- Oh my goodness, I get this question so many times.
Kristen, what do I do in this pattern to go
from this loom to that loom or this yarn
to that yarn?
I'm gonna help you with that today.
The following video is actually a small part
of a longer video on how to convert something
from needles, so if you have a needle pattern
and you're changing it to the knitting loom,
however the second part of the video
you can actually use to change from one loom pattern
to another loom, so if you don't have the right loom
that's mentioned in the pattern or you don't have
the right yarn, the right yarn, whatever's listed,
you can make that change and I go over all of that
with you, and there is math involved but don't panic,
because I have some interactive calculators
and I show you how to do it, plus we work
with multiples, have you ever seen something
like 12 plus one or two plus three multiple,
what does that even mean, Kristen,
and how do I figure that out when I start making changes?
Well, I go over that in the video.
Also, there is a completely converted lacy afghan pattern
that I also give you availability to
that is converted from a needle pattern,
so that's a little bonus and down in the link
in the description below you'll be able to find
all that mentioned plus the longer video if you want to.
Now if you needle knit as well, or you have a friend
who needle knits, they could even use this
to learn how to convert from one needle to the next
or one yarn to the next and you just make
the different tests and I talk about that in the video.
So go ahead and sit back and watch
and pull up a cuppa Joe or a cup of tea
and enjoy yourself, have fun.
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I want you to see how you can make a change.
So Kristen, what do I do if I want to
find out what loom to use?
Okay, the first thing is, I look at the size of
the knitting needles, and I have a chart
that's gonna help you, so I'm gonna grab my chart,
I've got a version of this on our website,
this is from a workbook that I have to help you organize
but this is, the version of this chart is on our site.
I'm going to go down to the needle size area
and I'm gonna look until I see the size 11 needle.
I see it fit in this category here that says
10 to 13 in the U.S. size or six to nine millimeter.
Well I have an 11 and it's eight millimeter.
Okay, that's really good.
I'm actually gonna go across now,
I'm gonna see what yarn weight it recommends,
let's look at that.
Oh, it recommends a five to six weight yarn,
well we're using a six, and let's go all the way over
and it says average stitches per inch,
that's two to three stitches per inch.
Well it says that there's eight stitches
and four inches on this one which is two stitches per inch
so we're good, so let's find out what loom we can use,
let's run our finger all the way back over.
This calls for a large gauge loom which is 5/8ths
or 11/16ths, so that's gonna be the closest loom
that we have, and we want to look at what looms we have
that are 5/8ths, if we don't have any,
we wanna get one, and we can find out
if we wanna make this pattern without any changes
then we would make it, like if we wanna use
a number six yarn, so if we wanna use this yarn here,
it's super bulky six-weight yarn,
then we would find a knitting loom
that would accommodate that, okay?
So this is, right here, is a 5/8ths gauge loom.
If you don't know what gauge is, go visit our website
and you can see the gauge charts and we'll give you
that link so you can see more about that,
but that's the spacing from center peg to center peg, okay?
We're expressing it in fractions and inches.
So 5/8ths is 5/8ths of an inch center peg to center peg,
I actually kind of line up one side of this groove
to the same side on the next groove
of the next peg and that helps me
when I put my measuring tape up against that.
So this one right here though, it only has 48 stitches.
It certainly doesn't have the 96 stitches
that are called out in the pattern, right?
So I'm gonna need to find a loom that's going
to accommodate that, alright?
So let's say I find that or I want to test it first
before I buy it.
Maybe I have this one in my stash and I wanna see
what does it look like?
Well I can knit up a sample, alright?
It's a really good idea to grab the yarn
or at least the size of the yarn that it calls for
in the pattern and work it on a loom that you have,
that's a great way to begin.
What I did is I worked up five stitches across
on both sides, so I have 10 stitches, so five and five
plus one full stitch pattern in the middle, okay?
So that is going to be the 13 stitches over here.
Okay, remember when we talked about the lace pattern
having a multiple of 12 stitches plus one?
So I've got 12 plus one plus the five
of the border and then the other five of the border.
So I cast on and I start kind of working through
this entire pattern.
And then I got this, and then I made another
stitch repeat and then this middle section right here
is what I can measure across, this little part
that has all that stockinette, it was actually
the easiest for me to measure and when I measured across,
I actually got 2.75 stitches per inch.
That was just out of the range for
the loom gauge that I had.
Remember I said two to three stitches per inch?
I would need to make my peg spacing bigger to match
and I just don't have the XLG loom
with enough pegs to match.
Or I could use a thinner yarn to fix it.
Okay, see how tight these stitches are?
See how you can't really see through it
as much as you could with the loom,
with the needle version?
The needle version I could see through it more,
it had this really lacy look, and this one
just doesn't do it for me, I didn't like it as much.
So I decided that I wanted to test it
on another yarn, so this one looks really lacy.
I really like this one.
This one is a number four, okay?
So I just did the same thing, I made me a sample
that had the same amount of stitches and worked it up.
Now I made sure to take it off of the loom
'cause of course it was really spread out,
I took it off the loom and tested it
and I even measured across to see how many stitches I got.
Well mine is just shy of four stitches, okay,
it's just shy of four stitches per inch on mine.
So once I have that information, I can actually
use a calculator to help me figure out what I need.
Now if you don't know how to do the calculations,
we've actually made it easier for you.
We actually have a free interactive calculator
on our website and you scroll down,
you can actually go to the cast on calculator
and it helps determine the number of stitches
that you need to cast on, you put in your width
in inches that you measured across.
So if you measured across one inch or two inches,
you would put that number and then of course
you count your stitches and then you put in
how many stitches you got.
I actually measured across in two inches
'cause I thought that was easier to measure
so I had two inches across that I measured
and I got a number of stitches, I actually got 7.5.
So I got seven and a half stitches,
and then the project width, I needed 46, okay,
so 46 inches across is what I needed,
so it says that my number of stitches to cast on is 172.5.
So I can do a couple of things with that.
I can say do I wanna go back to the other yarn,
or do I wanna get a loom that's gonna accommodate this?
Okay, so if I wanna do a loom that accommodates this,
then what I need to do is make a change
and figure out how many stitches I need to get this
to work with all these multiples
that they mentioned in here.
I know that I need an odd number of stitches
because it said so in the seed stitch here
and I know that my cast-on was 95 stitches over here.
The main thing I need to know is that I've got
five stitches on either side for the border,
so that's 10, and then I need all these stitches
in the middle here for the lace pattern,
and I need 12 plus one.
So I can take my 172 and a calculator,
let's go in here and find my calculator,
let's do it really big for ya (chuckles).
So I can take my 172
and I'm going to take out 10 stitches
for that border, okay.
That's 162.
Now I wanna take out my plus one, minus one.
I have 161 stitches that I need to see
about this multiple of 12.
So I'm gonna divide 161 by 12,
and I get 13.4167 blah blah blah (laughs).
So I can actually get 13 pattern repeats on here, okay?
So I'm just going to clear that out
and we're gonna say 13 times 12
so it's 13 repeats times the 12 stitches in the repeat
equals 156, we're gonna add our plus one,
'kay, that's 157, plus our five stitches
for each border so that's five plus five, is 167.
So I know in order to make it on this yarn here,
I need to cast on 167 stitches onto my pegs,
so now I need a loom that's 5/8ths,
and it will accommodate this many stitches.
So that's how I did this pattern.
So on my loom version, you can see that I've got
167 stitches to cast on.
Now I'm using the chain cast on,
you can use the long tail as well,
but I wanna point out that is going in one direction
on the cast on so that you can begin
your stitches how they are on the chart.
I've got the chart here in my own version
but you can see how on the needle chart,
how it starts your peg one from right to left
so you need to put your slipknot on left
and work to the right in order to get your peg one
set up for success and follow that chart much easier
and then you're not having to remember which way
you've gotta go, flip back and forth.
So we've got the rows that we need for the stitch pattern,
so what about how many rows that we need
to get the link that we want?
Well, we've got written in here that we are continuing
the lace pattern for eight repeats,
rows one through 20 to get that stitch repeat.
So you're gonna need more than that to do
the smaller, thinner yarn.
You're gonna need more repeats than eight.
In order to figure that out, let's flip over
to the other side here, we know that our rows
are one through 20 in the lace pattern, right?
So we go to our gauge here and we see
that there's 13 rows in four inches in this one
but on our swatch that we make, let's just use
my pattern for an example, on my swatch
that I made, in that smaller yarn, and measured,
it's 10 rows in two inches.
Okay, well that's five rows in one inch.
So we're just going to take 20 rows
divided by five, okay.
So we have 20 rows in our pattern,
so we're gonna say divide it by five,
which is four, so there's four inches
to make up one lace pattern.
Alright, so the link that we want in our pattern
is 54 inches and we go over to the needle pattern,
you see that we want 54 inches, so we take 54.
54, divided by four.
That gives us 13.5, that tells me that I want
13 repeats long of this stitch pattern, okay?
So if I just take an even 13, I know it's an odd number
but rounded number to 13, 13 times four inches,
that's 52 inches.
Well we also have the beginning and the end
rows here.
I'm just gonna kinda fast forward to how many
stitches we have in the rows and I've already estimated
that I'm going to do in my pattern
I actually have a setup of seven rows of seed stitch
and one row of the setup row before you get into
the lace pattern and then I have five, no,
let's see, six of the seed border.
I have rows one and two and then I repeat that twice more
so that's actually six rows plus the eight rows
so that's 14 rows, okay, and that's just determined
from the sample that I had done before
and so we're gonna say we have 14 rows
and our stitch guide, our gauge is telling us
that there's five stitches per inch
so we're gonna say divided by five,
so that's 2.8 inches, okay?
So I add the 2.8 inches to my 52 that we got before
with all those lace repeats, equals 54.8.
So my blanket is going to be about 55 and a half
or I'm sorry, 54 and a half or 55 inches.
So that is what is determined there
and then I've already determined yarn and all that
and I'm based upon some other things
and if you want more information, you can go
on the interactive calculator video
and know how much yarn to determine,
so we're not gonna go over that in the video.
But that is how I got this pattern converted
and you can do that too with other needle patterns.
Well how was that?
Has that helped you today?
If you have more questions, please ask in the comments below
and help each other, too.
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it's because I might just be having a ton of questions
or maybe I don't know that answer just quite yet.
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