[Nfb-krafters-korner] loom knitting tip!

Tue Apr 10 21:17:09 UTC 2012

What I meant by marking the beginning with tape was to mark the beginning  
so you could feel where the beginning was.  I did not mean it for any other  
purpose.  You don't have to wrap the yarn around anything when  beginning.  
Make it long enough and just let it dangle or twist the tail of  the yarn 
around the loom between the first and last peg, then you will be able  to 
feel the beginning too.

Terry, this is a place to share ideas or different ways of doing  things.  
So just because you would not use a suggested way doesn't mean no  one else 
should consider it.  We are sharing different ways and  ideas.  I took your 
statement literally when you said you didn't have an  anchor peg.

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

In a message dated 4/10/2012 10:28:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Terry.Powers at nih.gov writes:

I did  not mean I did not have a anker peg.  I ment there was no difference 
in  the feal of the stitches at the anker peg, where I started and stopped. 
  To my understanding, you were saying there is a difference in the feal of 
the  stitches, where the anker peg is, or where you start and stop.

If I  did not have an anker peg, I surely would not use tape.  I would tie 
a  string of a different texture from the yarn I am working with to tell the 
 braking point be tween pegs 1 and x.  Tie it around the loom base not the  
peg.
Terry P

-----Original Message-----
From: Blindhands at aol.com  [mailto:Blindhands at aol.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2012 5:21 PM
To:  nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] loom  knitting tip!

If you don't have an anchor  peg place a piece of  masking tape or duck 
tape on your loom to mark the  beginning.

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

In a message dated 4/9/2012 7:02:08 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Terry.Powers at nih.gov writes:

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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