Looming Lady Blog
I did some work on the loom this month, celebrating April and Spring WINDSPINNER Yes! I made a short one ON A LOOM and hope to try for a longer one yet. This is how I did it. What you need: baby hat loom, mine was 31 pegs. Loom hook. Three colors of yarn, small amounts of each. Yarn needle. Double e-wrap all pegs. Turn, knit off. Flat knit back to peg 1. Attach new color. E-wrap all pegs. Turn. Knit off. Flat knit back to peg 1. e-wrap all pegs, turn. Knit off. Flat knit back to peg 1. Change color. e-wrap all pegs. Turn. Knit off. Cut long tail, twice the length of the loom. Pull the tail through each stitch, picking each stitch off. Draw stitches closed, pulling the spinner into circles as you pull. Weave in all threads. Attach your anchor at the bottom. I used a stemmed flower! Pull a thread through the top loops and create a loop for your spinner. Enjoy! Ah, spring. Everything seems to go crazy, including me. The sun is shining, it’s time to plant seeds and see to clearing the yard. The animals are nesting and starting families, birds included. One can get out and about, working carefully with the cost of gas these days. Plants and nature, gardening, travel, and lots of yarn work are going on in my spring this year. Fall is my favorite time of year, but spring runs a close second. This month, I started sorting through my stashes. After a long, cold, and dreary winter I have bags of projects, finished and unfinished. I have full skeins of yarn that I bought, often impulsively. And there are tons of partial balls of yarn. I unbagged, took pictures, and resorted the projects. If I remembered my plans for them, I started to effectuate those tasks. If I didn’t, I re-bagged them with hopes of finding homes for them. Some will be gifts; some will go to charities. Some, like my little knitted kitty, will be used by me. Check him out, on my plantstand! Then I gathered all the small balls of yarn and started working to reduce them. Tassels, bookmarkers, wind spinners, and balls. I tried some in crochet and some in loom knit. I had a blast and got a very sore hand after a week. Flowers on stems What you need - a 12 or 16 peg loom. I used 16 pegs because that was available. Loom hook. Small amount of yarn. Start with the stems row 1: double e-wrap first 1 pegs. Turn. knit off, row 2: wrap peg 10, pull bottom loop over top onto peg 11. wrap peg 10 again, pull bottom loop onto peg 12. wrap peg 10 again, knit. Move stitch on peg 12 - 13, stitch on peg 11 to peg 12, stitch on peg 10 to peg 11. leave peg 10 empty. wrap peg 9, bring stitch to peg 10. wrap peg 8, bring stitch to peg 9. Wrap peg 7, bring stitch to peg 8 wrap peg 6, bring bottom loop to peg 7. wrap peg 6, knit Knit stitches on pegs 5-1. turn. row 3: Knit all stitches off until stitch 13. put stitch 13 onto peg 16. attach yarn for flower head or continue to use same color. HEAD -complete rounds. e-wrap all pegs. knit off in round, continue to knit rounds 2-3. Weave in all threads. One way of using this applique is by sewing it onto a bag, or the cover of a soft book. Check out below! I will try to make a visual example for this over the next month. In the meantime, enjoy!
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AuthorI am an office worker by day but a writer and crafter in my free time. My books can be found on Amazon in print or on Kindle. Archives
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