The Noble Pagan Forums - Learning to Loom (Knit)

So I was helping my sister clean out her shed the other day and we stumbled upon her grandmother's knitting loom machine. This thing hails from 1975 and the cheery gal on the front is so excited about the hundreds of items you can easily make with this hand crank machine.
With winter on it's way I said "sure why na" and asked if I could take it home to try it out. She said if I could figger it out, then we could make blankets n stuffs.YAY!
Sadly the machine makes tubes and little button puffs. All those projects that cheeky woman on the cover of the craft projects book was so excited about were really just different ways to sew little flattened hacky sacks together in order to MAKE something other than.....little flattened hacky sacks.
Um no.
No thank you much.
However cranking the machine was fun and we discovered a use for some of those tubes ( with a little creativity and tweaking of the design). This brought me to hand looms for knitting. I always did wonder how one used those circular shaped wracks with the knobw on them to make sweaters...... Well now I know.
I have never knitted ( conventionally) in my life however the idea of threading a yarn around some pegs seemed much easier to learn than taking to sticks and poking loops of yarn into each other. I never understood it. After making several puffs with that 30+ old machine though I got the idea of how the looms ( wracks with pegs) work.
So even though I crochet just fine I find myself taking up the art of loom knitting ( it could be that the last afghan I attempted to crochet came from a book that said it was a 7 day project and in 7 days I felt horrifically lied to even though I spent hours on the thing.....it is about 1/3 the way through.....when I am done getting over that feeling I will return to that afghan).
Currently I am seeing if I can make some arm warmers with my new kit.
Do wish me luck!

C.S.

Update here on mah newfound skillz.....
So the kit comes with a "how to make a hat" bit. No thank you. I wanna work on arm sleeves.
I found a pattern, looked up the stitch and other than slightly mangling the thumbhole portion of the pattern it is actually nice, comfy and wearable!
I am so proud of myself!
I see many hours of looming, looming ahead.


C.S.

Another update here.
I have successfully made two pairs of arm sleeves. And in different sizes no less!
YES!
this is so much FUN!
I'll post pics soon.

C.S.

Thanks for the lesson! My scarf is almost 12" long now! Guess that makes it a neck warmer? LOL

It's that damn FLAT ( twisted knit?) stitch! And here I complimicate things.....
serves me right though as it IS my nature....
I am glad you are having fun though.
See I told you!
"So easy a......can do it!"




C/S/

The knitting godesses have forsaken moi!

Hi guys! Poking my head in for some yarn talk. I have desperately tried to knit and crochet, but my head can't seem to wrap around the concept. I can sew just fine, which is a mysterious skill to some, so I guess I can count myself lucky. Anyways, I am a fellow knitter/loomer/crocheter in spirit and just wanted to say how much I appreciate all of the crafty talk here.

I'm really glad you guys figured out your looms. I've been loom knitting hat/scarf/arm warmer sets for years. I have a set for myself in each color of the rainbow and one with a rainbow on it.

Another thought, what with the colder weather coming up, Is something that I'm working on my third year doing. I work on sets all summer and fall and by Black Friday I usually have about 20+/- sets. I take them to the angel trees in the malls and donate some with out Angel gifts and some I take to the Center for Women and Families downtown and donate with the clothes my friend gather. (I don't like letting go of my clothes as my fashion is more eclectic than my religion )