[Nfb-krafters-korner] another looming question please help me

[Barb Roland]

Joyce, this is what they call the "ladder effect", this happens when you 
wrap the whole loom before knitting off and always stopping and starting in 
the same place. It is normal for that first stitch to be tight and the rest 
looser, as you are knitting off, it is creating a bit of slack in your work 
and by the time you reach the end of that row, all the slack ends up there.
A couple of ways to combat this is to vary your starting and stopping point 
so that excess slack does not end up in the same spot every time, for 
instance, if you stop on peg 20 for round 1, on round 2 you might stop at 
peg 19, then row 3 stop on peg 2 and so forth, this will distribute that 
slack in different areas.

Another way, is to work each peg individually, do your cast on row, then 
wrap and ko peg 1, wrap and ko peg 2, etc. I find this works better for me 
in controlling my tension. Yes it may be a bit slower, but in the end it 
works out better for me.

Hope this helps,
Barb
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From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 10:37 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] another looming question please help me


> OK I am still having a bit of a challenge with the round loom and I don't
> know what to do or what I am doing wrong.
>
> I E wrap twice and begin left of the anchor pulling off stitches.  I  go 
> in
> a right or left direction and it seems to do the same thing.  The  first
> stich that I pull up from the bottom over the top is tight.  I need  to 
> pull
> it and work it up and off.  Now as I work going [it does not matter  which
> direction] the stitches I am pulling up from the bottom becomes a bit 
> looser
> and easier to pull up and off.[I don't have to fight it]   Now  I finish
> stitching off and go back and e wrap the entire loom again.  I  begin to 
> the
> left of the anchor and move counter clockwise and the first stitch  is 
> really
> tight and then they loosen.
>
> The problem that this is creating that I am really unhappy with the 
> outcome
> is that where the first stitch is created and since I am repeating what I
> am  doing I get this loose gappy stitch located at this one area that runs
> up the  total length of my work.  The stitches every place else in my work
> feel  evenly spaced and snug together, but I do not like this and how do I
> stop doing  it???
>
> Help!!!
>
> Joyce  Kane
> _www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
> Blindhands at AOL.com
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