How to Do a Circular Knit on the Long Loom

Long looms are capable of producing knit fabric in which both sides look like this.

Knitting looms come in many shapes and sizes, from small, four pin French knitting spools to long, 70+-pin knitting boards. These long looms can also be used to knit flat panels, just like round looms, but you can also knit large circular projects on a long loom.

Things You'll Need

• Yarn
• Crochet needle
• Scissors
• Yarn needle

Instructions

1. Cast on your long loom using your favorite cast on, such as the chain cast on. Make a slip knot and slide it onto the pin of your loom above the anchor pin -- the pin that sticks out of the side of your loom. The anchor pin is located on the left short side of your loom and there is one knitting pin on that side as well. Slide your crochet hook into the loop of your slip knot as it sits on the pin and wrap the yarn connected to your skein -- the working yarn -- around it. Pull it through the loop and slide the new loop onto the peg next to it, working in a clockwise fashion. Continue around the loom until you have come back to your start. Make another loop and place it on your first peg, which now has two loops on it.

2. Knit your first row by wrapping your yarn around the outside of the loom, lying it against the pins above the loops that are already on them. Take your loom tool and on the first peg, the one with the slip knot, lift the bottom loop up and over the top of the peg -- and the yarn -- and drop it to the inside of the loom. When you come around to your first stitch -- the peg with two loops on it -- you will pull both loops up and over the new wrap of yarn. Wrap your loom again and knit the pegs off. Repeat until your knitted tube is as long as you need it to be.

3. Bind off your knitting by lifting the loop on the first peg off and sliding it onto the next peg in sequence. Pass the bottom loom off the peg and move the remaining loop over to the next peg in sequence. Continue around until you have one loop left. Cut your yarn, leaving a 4- to 6-inch tail of yarn and pull the yarn through the loop, pulling it tight to knot your yarn.

References

• Provocraft: Knifty Knitter Long Loom Series
• Knitty: How to Knit Needle Free: Isela G. Phelps: 2007