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

[Barb Roland]

Speaking of that u stitch on the kiss loom, how is it that you can u stitch 
all the way around before knitting off?
The u stitch does not go all the way around the pegs, so has nothing to hold 
it in place until you knit off.
Barb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] another looming question please help me


> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
> To:  <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> 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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