How to Choose Knitting Yarn

Video Transcript

"Now we're going to talk about selecting a yarn. Usually in the pattern it'll give you some suggestions of types of yarns that work best for what you're doing. For a beginner, the easiest kind of yarn is something like this that doesn't have any nubbies on it. This is a nubby yarn. When you knit this up. You can just regular knit pattern and it'll look like you're doing something really fancy because of these balls. I would suggest that you do a practice piece of knit with a real easy inexpensive yarn. You could probably get this plain old stuff that grandma used to knit with at even Target, K-Mart, Wal-Mart, any of those discount places. Get a piece of inexpensive stuff to start with, practice all your stitches and then when you're comfortable doing it. It shouldn't take you more than an hour to get comfortable, maybe a day. Then you move onto more exotic yarns. This is again, another easy yarn. The reason I brought this out is I'm making this a blanket for my friends. I'm doing with this because it's a good neutral baby color because they're not telling if it's a boy or a girl. I think it's going to be a boy though. I'm taking 2 balls of this and I'm knitting together as two. Even though one of them is really slim, two of them together make a nice thick but light for the baby kind of a blanket."