Tutorials

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Rounds & Rakes Tutorials

• Loom Knitting Basics (22 page tutorial to get you started on looming)*
• Cast Ons Tutorial-6 cast ons demonstrated with step-by-step pictures*
• Learn to Loom Knit Cables*
• Loom Knitting Stitch Guide Part I*
• Joining Yarns*
• Decreasing with k2tog and ssk*
• A Little Petal Demonstrating k2tog and ssk*
• Decreasing with k2tog and ssk--blog post with pictures
• Creating the Mariposita Stitch on a loom
• Creating Bobbles on a Knitting Loom
• Creating Cables on a Knitting Loom
• Converting Needle Knit Patterns to Loom Knit*
• I-cords on a Loom*
• Felting

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Comments

[debra satterlee]

Could you please tell me how to get the magic scarf pattern?

[Isela]

Debra,
I do not have a magic scarf pattern. I am sorry.

Isela

[Ineke van den Broek]

dear Mrs. Phelps, will you ever do a tutorial on how to knit lace on a knitting loom. I have your sock knitting book and would like to make the little green socks with the lacy edge but just can't do it. It calls for a yo and then an ssk but then you would have two loops on the stitch before the ssk because it already has the loop from the previous row.

greets from Ineke from The Netherlands

[fefe]

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[Carol]

Thank you for all the information. I am new to this and am having trouble knitting on a rake loom. I want to make a one sided scarf and am having trouble with understanding turns and what you do at the end of the loom. My loom has extra pegs on the ends. It is a kk
May I add that I am left-handed so that confuses me even more. Carol

[Rossana]

Dear Isela,
first of all sorry for my english,i'm Rossana an italian girl,who fallen in love with loom knitting!
I've watched al your faboulus tutorial(Thank you so much)and I'd like to ask you a little question: There is a big difference between "e-Wrap" and "chain cast on" at the end of the work?I mean when i watch my work complete?
Thank you for pay me attention
With love Rossana

[Jodi Rowland]

Hello Isela,
I just viewed you video on increases on a loom now I am looking for one on decreases. I read your instructions, but am a little dense. Need to see it in action for a few stitchs to get the hang of it. Would you be willing to post a video showing how to do decreases? It would help me greatly to see it being done. Thank you for all you do for us newbies!;o)
Jodi

[Donna Chessie]

Removal method for flat panels: crochet 1 chain, crochet 2 chains >>> The page cannot be found > waaaaaaaa

[loretta]

I just received a wonderloom fine sock loom with 60 pegs
your book on sock looming has patterns with 64 or more stitches. how can I use this loom to make socks for my family do I need to convert some patterns?

[Isela]

Yep, you will need to look at the pattern stitch repeat and find one that works for the size of foot you want to make. For example, if the pattern stitch repeat is 4 and you want to make a sock for an adult (48 pegs) you would set your loom for 48 pegs and then do the stitch pattern over the 48 pegs (4 fits into 48, 12 times).

Hope this helps.

Isela
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

[Annalee]

I'm searching for instructions on how to increase on a knifty knitter long loom using the clips. I keep getting obvious holes following the instructions that came with them. I'm trying to create a baseball bat, decreasing seemed to work fine, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.

[Isela]

Have you seen the increase of: K1FB? This one doesnt create a
hole:
http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=278dafbff2bce2897208c5

You can also try the M1 increase:
http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/view_shared?p=283c6d6c84eeed2fa4a59c

Isela

[Ruthie]

Thank you for your free patterns and instructions. I am just getting started and having lots of fun. I especially like your instructions with pictures to follow along with. Your a doll for taking the time to do all this. I am hopeing to make some hats for cancers patients,young and old. Happy knitting, Ruthie

[Michelle]

What is double eight and double stockinette. Trying to make aj baby blanket on knittingboardchat.com site and confused with pattern. Can anyone help

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[Becky]

hello Isela, Thank you so much for the great tutorials and instructions, they are such a big help. I get on your site daily to figure out new stitches and how to start knitting with my new Authentic knitting board. I have not really made anything with it yet, but I plan to make many small projects to sell at our farmers market next year. I do have a question for you. Is there any way you could do a simple instruction on how to convert regular needle knitting patterns to the loom? I would be so grateful for it as the one that I found was very confusing to me. It would be great to have a video tutorial for it, but that is extensive I'm sure. I know that it would be very helpful for new loomers like me to learn how other experienced loomers work other patterns. I just am having a hard time finding any loomers that would do it. Thank you again for all your hard work
Blessings
Becky

[lesley clarke]

Hello please help me I recently bought a set of round looms and I am getting ladders in between all of my stitches. What am I doing wrong I am so frustrated thankyou
I also bought your book to help me
thankyou Lesley

[wendy probert]

hi isela, can you pleases tell me how to do moss stitch on a round loom and a long loom? thankyou so much

[Elaine]

Hi Isela

I tried downloading some of the tutorials and nothing came up - I do have Adobe for pdf files so I am wondering if anyone has had a similar problem and maybe a solution.

I am new to loom knitting and am looking forward to getting started.

thanks.

[Luv]

Hi Isela!
I have just recently purchased a set of looms for my daughter. She has been knitting for quite a few years and I thought the looms would give her an opportunity to speed up some of her simpler projects. She still does more basic stitches and gets confused while trying to read charts, however, she can knit whatever she likes on her own w/o a pattern.

My question for you is...
I have watched some of your videos on youtube and want to know, when you "knit" you use a different method than the "e-wrap" knit method most of the time... You go up the bottom stitch w/ hook, scoop the working yarn, make a loop, slide off old stitch and then put loop back on the peg...
Then you say - Knit stitch...
Is this just another method of doing the e-knit? It looks very similar to purling besides the working yarn being at the top of your existing stitch rather than the bottom.
I ask because I haven't seen this method anywhere else.
Please share the workings of that method and reasoning behind - OR let me know what difference that stitch has to the e-stitch.
Thx so much! I look forward to seeing more techniques from you.

~Luv

[Isela]

Hi,
The main difference is that the e-wrap stitch produces whats called
the Twisted Knit stitch (as in needles) and the Knit Stitch produces
the regular V stitch as you see on most knitted garments. The e-wrap
has a little twisted look at the bottom of the V making look more
like a y rather than a v the knit stitch I demonstrate takes
that twist out and leaves it looking like a v. I want my items to
resemble needle knitted garments as close as possible and the Knit
Stitch provides me with that look.

Having talked about the Knit Stitch, I want to point out that there
are 3 different ways to get the Knit Stitch--the version you saw on
my video where it is like an upside down purl. There is also another
method where you simply lay the yarn above the wrap on the peg and
knit over the bottom loop. Then the 3rd version has you hug the
peg with the yarn and then lift over the bottom yarn. The difference
that I have seen are the following: a tighter knit stitch and it is
shorter in height.

I hope this helps.

Isela Phelps

[alison]

Hi Isela,
While trying to complete the "buttoned up" hat pattern, I have run into a question after finishing the brim. Since I had to BO4 at the beginning of row9, now I am at the last peg on row10 and I'm not sure whether to continue the stockinette stitch in a CW direction - (meaning I would knit over pegs which were already BO) or continue the stockinette stitch in a CCW direction to complete 26 rounds.
Thank you for your help!!

[R. Belhumeur]

Bonjour Isela,
J'ai vu sur ton site le MINI SCARFLET croisé avec 2 boutons, je le trouve magnifique.
Est-ce possible d'avoir le patron.
Merci de ta bonne attention et te souhaite une BOnne Année et de la santé
R.B.
Laval, P.Q.

[Luv]

Isela,
Thanks so much for clarifying the knit stitches for me! I refer to your site often right now and although I do watch other people's methods as well, I have learned a lot from the many tutorials and have been able to develop my own methods incorporated with what you show. I feel confident to soon start my own project and hope to have a "pattern" to share as well. I finished my hat, I am very close to finishing my first pair of knee hi socks (they have turned out so cute), and I am working on my design for a pocket scarf. Once I am done with that I will be making my mother a scarf "hat". I haven't even started on my long looms and am getting pretty anxious. LOL I already have coupons ready for my next loom. Wanting a finer gauge but more versatility than just socks so I am searching for other things or a longer loom with adjustable pegs so I can do as I want. Budget though, big issue. Thanks again! You have been very helpful. I will have to look up the other types of knit stitch. I'd like to see when I should maybe use each one depending on the pattern I am working.

~Luv