- [Kristen] Hey, loom knitters!
This is Kristen with GoodKnit Kisses,
and I am so excited to present to you
the new Knitting Loom Guide
in electronic version, as well as this paperback.
The GoodKnit Kisses Knitting Loom Guide
has all the information you need
to find the right loom for your project
in this easy, quick reference guide.
Electronic and in paperback.
Stay tuned for more information.
Welcome to GoodKnit Kisses.
We're all about helping you stitch your love
and love your stitches.
Well everyone, I am so excited about this project.
This is the best book, hands down,
to find all the information you need
for just the right loom for your project.
There are over 500 looms here
and all the references for gauge and pegs
and type and brand and all kinds of things,
and I'm really excited
to show you everything there is in here.
Again, you can get this in paperback
or you can get an electronic version.
It comes out for the 2019 edition,
September 10th, 2019,
and we will begin to update this yearly
as looms are updated and discontinued
or added into the marketplace.
It has well over 500 looms
with all their categories and gauges
and peg counts, whether they're adjustable
or double knit
and we're gonna jump right in.
I'm gonna show you everything that's in this book
to have it at your fingertips.
Click down on the link below
to just jump ahead and get one,
or stay tuned and I'll show you how it works on the eBook
as well as in the paperback.
The Knitting Loom Guide is very small.
It fits is in the palm of your hand.
It's about five and a half by eight and as half inches
in width and height.
It's very thin,
but it's super compact
and shows you everything you need to know
and you can see it very clearly.
If you get the electronic version, of course,
you can zoom in and get it even bigger
if you have visual needs to see it bigger.
We've got it with tabs in here
to find the right section that you need like that,
or the electronic version, you can jump around.
I'm gonna go ahead and show you the paperback version here.
So we're just gonna flip on in.
We've got our table of contents.
These are the things that you'll find in here,
of course, our introduction.
Then we talk about the loom materials,
the different plastic looms versus wood.
And which vendor has which product
and so there's some easy lists that are in there.
The abbreviations that we use inside this book are here.
Now this is not a how-to book for loom knitting,
but this has all the looms
that you're gonna need to know when, say,
you're converting a pattern over, say you get a pattern
and you want to find the loom that they're calling out.
See if you have the right one
or if you're just a collector.
Here, we've got it sorted by brand,
and this is on page six,
and when I jump over to page six here,
you can see this section
that starts all this little tab,
this little gray tab.
This is every loom by brand,
so we've got Boye Looms,
CinDWood Looms,
we've got Cottage Looms,
DA Looms, this is a discontinued line,
but it's still there for people who have that out there.
Darice, Horizon,
In the Attic,
Flexilooms, Kiss Looms,
Knifty Knitter, Knitting Board or KB Looms
or Authentic Knitting Board.
Knit UK, Leisure Arts,
Martha Stewart/ Lion Brand,
Loops, which is Michaels Stores.
Noble Knitter, Yarnology,
which is Hobby Lobby,
and then we jump over to looms by gauge.
Let me go back over here.
Here's some of these showing the plastic looms,
wood base looms.
If you've got plastic and wood,
the Knitting Board looms,
which ones are all plastic, 100% plastic
and which ones are wood base
There's those abbreviations, okay.
So we've got,
go back to table of contents.
We've got it sorted by gauge, as well,
where we've got extra fine looms all by themselves,
so if you just need to find an extra-fine gauge loom,
which is also called an EFG,
you can find all of them together.
It also goes for fine gauge looms,
small gauge, regular gauge,
large gauge, extra-large gauge, and jumbo,
and then we have it sorted for adjustable looms.
So here's all these right here where it says gauge
and it's sorted by the gauge,
and then it jumps over to adjustable looms only.
So these are looms that you can,
something like here
where you've got a little adjuster here.
Also one like this.
It has like a little slider
and you can adjust it inward,
and here's an example of one of these charts.
So what you're getting to see
when you see these looms are which gauge it is,
the spacing in inches, which brand,
the loom name, the peg count,
and the color and that's just on adjustable looms,
and then we go through every single one
in order of their gauge size.
So the smallest gauge, which has the most stitches per inch
all the way to the largest gauge in adjustable looms,
and then which,
would actually have less stitches per inch.
And then we jump over to double knitting looms,
and these looms are the ones that have pairs of pegs
and you can, say, like this one,
this loom right here.
You can actually put a spacer in
and it becomes a double knit loom like one of these
where you're working back in forth
in pairs of pegs, okay?
These can do that, as well,
as well as these Knifty Knitter ones that you see in here,
and so they're all listed here,
and you can see how many pairs of pegs
in the range, like the minimum amount you can get
and all the way to the max in that particular line.
And it just keeps going.
Also it tells you what color it is
or if it's just a wood base or MDF base loom.
And also it's in order of gauge.
Now it doesn't count the spacing.
It's just counting,
it doesn't count the spacing between the boards,
but it showing the spacing between the pegs.
And then the next thing after adjustable
and double knitting looms
is the loom gauge equivalence chart.
This is like this super, super chart
that we've created
so you can see all these gauges.
You're like Kristen, "I don't know what that is!".
Well, extra fine gauge is showing the spacing
between the pegs,
is 3/16 of an inch.
That gets you seven to eight stitches per inch.
So these are the different types of looms there are.
A lot of your medium-weight yarn uses small gauge looms,
and they also are called SG
and these are the spacings that you can see
from manufacturers,
and you get about four to five stitches per inch.
Now of course, that ranges on your stitch pattern
and things like this.
This is just average stockinette, which is all knits,
and then it all goes up to large gauge,
extra large gauge, and jumbo,
and it has all the peg spacing in between.
And average stitches per inch,
and then here is the loom gauge
with recommended yarn weight,
and so if you've got an EFG loom,
then you would use this kind of weight in the U.S.,
or if you're in the UK or Australia,
then you would use this weight and so on
for each of the levels.
And in this chart back here,
is if you're converting something,
say you've got a needle pattern
and it says that you want to use a U.S. size eight needle,
then you're gonna look at this and say, okay,
U.S. eight to 10 needles,
I'm gonna use a regular gauge or RG loom
and then I'm gonna come over here
and find my RG loom,
and I need a half inch or 9/16 inch spacing.
And you can even confirm,
it may even say how many stitches per inch they got
and it could be in that three to four range
and you can kind of gauge it from there,
so it's super handy.
Let me go back here,
so that's really the layout of the book.
Let's go dig in a little bit deeper.
Whenever I go to gauge,
we sort the looms by gauge
and then you get another one of these little charts here,
but at the top of each gauge,
you can find the EFG again,
the C2C spacings that are available,
and then you can also see the yarn weights
that are recommended in U.S. and UK, Australia.
The needle size,
then also a crochet hook,
'cause sometimes, you might want a crochet border
or there's a hook size that usually corresponds
with a needle size
when you're looking at particular yarn,
so that's what that is.
And then how many average stitches per inch,
and that's for each one.
So this is EFG and this is fine-gauge looms,
which is FG,
and then we got small gauge and so on and so on.
And that's everything that you have in the book,
so if you, like,
on the back here, I've got it written really well.
It says need to find a large-gauge loom
with at least 30 pegs?
Okay, you can, we can help you find it.
Want to know which looms are adjustable?
Want to know which ones are double knit
on any fine gauge?
You can find it right here in this book.
Let's jump over to the e-version.
I'll show you how that works.
So in this electronic version,
you can see I've opened it right up
and it just works just like a book
where I flip the pages,
and you flip it one by one.
And if I go to the contents page,
I can just click on the area that I want.
If I want to see all the small gauge looms by gauge,
I can just click right there
and it will jump over to that part, okay?
So now I'm on that page,
and you can see that I've got everything I need.
If I need to zoom in,
you can see me zoom in.
Also, you can see on both the,
on the paperback version and on the electronic version,
you can see these grayed out portions.
Those are discontinued looms,
so we went ahead and just included them in here,
because many of them are still found on the marketplace.
So even if the looms get discontinued
and they've been on the market before,
we've gone ahead and included them.
They're usually looms that you could find
everywhere in the world or most places in the world.
Some of the really small vendors
that don't sell anymore, we're not really showing them.
But DA Looms, we included,
and some other ones because they were popular at one point
and you can still find them.
So anyway, you can find everything that you need
in this book as it comes to looms,
and I really hope that you'll pick up one.
Be sure and click down below
and let us know how excited you are
and be sure and click in that description
to get your copy.
Again, they come out on September 10th of 2019.
They're on pre-order right now in paperback
and they'll, the eBook will be ready on September 10th.
I hope you have a great day and happy loom knitting!