Hi, welcome to GoodKnitKisses. I'm Kristen and I’m here with my friends
at allfreeknitting.com and they've asked me to produce a video on the
basics of loom knitting
you may be curious about loom knitting
you're a regular knitter or crocheter or you just don't do either of those things
but you've been curious about it
it's very easy. There are several stitches from regular knitting
that you can produce on a loom
and they are just done in a different fashion it can be quite addicting and
I’m here to show you a few of the looms and some of the yarn that would be suggested and a
few of the projects that you can do. Let's get started!
First I’d like to tell you about circle looms or round looms
this particular pack came from Provocrafts Knifty Knitter series and you can
buy all kinds of brands different ones are hard
plastic or wood or even a bendable
plastic a pliable plastic
you can actually make them as well. all the pegs are standard they all come
with a routed groove on the outside to help you when you're knitting over
and
the gauge
is the space between the peg since all the pegs are
one
size if you noticed this peg is the same as this peg
but the gauge is a little bit bigger so and then this. This one is
bigger
in size, in circumference
allowing a larger project to take place on here, you can actually create
hats and you can create
flat panels as long as you don't connect all the pegs
you lots of things on here starting here this would be a baby or small and
preemie
child hats and this would be a toddler size hat
if you make the stitches loose enough and if you've got an adult who has a very small
head that's a perfect one for that
and don't put more than one
strand of yarn
this green one here, the next size up is more for adult hats
and this size here
would be for an extra large adult hat or if you wanted to have several
strands
that made it a tighter knit, this would be
excellent for that. And my husband actually has a
little big bigger head and I used two strands and it made a perfect hat
also I use and make cocoons on that
for little babies
as photo props or
whatever else, basically it's a long big hat.
This ones called a bloom loom, it's a very small loom, you can make flowers on
them
this is your knitting tool (I’m missing a peg here, but it's in the other room)
knitting tool that comes with your set you can also buy another one if for
whatever reason it broke or you
need extra for a more looms and projects
but these are standard
this is called a spool loom
and it creates a round
and you can pick either this side
or this side and you could make a nice thick or smaller
i-cord
on that
it's a nice handy tool
these down here are just a system for making pompoms if you like or you can make them
by hand
or any other fashion and they are just
helpful. if you'd like to know how to do that
and these are your rectangular looms or long
looms
it's basically like a rake with
instead of one side it's got two
and this actually came in a set of four there's one a little
smaller than this one it comes about to here
and then a blue one that’s longer
then this and it's about twenty four inches i believe
so these are the looms that you can use
I suggest you
go to your local craft store and find what's near you, grab one
Start Looming. It’s a lot of fun!
Thanks for tuning in to GoodKnitKisses, I'm Kristen. Happy Looming!