re welcome!!

[@LUcyaSews]

I bought my first pattern ever last week, and it was one of yours 🥰 so now I’m making V-neck vest and I’m having so much fun 🤩 , thank you ❤️

[@BeccaL2016]

it's really cute style! kinda like a hooded sweater without wearing a sweater

[@lauraraines767]

That's so cute I love it. Definitely will keep you warm.

[@jennid123456]

They certainly look cozy 🙂🙂 and your yarn looks so nice and warm!! I love the scrappy stripes💕

[@KarlaRodriguez-mx2od]

I think is awesome! And the color combination is perfect.

[@nynlou]

hi, so nice! is there still the pattern somewhere to get or to purchase? :) would be amazing

[@indrani8907]

I love this video!!! Thank you for making it.

[@adrenalinjunkie9682]

Scrappy hat season is my favourite season 😌

[@susangobin8726]

Thank you. I was really hoping and looking forward to receiving instructions.. Really lovely and easy to make.

[@LordRubino]

Beautiful tutorial. Very inspiring for the "random" colorwork! Bellissimo

[@lindaphelan7611]

AMAZING!!!! Love your color combo!!

[@Yt-hb4wh]

This is a great charitable knitting project!

[@drkh2010]

Your Balaclava is absolutely beautiful.

[@CatherineAuld]

The balaclava turned out so nice! 😍I've been umming and ahhing whether to knit one up too. Maybe I'll just have to give it a shot! I thought it was interesting to use K2tog through the back look rather than the front loop, when you do the icord. Does this give a different effect?

[@WellLovedKnits]

Oh funny! I never tried it the other way. I figured working through the back loop was what helped the curl of the cord

[@AlyssaL]

I justtt made a balaclava using this video and accidentally k2tog through the front loop - it made these unintended "stitch-like" loops that are visible in the front!

[@jenniferbarrett3272]

So cute and a great way to use up scrap yarn that is fun to do! Thanks!

[@phoebeshaw6174]

I’m so confused how you worked around the U shape around the crown piece, how do I go back and forth without closing it shut ???

[@meeshmeeshmeesh9]

I have the same question!

[@buttbutt7376]

work to the end then flip around! js think of it as u knitting a flat rectangle :)

[@midorihat]

This would be a super duper later reaponse 😅 but you can work back and forth in the U like that because you haven’t joined the round. (You do that once you’ve reached the bottom & are ready for the ribbing) 😊 So even though you are using circular needles that are connected (like magic loop style), you’re working that ‘U’ back and forth on your needles - treating exactly as if it was flat. Hope that helps someone!!!

[@munchiYT]

This turned out so beautiful, can’t wait to try it out!

[@jjnewcomer4745]

I have try and I learn some thing new so thank to sharing

[@glittle1000]

I am going to make this and attach it to my sweater collar! I was wondering how I put a hoody on it and this will work! TY 🤗💕 I will make a single one to wear with various coats too!

[@TheHarryKnit]

I love a good scrappy yarn project! I don't really have the need for a balaclava for I do love the look!

[@kimmybriggs3626]

What weight wool would work for a one type of yarn? Thank you i LOVE it

[@mariehuygens3631]

Love the video! Also strangely well timed, this hat at least won't fly away with the storm going on in Belgium. I hope you're alright and it didn't bother you too much.

[@rebeccagibson7881]

I've never seen anyone push it back like a hoodie, and it's so cute, that's also my fave style of balaclava (have to make my own now!)

[@eva1malene144]

I wish this video existed before I knitted my own, I went with the same construction but the scrappy effect is so beautiful and now I want a balaclava like that 😅

[@thehobbitivy]

This might actually convince me to do this. Winter in Scotland is never-ending so it’s not like I wouldn’t get use out of it. 🤔

[@magorzatabozyk1961]

Thank you so much for this video. It was so inspiring for me! I was looking for a nice pattern but I couldn't find anything nice. So I made my own first balaclava with your video and it looks amaziiing. ❤️❤️❤️

[@MrMonet111]

Knit one earlier in the fall. I walk my dog and some days are so cold. Wonderfully warm and I even add an extra hat when it is windy.

[@olivia.8152]

Thank you for a great and inspiring video!

[@hlneals]

this tutorial is fabulous! will start one tonight! thank you!!!

[@619to253]

It looks super cute 😍

[@joancollier4488]

Love this, the only thing I need to really concentrate on is the final edging.... thanks so much it looks great!

[@polinaperemitina1938]

Hello! Thank you so much for this video, I immediately picked up my scrap yarn. I am still a beginner, can I ask what did you do right after knitting the crown? I am a bit confused as it doesn't look like a bind off (or does it? ....) Thank you so much !!

[@polinaperemitina1938]

*before picking up stitches

[@WellLovedKnits]

I just slid the live stitches onto a spare needle and picked up stitches with new yarn! No extra step

[@marysmith2310]

Love this. Definitely going to destash with a couple of these.

[@WellLovedKnits]

Love that!!

[@sarahconnorceramics]

I don’t get how you knit around that crown part. I’d love to work to a pattern to make this cause I LOVE how it looks!

[@p2918-h1w]

Looks so cooooool!!!

[@swandeparscau5021]

Hello, thank you for the tutorial. The only thing is that I have a real problem with measurements. I used the same material and the same rows as you, but it is still too small. I saw that you put the measurement in cm, but i'm struggling to know which cm is which part while I'm crocheting. Can you give the cm per step? Sorry and thank you.

[@xixi9166]

Omg i need this for when i use motorcycle taxis

[@laurelstieg9375]

Could be my next project..thx a million.❣

[@tallestdrinkofwater6979]

So cute! I love it

[@demi6342]

Oh my goodness. I absolutely loved this! Thank you so much for the tutorial Bethany ❤️ I have been really struggling to make the beanie no 1 from my favourite things knitwear so I might frog that and try this instead! Thank you beautiful 🥰

[@melissamolina658]

I love this! I found a good one and I just finished the crown, but I have a question. When you are going to pick up the stitches on the side do you do a slipknot first and then insert them into the stitches you're picking up? Or after?

[@jenniferbarrett3272]

Bethany, how many stitches did you cast on at the chin part of the ribbing, if any? I couldn’t tell in your photos. 🤗🧶 The balaclava combines hat, hood and cowl together-love it.

[@salamadavidsbhana3264]

This was such a fun knit, thank you ✨

[@lucemaurice2906]

Love this!! But i just have one question, im stuck at minute 10,when you finished the "top"? Where do we continue tu create the all hat?? :)

[@robinrothe2915]

Looks great and simple to do. Thanks,

[@angelicavis]

I just made this thanks to your tutorial, thank you :D It's so comfy!

[@madgasser8672]

What would you call the cast on you're using to connect the two sides at the chin/neck?

[@hf_77]

Wow super!😍 thank you so much!!❤

[@pb.honey.sandwich]

Just finished making my own! Fabulous tutorial ☺️❤️

[@easep1364]

Sooooo perrrrrrrttttyyyyy❤

[@jocevans]

omg i looooove this. thank you for posting the process. :)

[@sandykl]

Do you have information on your gorgeous knitting needles? I am so tired of bamboo.. they feel delicate.

[@elipe7419]

Bellissima balaklava e ottima tecnica di lavoro grazie😃!

[@tovesarnesjo3918]

The balaclava is beautiful! But I don’t understand how it looks purled both on the inside and on the outside? Please explain 😅

[@dariatzimoulis2869]

Since you keep doing garter stitch, the rows actually alternate knit/purl but the purl just shows up a lot more. If you look closely every other row is knit but it’s tucked in between the larger purl rows!

[@abbibutton]

She posted! Yay 🤗

[@WellLovedKnits]

Aww it’s been too long 💕

[@EmeseVida]

hahaha I literally clicked on the video because of that sweater :D You're so cute for addressing it.

[@carat.526]

This seems so simple I might actually have to try it. Do you know how much yarn you use or at least how much you’ll need to make one?

[@marilynlongcoy9914]

It looks great!

[@jjnewcomer4745]

Very nice and I like to try and I will thank

[@lexycruz2667]

On 8:53 how did you bind off while keeping loops on the needles ??

[@irem5971]

Struggling exactly with the same thing 😢😢 did you find out? Dont even know how to look that up

[@sercanalaca3666]

Renkleri çok güzel birleştirdin, çok güzeldi.

[@reneetedesco9287]

So cute! I’m gonna make one too!

[@genteelcowgirl0119]

How many yards did this take exactly? I want to knit if I have enough to make one

[@alicelangham2715]

My first thought on opening this video and seeing the sweater "What is THAT and where can I find the pattern".

[@MiriamFuß]

Hey any chance you found out how the pattern for the blue one could look like? The one with the tight neck and the loose head part :)

[@chrissy24-7]

I'm Team Scrap! 💕 I'd make chunky mittens to match

[@amanda.strutt]

LOVE this so much!!!!!

[@sanjapanja]

I love it! I want to make one!

[@linu8872]

Hey! Thanks so much for your video, your balaclava looks amazing! I am a beginner and still need to get used to knit with the circular needles, you said you used 6mm needles... but how big is the circle, like how long are the needles? Thanks!

[@kleostraub]

Blown alpaca blend yarn with kind of a fuzzy halo sounds like Kos from Sandnes Garn! Is that it? (only on my mind because I'm knitting with it right now and it looks the same!)

[@jobradshaw86]

Soo cute. I’ve been really put off by memories of horrible itchy ones as a kid.. but maybe the answer is knit my own???

[@WellLovedKnits]

I think it might be!!

[@nimvaughen9895]

super cool!!! thank you so much.

[@simovj]

Love this pattern so much!! How much yarn do you think I will need to make this?

[@gabriellalaki2435]

How do I find the Pattern? Can you please help? Great video! 💞

[@thisteena8915]

super cute!!