Good introduction to Loom Knitting

Here is an excerpt from Knitty Gritty with Isela Phelps. The excerpt introduces viewers to the loom knitting tools.

You can find other videos explaining Loom Knitting here.

Tip: Alternate to 2-yarn Strand Loom Knitting

On one of the email lists that I belong to, a member recently posted the following tip, which I thought was worthwhile of reposting on here. The original poster asked what the best way to loom-knit when the pattern suggested that two-strands of yarn be used.

You can also use one strand of yarn, wrap your loom three times, and lift one loop over 2. Wrap once again, lift one loop over 2. Continue. This gives a nice tighter stitch, as opposed to having to use two strands. I prefer this method, as opposed to using two strands.

Ciao, Sara

I just completed a hat that used 2-strands, and would have found this method to be a little simpler.

Charting patterns using spreadsheets

One of the things that I remember growing up with my knit-crazy mother was when she would design her own patterns. She would get out this special paper (later I found out this was just a large piece of graph paper) and start plotting a pattern. She would then calculate her knitting pattern from that chart. Last week as I was trying to figure out how many rows I should knit on my KK Loom for a striped hat, I did the same thing, only I moved the process to a more 21st century solution – the spreadsheet. Attached is the spreadsheet that I created that can be used as a template for the round knitting looms (each tab references one of the round looms).

Attachment: kk_round_grids.xls