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

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Barb,
 
Yes Listening to what you just wrote is what I am doing.  I really did  not 
know you should not do this.  I just will have to teach myself and keep  
thinking to change it.  
 
I am using a Cindy Wood's loom and it is hard for me to not have a  
beginning and end spot.  Got to teach this old dog a new trick with  this...
 
I will say the work I have been practicing on the Kiss Loom I did not come  
up with this happening, but I have not done anything  completely yet on the 
 kiss loom just practicing this U stitch and seems to be working out well, 
so  far.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 12/10/2012 1:49:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
barbwire59 at gmail.com writes:

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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