Kitchener Loom Experiment Results

Well, I’m all recovered from the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.  It was a wonderful weekend and many spindles found new homes!  Now I can finally post the results of my Kitchener experiments.  First, I realized that I forgot to link both Kristen’s video and the sock machine video that I mentioned in my last post.  Try them both [...]

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Thoughts on the Kitchner Stitch

I’ve been thinking that I want a different way to do the kitchner stitch. It’s probably most efficient to do it on knitting needles, but I always seem to mess that up (plus I seem to have an aversion to doing any knitting related tasks with needles). When I started making socks, I couldn’t find [...]

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I have a new helper!

I working on a sideways knit baja style sweatshirt for my husband on a small gauge Markman Farm loom.  I’m almost done the first 1/4 body panel and now I have a new helper.  I’m sure things will go much faster now. lol! Anyway, it’s a cotton wool/blend in assorted colors.  Since I’m knitting sideways, [...]

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Lace OFF the Loom

I just noticed that I never posted pictures of my finished Saskia.  I was very happy to see just what can be done on a knitting loom.  This one was knit with a three ply on my small gauge Markman Farm loom from wool that I dyed and spindle spun by my little own self! In [...]

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Ruana

Here’s my Ruana all finished and modeled by it’s recipient, my lovely sil, Kathy.  The pattern is from Isela Phelps Loom Knitters Primer and the yarn is Thirteen Mile Yarn-bulky in Latte.  I had to cast on extra to make up for differences in yarn and loom gauge, but I think it turned out nicely. [...]

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The Lace is On (the loom)!

Over on Ravelry, the Beginner’s Lace knitting group has just started to work on Saskia (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/saskia).  I have my homespun yarn to use up, so, what the heck!  I though I’d give it a try on the loom.  There are just single and double decreases and YO’s to deal with.  I think it’s a pretty managable [...]

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Missteps Lead to New Designs?

When I started my sweater, I knew that I wanted to add border stitches to lessen rolling.  So I knit 10 rows of moss stitch along the bottom of the body panel and 3 rows of moss stitch on the sleeve edge.  The top of the sleeve, which forms the neckline, got 5 rows of single ribbing.  Well, the edges [...]

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Finally finished!

So I started a sweater for myself LAST summer.  I had found five matching skeins of worsted weight wool in a thrift shop grab bag.  Okay, it was a fairly hideous variated from Red Heart, so I wouldn’t feel too bad if the project didn’t turn out, but at least it was 100% wool.  I [...]

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Loomy Fun with Bethany

There’s lots of loomy fun going on at Gettin’ It Pegged, all in celebration of Bethany’s blogaversary.  I’d write more, but I’m off on a scavenger hunt there myself.  Come join the fun: http://gettinitpegged.com/

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What’s the Flap About, part 3 (my sock has no top!)

So, at this point we have a heel flap and a gusset and a little problem: The sock has no top.   It’s time to put those stitches from the scrap yarn back onto their now empty pegs. Then there is just closing up the gap along the top of the gusset.  To do that I knit  just [...]

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