Things You'll Need:
- Knitting loom
- Loom hook
- Crochet hook
- Yarn of choice
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Step 1
anchor pegThe first thing you need to do is get your yarn, extend it a god length so you have room to work with. Then you take about 3 in and wrap around the anchor peg. This is when you start E-wrapping.
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Step 2
E-wrapE-wrap is what it is called because it looks like an “E”. You wrap the pegs from behind them (or from the inside of the loom). If you are creating a hat then you just continue going around the loom counter clockwise until desired length. If a scarf or other type of flat piece: then you start at peg 1 which is the peg just to the right of the anchor peg, and stop at the last peg just to the left of the anchor peg and then continue on clockwise. Push the first wrap on each peg to the bottom of the peg and then continue on the second round. It might feel backwards and a bit difficult to manage the yarn, but with consistency you will pick it up. Now that you have wrapped around the loom twice (you should have two loops per peg). Now take the loom hook and take the bottom loop and hook it over the top loop. You have officially got the first row done. Continue on. After you have wrapped a 2 or 3 rows, undo the anchor peg yarn and put it through to the center of the loom so it doesn’t cause a binding in your project.
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Step 3
You can take the single wrap that you just did and make a thicker piece by doing a double wrap. This means you wrap once, push those wraps to bottom, wrap again and push those to the bottom, do this twice more leaving the second two wraps at top and hook the first two loops over the second two. If you want to create an edge, do a few rows until you have about 2 in. Take the original row and bring those loops back up and put back onto the pegs of the loom. Continue knitting and you have just created the edge. If you choose to add another color, you can cheat and just tie another color yarn tightly to the original color and snip off original color after the knot you made and continue on. You can also just knit two together and the snip off the original yarn after the round where you added the second yarn. You can create stripes with this and it adds a bit of flare to any project. You can also use the rectangle loom for this also. Use one side of it like a round loom or you can do a simple stitch called the ribbed knit. Wrap yarn from inside as with the round loom go to peg across from the first and wrap from inside, then go to one next to the second one and then go across and continue on until you have reached the other end and start back again. Work until you have desired length.
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Step 4
Binding off
Now that you have desired length, you need to bind off. Take yarn of another color and cut to a length that will be long enough to hook project off of the loom and then crotchet off. When I have to bind off I like to weave up through the first peg, down through the second, repeat until the last peg, then remove the contrasting yarn.
Comments
4dogday said
on 4/19/2009 Great instructions for knitting looms, I have one but the instructions that came with it are not very clear.
sonni57 said
on 4/16/2009 Good directions on how to knit with knitting looms.
writedesign said
on 3/13/2009 I used to knit when I was younger. This looks like fun. 5*rec
FrazzledNanny said
on 3/12/2009 Thanks for the article on knitting with a loom. I love to knit and crochet but I've never tried using a loom. I have always wanted to try the loom and now I feel I can. Great pictures and easy to follow steps. 5*