[Nfb-krafters-korner] another looming question please help me to Terry & all

Wed Dec 12 17:11:37 UTC 2012

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questions about crafting and receive help to solving the problems and troubles 
 they might be having.  

If you are a person that never had such a problem[ then maybe you are doing 
 it correctly and I am not].  That is why I sent a detailed message on how 
I  am doing it and what is happening.  

I am willing to try to correct or change or learn from my mistakes, but I  
needed guidance.  I want to thank those who took the time to explain and  
give me ways to try out, as you are the experienced loomers out there.  I  am 
happy if you never had to face this problem, too.  I hate to give up and  
that is why I was seeking advise.

I

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

In a message dated 12/11/2012 3:44:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
Terry.Powers at nih.gov writes:

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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