How to Make a Dish Cloth on a Round Loom
Knitting items on round looms has become a very popular hobby. Many different techniques have been developed that can be used to create many different shapes and looks with these round looms. Once you learn the technique, you can create homemade dish cloths to keep and give away.
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Things You'll Need
- Medium size knitting loom
- 1 skein worsted weight cotton yarn
- Knitting hook
- Yarn needle
- Scissors
Instructions
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Cast on 17 stitches.
Tie a slip knot around the side anchor peg. Pull the yarn to the center of the loom and wrap it around the first peg ending up with the yarn in the center of the loom again. Continue wrapping in this fashion until you come to the first peg again. Do not wrap the yarn overly tight.
Wrap the yarn around each peg a second time in the same fashion so that each peg now will have two loops of yarn.
Position the yarn so that it is ready to begin to wrap working from right to left.
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Knit once in each stitch working from right to left. To knit stitch, hold the yarn above the yarn loop on the next peg. Use the knitting hook to lift the bottom loop of yarn over and off of the peg. It should slip off of the peg behind it to create the knitted stitch.
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Purl once in each stitch, working from left to right. Instead of holding the yarn above the yarn loop on the next peg, hold the yarn below the yarn loop. Use the knitting hook to grab under the top loop from above. Grab the bottom yarn loop and pull it though.
Finish the purl stitch by lifting the top loop and the new loop completely off the peg. Push the top loop down on the peg and place the new loop back onto the peg to create the purl stitch.
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Knit once in each stitch except the last three stitches, working from right to left. When you reach the last three stitches, stop and lift off the stitch from peg 15. Wrap the yarn around this peg once and replace the original stitch on the peg.
Turn back the way you came, this time purling once in each stitch, working back to the right to the beginning of the row.
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Knit once in each stitch except the last four stitches, working from right to left. When you reach the last four stitches, stop and and lift off the stitch from peg 14. Wrap the yarn around this peg once and replace the original stitch on the peg.
Turn back the way you came, this time purling once in each stitch, working back to the right to the beginning of the row.
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Continue knitting each row in this fashion, knitting one less stitch each time. Stop and lift off the stitch from the last peg. Wrap the yarn around this peg once and replace the original stitch back on the peg.
Turn and purl once in each stitch back to the right to the beginning of the row. Stop when the row contains three stitches.
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Knit a finishing row where you knit a row and pick up each wrap as you knit. As you pick up the wrapped loops, combine them with the next stitch to treat them as one stitch to be knit together. Turn and purl once in each stitch back from peg 17 to peg 1.
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Lift off the bottom loop from each peg to have one loop remaining on each peg. Do a knit stitch (as in Step 2) and then pull a slightly larger loop through the loop on the peg. Hold this loop with your thumb and index finger. While holding this loop, lift the remaining loop off the peg and place the loop you are holding onto the next peg along the line. Tighten the yarn very slightly. Use the yarn hook to lift the bottom loop over the top loop of this second peg, leaving one loop on the peg. Do another knit stitch on this peg as you did on the first peg and continue in the same fashion holding this next loop with your thumb and index finger. Continue to cast off each peg and remove the wedge from the loom.
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Repeat steps 1 through 8 to knit five more wedges so that you have a total of six wedges.
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Fit the six wedges together with the points to the center to create a circle shape. Thread a length of yarn onto the yarn needle and stitch the wedges together to finish the round dishcloth.
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Tips & Warnings
Be very careful to keep the knitting hook out of children's reach.
