Hey, everyone. Please excuse the mess back here, it's pretty crazy right now. I'm actually going to be moving soon, so there's crap everywhere, and also I'm trying to frantically decorate purses for Mardi Gras. I'm riding with the Krewe of Nyx this year and our special throw are purses so I've been trying to decorate them so that they're ready to be given out during the parade, but anyway... You'll probably also notice that the next few videos everything's gonna look the same because I'm going to batch-record a bunch of intro and outros just because it'll make the moving process easier for me. I' ll have time to get my studio put together and whatnot without having to try to rush to unpack and to find something to craft, so yeah. Because of this, some of the tutorials that I'm going to be doing are going to be more on the easy side and a few more craft hoards also, just because I'm trying to get through some of the stuff I already have and not buy more crap because eventually I'm going to have to move it to the new house that we hopefully get. Anyway, today is going to be a craft hoard. I'm going to be showing you guys how to make some easy knit stitch markers. I was actually inspired to do this because for the holidays my plan was to knit some gifts for my family, but the pattern that I was using required stitch markers and I didn't have any. In desperation I tried to use some of my rings. I have this ring on my pinky. Actually. it's for little tiny rings that I made a long time ago. They're just pretty simple and small so I was using them as my stitch markers, but something so simple like this I kept just like accidentally flinging them off while I was knitting and I had to search through the car later to find my rings because they were just all over the place, so I thought that when I got home I would make some that would be harder to fling off and I thought that I would show you guys how I made them. Unfortunately, this isn't going to be a how‑to‑knit tutorial. I don't know if I can really explain how to do it very well. I am self-taught. I learned from other YouTube videos and articles online and stuff so I probably do stuff a little bit weird if not completely wrong. I would suggest trying to find other people who know what they're talking about with knitting to see how they do it. I'll link a few tutorials that I've used down below if you are interested. So anyway I should have everything that I need for the stitch markers in my extremely messy jewelry drawer thing so I'm going to go rustle around in there and then get started. I'll be showing how to make three different types of stitch markers. You'll need large lobster clasps, leverback earring findings or large jump rings, decorative beads, normal jump rings, and needle nose pliers. Now normally you'd want to make a few of these. I think the most that I've used in a pattern was about four or five so I personally would probably make around ten, just in case I ever use a pattern that uses a lot of them for whatever reason. Anyway, initially I was going to make a few of these, but I'm moving soon and we've been slowly packing up the house, and guess what I did? I packed up a bunch of random craft supplies and apparently the rest of these things got packed up. I actually still had this single clasp out from a [?] that I tried to make because it was just sitting on my desk, so I just cut it apart to use the lobster clasp, so yeah. Thankfully I still had the other materials for everything else. Anyway, take a clasp and use a jump ring to attach your decorative bead to the clasp. That's it really. You can get more intricate with the beads but I like to keep them relatively simple so they don't catch on the knit or anything like that. To use them, simply slip onto the knitting needle when the pattern calls for it and then continue knitting. Later when you get back to that point, just slip it onto the next needle like so. The pattern should indicate when to slip it over so you'd know if you're in the right spot in the pattern or if you messed up. Another way you can use these clasping stitch markers is to hook it straight on to a stitch like this. Now I'm actually not really sure if this is the thing people do, but I feel like it might be? So you could do that if you wanted. So with this size of lobster clasp I can only go up to about a size 10.5 needle so you'll have to keep that sort of thing in mind when you're making these. I'm pretty sure you could probably get bigger lobster clasps if you really needed them for bigger needles, but yeah. One of the perks of using a lobster clasp is that if you messed up the placement or need to remove it for whatever reason, you can just unhook it, which you can't really do with the bigger sizes of needles I guess, but you can for these small needles. And if you're using circular knitting needles like these ones then you should be able to slip the stitches down onto the plastic string or wire or whatever that connects the knitting needles and then unhook it there. For the second type of stitch marker, it's pretty much the same as the first one but using a leverback earring finding instead of a lobster clasp. Just attach your decorative bead with a jump ring. Repeat a few times and you're done. So this kind is nice for moving or removing from the bigger sized needles. Since they open up pretty wide they should be easy to take off Now on to the last stitch marker, which uses a large jump ring instead of some sort of clasp. Again, just attach the bead onto the ring with a smaller jump ring and ta-da! With this kind, it's easier and cheaper probably to make them for larger needles. Just get bigger rings. Usually you can buy them in big packs so it keeps it relatively inexpensive. The obvious downside is that once they're in place you can't remove them until you get back to that spot but, honestly, these are the types that I'd probably use the most. I've just never really found myself needing to remove a stitch marker right away, so yeah. So there you go: Three different types of stitch markers that are hopefully harder to lose track of and will help you out with your knitting pattern needs. I hope you guys enjoyed today's video. 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