- [Kristen] Today on how to loom knit,
we'll be working on the E-wrap stitch.
This is lesson 3.4.
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In this video, we'll be covering
just how to make the stitch.
Let's get started on the E-wrap stitch.
For this video, you're going to need to cast on 22 stitches.
I'm gonna demonstrate on this loom over here.
Go ahead and start casting on it.
Doesn't matter if you're doing the chain cast on,
the double E-wrap or if you do on the E-wrap flat.
Pause your video and meet me back up
for working the stitch.
Ah, the E-wrap stitch.
Okay, so this one is super easy.
You are just simply wrapping around all of the pegs.
This is that same stitch that
is in lots of manufacturer looms instructions,
and they just do that one
because it's super simple to teach,
and easy and it is worth knowing how to do it.
You're just going to take it,
take the yarn and go in between the next peg.
Go in front of the peg you're working on
and then around to the back, okay?
Gonna go behind the next peg.
Go around in front,
back in the direction you were,
go in between, and then come around.
So you've done this before in the cast on.
You've made the upside down cursive E,
and that's all it is.
So you really already knew this one,
and you may have already done this before
when you got interested in loom knitting.
Here's me working from the side.
I didn't even talk about this
and holding your loom,
but a lot of times when I'm E-wrapping,
I'm actually working to the side.
And then I just hold that last stitch and I knit off, okay.
And it locks it in place,
and you can continue
taking your yarn and letting it go
and working on your stitches and knit off.
I do have a tip about this though, okay.
So this is the easy way to do it
and it holds on to it, okay.
However, when you're working back and forth
and around and around in a circle,
which we talk about knitting it around at another point,
what happens is knitting it off at one point here
causes a tension issue between
the first and last peg,
and you can actually get some laddering.
So the way to make it really consistent is
you can actually just E-wrap
maybe a couple at a time and knit off,
and then do a few more.
So, anywhere from like two to four stitches at a time,
and then just keep working on your project,
and not worrying about having an inconsistent stitch.
So you could totally do that if you want.
And plus, E-wrap is used in other patterns
and you might do a few knit stitches
and then do some other types of stitches.
And so, you need to know that you can do it
one at a time, two at a time.
You don't always have to wrap
the entire row all at once.
All right, so troubleshooting on the E-wrap stitch.
Of course you can come back here
and unknit that stitch, and undo it, okay.
But what happens if you have to redo something
and you see that maybe something came off.
Maybe your stitch came off here.
You'll notice when you take it off,
there is a twist back here
and you may be putting something back on.
So maybe you take this off with scrap yarn,
like something on here,
and you want to get it back on the loom
and you notice, hey, why is this really loose
and these are tighter?
Well, that's because there was a twist,
and you have to know where it was twisted before.
So, when this was twisted last time,
it was going in this direction here.
So what I do is I take my yarn, okay,
and then I take my loop,
I take my yarn and make a loop around this direction.
Okay, just as if I was, just as if I was
wrapping in that direction.
So I can go this direction,
or I can go in this direction.
Either way, depending upon the way I was wrapping.
So if you remember we talked about
how when you go in one direction,
it makes the bump angled one way
and then the other direction
can angle it the next way.
So, you want to remember which way it was going
so that when this comes out,
it'll look consistent, okay.
So, if I was E-wrapping like this,
then the right part of this peg
is gonna need to come around first.
So wrapping like that.
No, yeah, like that.
Anyway, so then you get your twist
and you're good to go,
and you can continue working on your loom.
Well, that was much faster, wasn't it?
This one's also gonna get really big.
This is gonna be about an eight by eight sample.
So, for your homework on the E-wrap,
which should be no problem and lightning fast,
this is going to be 32 rows.
So knit 32 rows,
go ahead and put in your scrap yarn,
and you know the drill.
We'll see you for the next video.
Our next video is working on the purl stitch,
and we'll do a similar small sample,
and then after that,
we'll learn how to bind off
and you'll be doing these over and over again
until you get really good and comfortable with it.
All right, you know the drill.
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