How to Knit on a Spool Loom

Using a spool loom, yarn and a crochet hook, you can make simple knitted projects.

A spool loom is made of a spool or other hollow cylinder with a number of pegs around the top edge. You can use a spool loom to perform a simplified form of knitting that results in a thick cord of woven yarn that can be as long as you want it to be. A wooden spool with a hole down its core and four small nails hammered into one end at even intervals around the circumference forms a functional homemade spool loom.

Things You'll Need

• Yarn
• Spool loom
• Crochet hook
• Scissors

Instructions

1. Thread one end of the yarn through the spool loom from top to bottom, leaving a "tail" about 2 feet long hanging from the bottom of the spool.

2. Wind the yarn emerging from the center of the top of the spool one turn around the peg closest to you. Turn the spool and wind the yarn around the next peg. Repeat until you have wound the yarn once around each of the pegs.

3. Tighten the loops by pulling lightly on the tail of yarn. Continue winding the yarn as before, but each time you wind a second loop onto a peg, use the crochet hook to pull the first (lower) loop over the second loop and off of the peg. This forms a knot. Keep rotating the spool and forming a knot at each peg, tightening the yarn slightly between knots.

4. When the cord is as long as you want it to be, cut or break the yarn, leaving about 1 foot of excess. Thread the excess yarn through the loops that remain on the pegs, then lift the final loops off the pegs with the crochet hook and pull the excess thread gently to tighten the end of the cord. Trim the excess yarn and the tail to the desired lengths.