[Nfb-krafters-korner] loom knitting tip!

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

If you knit off the last stitch that you e-wrapped, it will lock in your e-wrapps and your tention is even and you can stop at any time.  On my knitting in the round I can not tell where my anker peg was.  

Terry P.

  

-----Original Message-----
From: Cathy [mailto:flowersandherbs at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 12:05 AM
To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] loom knitting tip!

Hi all,

 

Quite awhile back during a loom knit class the question came up as to whether it was best to eWrap all pegs then knit them off, or eWrap and knit off each peg individually. At the time, it was suggested that ewrapping all pegs was easiest, so that is what I have been doing.

 

However, I have begun reading a book called "loom knitting primer," by Phelps. She suggests that ewrapping and knitting each peg off individually has a number of advantages. First, it prevents the laddering effect between the first and last peg in knitting in the round. (Joyce had been trying to figure out how to resolve this problem I remember.) next ewrapping individually helps lessen the spiraling effect around the item. the other advantages are that the stitches are less likely to get too tight or inadvertently come off the loom.

 

This is a wonderful book, I have only read 20 pages and can't put it down and am already learning things I didn't yet know.

It is in three different formats on bookshare and although there are pictures, the text is all that is needed.

Cathy

 

 

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