Loom Knit

Brimmed Beanie Redo!

I love when I can find a use for my old patterns. Here is another one of my favorites that you can do on the new KB Chunky Premium looms. The Brimmed Beanie uses some of my ultimate favorite yarn, Malabrigo Rasta. Malabrigo Rasta is chunky and luscious! You want to grab it by the handfuls and just sleep on it! 

New re-worked pattern to work on the new Premium Chunky Round Looms.  Grab your copy or save it to your Ravelry. 

If you have the old KK, looms, you may want to grab the old patterns--this is a link to my Box account where I keep a bunch of my old patterns. Link to the original Brimmed Beanie--uses the 41 peg KK loom. 

 

 

Borealis Hat

I love creating little items for babies. I was so happy when KB decided to go forth and design a baby set of knitting looms and I eagerly awaited their release. This pattern uses a simple 2x2 rib stitch for the brim and then the andalusian stitch for the body of the hat. The instructions also include instructions for an adult size hat. However, the sample shown is for the baby size. Also, I cannot express how much I love the Chic Sheep yarn by Red Heart, it is the perfect yarn to use on these looms. 

You can find the link on Ravelry, free of charge. Enjoy!

If you have any questions, please leave me a comment on this blogpost. 

Pattern details:

LOOM:  56 peg Baby Knit Loom (Mint color hat loom) by KB Looms (80 peg Premium Hat loom (orange color hat loom).

YARN:  Approx 65 (105) yds of worsted weight wool yarn. Red Heart Chic Sheep in Vineyard was used in sample (100% wool, 3.5oz/100g; 186yds/170m). 

 

NOTE: 2 sizes provided, baby and adult.

 

 

Creating a Non-Loopy Ewrap Cast on

In my constant search for a nice and clean edge for my loom knit items, I have found a few ways to create the cast on. The one I demonstrate in this video is one of my favorites and it has become my go-to for all my items. It is done quite a bit like the regular ewrap cast on, except you skip every other peg. Once you have gone around the loom, ewrapping every other peg, you will get to the next round and you will

Step 1: knit the first peg

Step 2: pick up the ladder coming behind the next peg, twist it and place it on the empty peg

Step 3: knit the peg from #2 (above)

Repeat all the way around Steps 1-3. 

Here is a video demonstrating the steps. Please let me know in the comments (below) your thoughts after you have tried it out. 

 

New looms alert!!! Baby Knit Loom Set and Pattern

I am so excited to show the latest set of knitting looms by KB Looms, they are my new favorite! The Baby Knit Loom set is truly so cute! They are the perfect size knitting looms to make newborn baby hats and baby booties. 

Details about what is in the package: The set comes with two knitting looms, a 56-peg Hat Loom in a nice soft mint color and a 24-peg Bootie loom in pretty lilac, as well as a knitting tool. They feel so great on the hands and the yarn slides smoothly on those pegs! I absolutely love them! Someone asked me today why I would buy this loom since I can already use the All-n-One to create the same size hat and my response is simple: nothing beats working a hat on a round loom. The process is a lot easier without all those corners to maneuver! 

To introduce the set, I created this cute little hat for your enjoyment. You will need some worsted weight yarn, approximately 60 yards. I love working with merino wool yarns for baby items as this yarn is soft to the touch and keeps the baby warm. 

I have uploaded the pattern onto Ravelry, grab your copy today! 

Drop me a comment if you have any questions! 

 

 

 

 

Sock Loom Video: His & Hers Sock Loom Set-Video 2

The next installment for the His & Hers Sock looms is here! Sorry for the delay, my computer didn't want to upload all the videos and then it took like what seem 20-hours to edit and process. 

So, what exactly is happening in this video? You will be creating the heel of the sock. In this video, you will see demonstrated a short-row heel.  Wait, wait, what is a short-row. A short-row is a shaping technique used in knitting. A short-row is exactly that, a row that is not worked all the way to the end. You will partially work the row and leave the other part unworked. As you do this, you are giving the knitted fabric new shape, creating extra room. Our heels need extra room to accommodate it comfortably without feeling squished. 

Typically, a short-row heel is done over 1/2 the pegs used for the sock. The orange sock loom has 56 thus the heel will be done over 28 pegs. Now that you have the number of pegs to use for the heel, the next part is to find out how many pegs you will short-row to create the extra room for the heel. Typically, you will divide the number of heel stitches by 3. In this case, you will have 28/3=9.33. Since we cannot, do exactly 9.33 pegs, we are going to round down to 9. So we will wrap 9 pegs on the right, leave 10 pegs empty, then wrap 9 pegs (total of 28 pegs). 

As you work the short-row heels, you will first knit from the beginning of the row to one stitch less before each end, then to two stitches less, then to three, then to four...and so on until you reach the number of wrapped stitches that you need  to create your short-row heel(you calculated this above). 

56 peg heel instructions can be found by clicking on this link.

Last part of the series will be posted next weekend!