[Nfb-krafters-korner] Help please

[Zimmer, Cindy]

Joyce,

Not sure if you got help or not yet for the Knifty Knitter "thing" *laugh.   Yes, you can rip out a row, but you have to just work backwards and undo each stitch taking the loop from the inside of the loom back over the peg and then that pulls the working yarn free.  You have to do this peg by peg and it is a pain.

I have worked with many students learning the loom and making hats.  It is easy to miss a stitch/drop a stitch which makes a hole!  My hunch is that you are not checking your work often.  If you notice a "HOLE" then try to fix it immediately.  You can go back and fix it or when learning, I teach to bring the loop up and put it on a peg that is close to where you found the open loop and knit it off.  This "stops" the hole from getting any bigger.  For a while, after you knit each row, stop and check to see if  you have any holes or loose loops hanging around.

Hope that helps!
Cindy Z.



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Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:56 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Help please

Ok I really need some help here with this knifty knitter thing.  I  tried 
making a hat on a larger flexi loom.  It went along OK, but help,  help, 
help.  In the area of the beginning of the round I obviously am not  doing 
something correctly.  I keep dropping stitches or something.   Like maybe I am 
pulling them off in the wrong direction or losing the  twist.  Of course the 
oldest Princess wanted to know if I finished the hat  yet.  I don't really 
know how to wrip it back a row.  I am hanging my  head in shame as I just took 
yarn and kinda stitched up the holes.  A  couple of spots you could really 
feel what I did.  She came over and I gave  it to her and she said it was 
soft and it fit her perfect.  I did take a  good guess and it was not too big 
or too small.
 
I wanted to do all of them a hat, but I started the next one on my round  
knitting needles and throwing in cables.  So they will have the white hat  
with the silver or what Henry got me, but I was hoping they would be kinda the 
 same in different sizes.  With ribbing and cables that goes out the  
window.  
 
I needed something I knew I could do, but I have not done cables since I  
went blind, so a challenge.
 
Henry, how do you do this?  I used the 31 peg hat loom.  I was  going to 
use the 36 peg, but that seemed so big.
 
Help, Help, Help from you knifty knitters!!!
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com 
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