[Nfb-krafters-korner] My first big kk challenge

Cathy flowersandherbs at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 17:17:14 UTC 2011 

Hi Terry,

I do not have the email but the closing you are talking about is called the
zigzag removal method. It is a flat rather than gathered closure. We will be
using it on the slipper pattern. Anyhow, here is how to do it.


Remove with the Flat Zig Zag removal method: 
Cut yarn leaving a 24 inch tail, thread it through the darning needle. 
With the needle coming from the last peg worked, (assume it is peg 1) 
Step 1: With needle, pass it through the loop 
on peg 1 take the stitch off the peg. 
Step 2: Go to the peg to the left of peg 1, 
pass the needle through the loop and remove 
it off the peg 
Step 3: Go to the right of peg 1 and take the 
loop off the peg. 
Repeat Steps 1-3, alternating from right to left 
in a zig zag motion. 
Final step: when all the loops have been 
removed and are threaded on the yarn, pull 
on the yarn gently to tighten the stitches. 
Pass the needle towards the inside of the 
loom and weave in your yarn tail end. 


The tricky part of this is that you must be careful that when taking the
loops off the pegs that you do not wrap the yarn around the peg before
taking the loop off. you want your yarn to be near the empty peg when you
pass it around to the next peg to take off. if you do it this way, the loops
will pull together smoothly. Otherwise, you will have a tangled mess. Oh,
but did I learn this the hard way!

Cathy


-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Powers, Terry
(NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 11:19 AM
To: 'Barb Roland'; 'List for blind crafters andartists'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] My first big kk challenge

Who explained how to close a tube and make it flat, not gathered.  I need to
find the e-mail.

Terry P.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Barb Roland [mailto:barbwire59 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 11:12 AM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] My first big kk challenge

Oh, Oh, I'd be interested in this also.
Barb R.
Z6

'Just living is not enough,' said the butterfly, 'one must have sunshine,
freedom and a little flower.' ~ Hans Christian Anderson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] My first big kk challenge


> Can we do the flower class again.  I was not able to get the loom in 
> time for the class, when it was held, before.
>
> Terry P.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blindhands at aol.com [mailto:Blindhands at aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 10:50 AM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] My first big kk challenge
>
> Wait, wait, wait.  This sounds like a class!!!!
>
> I would like to see more classes[all the time] and I would like to 
> have those who would like to try teaching a class to get in touch with me.
>
> I am looking into my crystal ball for some Knifty Knitter/loom classes 
> to teach some new stitches.  Example: the rib stitch[ knits and purls] 
> a cable stitch[guess what more knits and purls] or those double stitches.
> More techniques of casting on, binding off.  I believe everyone gets 
> more out of  a class where the group are meeting together and have 
> different words of descriptions to share with each other.
>
> I will work with anyone to help them plan, practice or use me as a 
> guinea pig to test out.
>
> My door, email and phone number is available to everyone.
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
> Blindhands at AOL.com
>
>
> In a message dated 12/30/2011 10:23:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, 
> flowersandherbs at gmail.com writes:
>
> Hi  Barb,
>
> I'd be interested to hear how it goes for you making that scarf.  is 
> the figure eight method the same thing as double knit, do you know? I  
> had tried a double knit scarf a month or so ago and found it rather  
> confusing at the time, so went back to the round loom. Perhaps now 
> though,  I would be able to master it.  what brand of yarn are you using?
4-ply  I assume?
>
> Cathy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:  nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org]  On Behalf Of Barb 
> Roland
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 10:06 AM
> To:  List for blind crafters and artists
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] My  first big kk chalange
>
> That's great Terry, do be sure and let us know  how it comes out. I 
> would be curious to find out if the glasses would  "catch" on the yarn or
not.
> I am currently working on a figure 8 wrap scarf  on the small long 
> loom, new loom, new technique.
> I have a skein of the  thick and quick, but have not decided what to 
> make with it yet.
> Barb  R.
> Z6
>
> 'Just living is not enough,' said the butterfly, 'one must  have 
> sunshine, freedom and a little flower.' ~ Hans Christian  Anderson
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Powers, Terry  (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]" <Terry.Powers at nih.gov>
> To: "'List for blind  crafters and artists'"
> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday,  December 30, 2011 8:57 AM
> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] My first big kk  chalange
>
>
>>
>> Henry taught me how to make the eyelets on  the kk loom, last night 
>> and I am making my first large eye glass case  for the husband of a 
>> friend of mine.  This will mean making an  eye chord and also trying 
>> the bind off where you actually sew the  item closed.
>> He uses large eye glasses and she asked me to knit him an  eye glass 
>> case.
>> It is black and will have a red eye chord.  Let  you all know how it
> comes
>> out.  I have already done maybe about  2/3 of it.  I love this thick 
>> and quick for the loom!
>>  Henry is a great, one on one, teacher!
>> Terry P.
>>
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