Provo Craft Instructions for a Long Loom Kniffy Knitter
Crafters who want to knit rectangles and squares, but haven't mastered knitting needles, have an alternative method available--the Provo Craft Knifty Knitter long loom. This heavy-duty plastic loom is an oblong piece with a series of pegs set around its rim. The crafter wraps yarn around the pegs, creating loops before using a simple hook tool to manipulate the yarn, to create a knitted piece. Consider using the Knifty Knitter in place of needles to create scarves, afghans or baby blankets.
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Instructions
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Buy bulky yarn, knitting worsted, fun fur or baby yarn to use with the Knifty Knitter. Use two strands of the fine baby yarn for a project, or one single strand for the heavier yarns.
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Look at the series of pegs that are placed down the length of the long loom. Notice that there is a peg on the U-shape curved end of the loom. These two pegs are used in patterns that specifically call for their use.
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Secure the end of the yarn by wrapping it around the single peg on the side of the end of the Knifty Knitter loom.
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Bring the yarn up to the first peg. Wrap the yarn around the outside of starting peg and over to the next peg, around the back, and to the front in a figure-eight design. Continue wrapping yarn around the pegs from side-to-side in a figure-eight until arriving at peg number 24. Make another figure-eight and pull one more straight piece directly out to the side of the number 23 peg on the loom.
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Wrap yarn in the figure-eight pattern all the way back to the starting peg. Pull the wrapping yarn straight out to the side. Notice that there are two sets of figure-eight rows on the loom.
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Pick up the small hooked hand tool. Hold the yarn piece out to the side. Lift the bottom loop from the starting peg up over the top loop, and up, over, and off of the peg. This technique is creating a stitch. Continue down the length of the Knifty Knitter loop, lifting the bottom loops over and off of the pegs.
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Wrap the pegs once more with the series of figure 8s. Use the hook to lift the bottom loops from the knitter to create the next row of stitches. Continue wrapping and lifting loops off of the Knifty Knitter until the knitted piece is at the length needed for the project piece.
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Cut a 5- to -6 inch tail of yarn from the wrapping yarn near the skein. Go to the opposite end of the loom from the yarn tail. Use the G crochet hook to pull the loop of yarn on the odd-numbered peg off of the loom and on to the crochet hook. Pull the loop of yarn from the even-numbered peg directly across from the odd one on to the crochet hook. Now there are two loops on the crochet hook.
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Pull the second yarn loop through the first loop with the crochet hook. Pull the next odd-numbered loop and even-numbered loop from the Knifty Knitter with the crochet hook. Pull each loop through the other one until all of the loops are removed from the loom. Pull the tail of the yarn through the last loop on the crochet hook.
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Use the crochet hook to weave the tail piece of yarn through the stitches on the square or rectangular knitted piece. Repeat with the end piece of yarn that was originally used to hook the yarn to the Knifty Knitter. The knitted piece is finished.
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