[Nfb-krafters-korner] Help please

Fri Dec 30 12:57:49 UTC 2011

Cathy;
Your description is fine, accept that you wrap clock wize around each peg and counter clock wize around the loom.
You are going from peg 1 to 24 or ? So that is the oppositeof going from from 1-12 on a clock.  The loom goes right to left and a clock goes left to right.  Wrapping a peg, you go from right to left, like the hands on a clock.  This is done by going from the back to the far right around the frunt around the back and crossing your original yarn, then advancing to the next peg.
Hope this all makes sence.  There was a big discreption in the original literature, cindy sent out on this matter.

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy [mailto:flowersandherbs at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:23 PM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help please

Joyce,

On a round loom, peg one is normally the peg to the right of the anchor peg.
To totally begin at the beginning to make a hat: With the yarn coming from the anchor peg bring the working yarn inside the circle and around the inside of peg one and bring it between pegs one and two continuing to wrap it around until it goes between peg one and the anchor peg. This is one eWrap. Continue by bringing your working yarn from where it is on the inside past peg one and peg two, (the peg to the right of peg one) and bring  it outside going between pegs two and three around the outside of peg two and back inside between pegs one and two. This is the second eWrap. Going around the loom, peg 36 would be the last peg on the loom for the adult hat and it is located just to the left of the anchor peg and of course also to the left of peg one. when you eWrap you are wrapping the yarn counterclockwise, while moving around the loom clockwise. Once you have ewrapped twice you are ready to knit. There should be two loops on every peg. Set aside the working yarn and pull the bottom loop of peg one over the top loop. This is your first stitch. Do this with every peg. Now there should be only one loop on each peg.  I think this next part is where you may be having problems perhaps.
So, next, take the working yarn and pulling it inside behind peg one, take it between pegs one and two pulling it  around the outside of peg one and back around between peg one and the anchor peg. this is where you have a choice to make. You can now simply eWrap peg two by moving the working yarn past the inside of peg two, around it between pegs two and three and back between pegs one and two, thus making another eWrap, and continuing to eWrap around all pegs. Instead however, after you have finished ewrapping peg one, (which now has two loops on it, you can, set down your working yarn for a moment, and immediately pick up the bottom loop on peg one and lift it over the top loop, leaving only one loop on the peg. (in this way, you are ewrapping and knitting off each peg separately instead of ewrapping all pegs, then knitting all pegs. In my experience, ewrapping and then knitting each peg individually keeps my knitting at a better tension, loops not too loose or tight and no chance of ewrapped but not yet knitted loops from popping off. 
Either way you do it, you always eWrap counter clockwise and knit clockwise.
After you have knitted a few rows, you can take the yarn loop off of the anchor peg and let it hang down so that your work is not bunched up.
forgetting to eWrap a peg or inadvertently eWrapping it in the wrong direction can cause problems by creating holes or loops unraveling. 

Hope I have not over explained, or under explained. I did not mean to write a beginners book, but I just wasn't certain what you did and did not understand.

Cathy

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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help please

Yes, I am using an E wrap.  It is crossing over toward the middle of  the loom and has the single wrap on the outside.  

I am confused on which number the pegs are, so can someone tell me to begin  to the left or the right of the anchor peg that you first wrap end of yarn  around.  Then do you pull off going in a right or left direction???

Kathy, I am going to give the one wrap at a time a try, but seems like that  is a lot of hand motion.  I will practice.  Just wanted something  simple and fast to work on and thought this might be a nice change.

Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

In a message dated 12/28/2011 7:05:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, nevafairchild at verizon.net writes:

Are you  using an e wrap knit stitch?  

Neva Fairchild
972 416-7039  

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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner]  Help please

Ok I really need some help here with this knifty knitter  thing.  I  tried making a hat on a larger flexi loom.  It  went along OK, but help,  help, help.  In the area of the  beginning of the round I obviously am not  doing 
something  correctly.  I keep dropping stitches or something.   Like maybe  
I
am 
pulling them off in the wrong direction or losing the   twist.  Of course 
the
oldest Princess wanted to know if I finished the  hat  yet.  I don't really know how to wrip it back a row.  I  am hanging my  head in shame as I just took yarn and kinda stitched up  the holes.  A  couple of spots you could really feel what I  did.  She came over and I gave  it to her and she said it was  soft and it fit her perfect.  I did take a  good guess and it was  not too big or too small.

I wanted to do all of them a hat, but I  started the next one on my round knitting needles and throwing in  cables.  So they will have the white hat with the silver or what Henry  got me, but I was hoping they would be kinda the  same in different  sizes.  With ribbing and cables that goes out the
window.   

I needed something I knew I could do, but I have not done cables since  I went blind, so a challenge.

Henry, how do you do this?  I  used the 31 peg hat loom.  I was  going to use the 36 peg, but  that seemed so big.

Help, Help, Help from you knifty  knitters!!!

Joyce  Kane
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