Knitting Loom Projects
Posted in Sewing on 05/15/2004 09:17 am by admin
Is a knitting loom really worth it?
I am considering getting one of those knitting looms. Are they really worth it? Can you do more projects with it as opposed to regular knitting?
Knitting looms come in so many sizes and guages now that they and the items/garments you can make are almost endless--hats, yes, but socks, shrugs, afghans, sweaters, scarves, purses and bags, ipod and cell phone cozies, fingerless gloves/arm gauntlets, etc.
Check out some of the free yahoo groups on loom or rake or knifty knitter knitting. I did and am glad I did. I aready did crochet, machine knitting, beading, etc but was not a two needle knitter before I started into that craft with a knitting loom called a knittingboard and a few Knifty Knitters.
Some loommakers, including decoraccents, provocraft, bevscountrycottage, red oak creations and others have free patterns and animated tutorials/videos to learn new stitches oro ffer additional pattern books.
Isela Phelps is a particularly good loom knitting designer and so are Sara Buchanan, Connie Tenclay and others who are members of the yahoo groups i belong to.
I agree that some of the bulky, chunky things made on the knifty knitters as well as some of the earlier free patterns floating around on the net, were kind of bulky, chunky, ugly and homemade looking. But that's not the case now.
Amazon.com will soon sell a book by Phelps called Loom Knitting Primer and given what I know of her everyday stuff, I bet that will be cool. There are two other loom books out already that I know of: Learn to Knit on Circle Looms and Knitting Wheel Fashions, that are more basic.
In my opinion you are limited in this, as in any craft, only by your imagination, your willingness or unwillingness to branch out from the basics, your willingness to master the basics before launching into newer (potentially more difficult and/or frustrating) techniques, etc.
Like any craft or artistic skill, you have to come to it with an open mind and ready/willing hands.
If you want to try it, do! A complete set of beginner, chunky guage looms at wally world or hobby lobby may cost you less than $15 plus the cost of some yarn to get started. Why not try it and see?
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