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- Welcome to Good Knit Kisses: Techniques and Tutorials.
Hi, I'm Kristen.
We're teaching techniques and tutorials
at Good Knit Kisses to help keep you in stitches.
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of a longer tutorial that is a pattern.
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for you today.
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if you'd like more information or that full video tutorial.
All right, let's begin.
We're gonna work row one.
Go ahead and get your paper out.
I want you to make a quick note.
So when we're converting the right side row,
this is gonna be the front row.
All rows on loom knitting are the right side.
But on knitting, every other row,
when you're flat panel knitting back and forth,
is the right side row that they call out.
Now this particular stitch pattern is a one-row repeat
for needles.
So this is the right side row here.
So it's knit one, purl one, and you repeat
back and across.
Your entire row.
But when it goes to the second row,
needles get to repeat that same thing over and over,
but we need to do a change.
So we actually switch it.
And so imagine this is copied over to a second row,
and then what I do is I'm converting.
I just make it backwards.
So I'm gonna do a purl stitch,
which is the back side of a knit stitch.
So I'm gonna do that first.
I'm gonna purl, and then I'm gonna knit.
So it's the exact opposite of this one,
and I repeat across.
So that's the only difference.
So you're gonna wanna go ahead and write that in your notes.
And now, I'm gonna actually show you how to do it
if this is your first time.
So if it's not your first time, repeat across,
and then join me back up for the rest of the notes
on the pattern.
Okay, so we're going to knit the stitch here.
Okay?
Now, if you are using the 5/8ths loom,
you will just U-wrap.
So we're going to wrap around.
Oops. I'm sorry, I'm going the opposite direction.
We're going this direction.
We're gonna go, wrap around this way.
And make our working area come this way.
So I'm gonna make it come around
and make a U.
Okay.
So the open part of the U,
or let's just say the bottom part of the U,
goes in the direction where you want to travel.
So here we go.
That's a U-knit stitch.
And then we're gonna make a purl stitch.
So we're gonna go below this loop here.
We're gonna pull that up from the ocean.
Now purl is P-U-R-L.
It's not actually like a pearl.
So we make a loop.
We pull the old one off, and we put the new one on.
Okay? Tighten that up.
Not too tight.
And then we're gonna do the U-wrap again,
so we're gonna go to the front
and then between the next peg that we wanna go.
And then towards the back again,
and that gives us the extra slack that we need.
Lift up and over that stitch,
and you've made the U.
Be sure not pull it too tight
or else it's gonna become a flat knit stitch. Okay?
And if you got it too tight, just pull
on that to make it loose.
I'm going to the next one.
I'm gonna take my tool and go under,
pull up a new loop.
Take off the old, you can use your tool
or your finger.
I usually use my finger.
And then we'll just put that new one back on here,
and just continue all the way across.
So when you're working from right to left,
'cause we cast on all in one direction.
We cast on left to right.
When you're working right to left,
you're gonna start with the knit stitch.
When we get to the other side,
you'll see me start with the purl.
So join me back in a minute, and I'll show you
how to move on.
All right, I'm working my last stitch.
It is a U-wrap knit, so we continue that.
And now we're going to work this stitch again,
moving from left to right.
And this will be purl, so we go through
and purl that.
Keep it nice and loose.
And go on to the next one, and that's gonna be knit.
So it's knit, purl, knit, purl on the way over,
and now on the way back, on the second row,
it's purl, knit, purl, knit.
Now if you were working on a smaller gauge loom,
when you get to this section here,
you will go from the back of the peg
that you want wrapped, and you're gonna go
between that and the next peg, and then wrap
back all the way around. Okay?
If I'm working in a U-knit stitch,
I go to the front and then work towards the back. Okay?
So E-wrap is because it looks like a little cursive E,
and if I was continuing to go along,
it looks like an upside down cursive E.
Okay, so you're probably familiar with the E already,
but the U-wrap knit just goes like this.
So on this gauge loom, we make it a U.
On the small gauge loom, make it an E.
And that will make up for the size.
I wanna show you my two samples here.
So this sample here is working it in an E-wrap stitch
on the all-in-one loom. Okay?
You can see how that is.
The bottom part is where I was testing it
with the flat-knit stitch, and you can see
how it distorts this image here.
It's not supposed to look like this.
Here is a sample of my needles.
Okay?
So this sample was worked on needles.
It's looser.
This part is looser.
This does not look right.
See how it's distorted?
So starting here, and I marked it with my yarn,
I changed the yarn here, and you can really tell
that it kind of squishes it.
The E-wrap, you can kind of tell
that it's twisted in the back,
but in the front, it looks really great.
So I would say use the E on that other.
Now if you wanna use the 5/8ths
with the U-knit stitch, it comes out looking just like this.
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