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

Tue Dec 11 20:42:17 UTC 2012

Hi Barb;
I e-wrap counter clockwise and knit off, clock wize and have never had any problems with slack in my work.  I have had compliments on how even my stitches are.  I can stop and start anywhere, that is why I like to knit off backwards.  This way you knit off your last stitch and you can put down your work and pick it up and continue to knit off the row.  The only time I knit one stitch at a time is when I am doing a fancy stitch like a perl or U wrap.  I find it extreamly slow.  I can put down my tool and wrap and pick up my tool to knit off.  
I am surprised to hear of this gap problem.  Thankfully, I have not had to deal with it.  

Terry P.

-----Original Message-----
From: Barb Roland [mailto:barbwire59 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 1:40 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] another looming question please help me

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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