hi and welcome back to GoodKnitKisses I'm Kristen and I’m here with my friends
at allfreeknitting.com
talking about the basics of loom knitting this is part 2 of that series
talking about the appropriate yarn to use
there's lots of yarn out on the market place you can use acrylic
or wool or cotton
handspun
and really anything
you and any yarn that you can get you can put on a loom
you want to be aware of what your gauge is
the gauge
is the space between the pegs all the pegs are going to be the same
the same size but it's the gauge in between the size in between. In regular
knitting the size of your gauge is the size of your needles but and these are all going to
be the same so
the wider your peg the more strands your going to use or the bulkier the
strand needs to be
for example if you're new to
crafting in general with
yarn you want to turn over your yarn and
look at the suggestions on what knitting needles to use what
crochet hook to use and then this right here is telling you this is a bulky number five
this particular one still is a
thinner strand but it's bulky because it's got a lot of softness to it
this one here this is a rainbow classic from sensations it's actually
a Joann fabrics
yarn and this particular one right here is from
Lion Brand
yarn and this one is called homespun it's also a five
but
it's quite a bit bulkier
then this
number five
so if you can tell on that, this one is
a thicker
bulkier yarn so you might actually only want to use one
as opposed to maybe two on this one. Just depending on your project
it's also a good idea to work up a small swatch
of what your project is before you really
keep going a swatch might be a small
six peg wide
by
six or seven pegs long
to get an idea of what your
project is going to work up to. if you think you need an extra strand or
take a strand away then by all means do that
you can also combine
and you can combine this with the black that's another
small thin one to work in with it to give it a little bit bulk to it
this one right here is a red heart probably a number four
this is another one from Lion Brand, Vanna's Choice
and this is also a number four
so there's different ones used number fours, fives and sixes are
perfect you may just need to use two or more strands with it
another kind of
yarn is going to be at cotton
this particular one is a Peaches n Cream and i've actually wound these together
and made
two strands next to each other wound up and I use these together on my
smallest long loom rectangular loom to make a nice dish cloth I added two more
strands just made two balls and pull them together
I mean two more balls with two strands and made a pot holder a nice thick one
I used a cotton so that it wouldn't melt. If I used an acrylic it could melt when i put
a hot pot on there so that's something to keep in mind
about your project
here's a few of the things that I have personally done
and here's a
just a little baby hat and this is actually handmade
pom pom I didn't use the pom pom maker
this is with two strands of just your regular red heart
super saver
this is just rolling up on the brim I just made it
in a stockinette – this is actually an e-wrap stitch and i didn't put a brim on it
also. if you don't put a brim on your projects when you're following the
directions
then you're going to get this rolling up
in that direction
this is that pattern that i have actually created myself
and with one strand and
nice for a little baby hat and added a little crochet flower
it's kind of a stretchy
pattern
and another one
where I’ve made it to where it's a little longer
and rolled it up
for a brim
and I’ve made the stitch in a garter stitch so that it doesn't roll up on me
I’ve been it long so that
it can go down over baby's ears or what not and this is just a nice long
cocoon to match it
and this is made on the largest
round loom
and made it to where it does roll over
in a nice soft
yarn here
and then this little water bottle sitting here
I’m just showing that
you can make a little
sort of a sock
a little cozy to go over it
that was a liter bottle but
which is thirty-two oz but I’ve got one you can actually it's made to
put a sixteen ounce bottle in here and then I can add
an i-cord onto that and have a little holder
so there's a few little things you can do. You can also make socks on
these looms and lots of different things
this one right here is
I’m doing a
double rib stitch
and alternating it to make a honeycomb
and it's just a little lovey for a child but you can make it on a bigger scale
for a blanket or
just a nice afghan or lapghan
so these are just a few projects that you can create I hope you have a lot of
fun
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