Hey Everyone I have been really tied up with alot of things the last year! I am back and will be posting more regularly here. I am still looming and still love it. I want to thank everyone who has posted comments here. I have gotten alot of comments on the one loom Mitten. Thanks abunch
Knitting Thimble
September 21, 2006 at 9:50 am (Looming, Odds and Ends)
After I started my sock I found this Knitting Thimble at Wal-Mart.
I was have trouble with loosing the yarn tension when I would do the purl stitchs. I would use the tip of my finger to hold the loop and I would loose the yarn. This thimble help me keep track of the yarn and knitting went faster. As you can see there are to curling hooks on it. I used the one up front for the yarn. If you were using two differnet colors of yarn and changing back and forth you would hook one color on one of the hooks and the other on the other hook. I am so glad I found this little knitting gadget.
Kitchen Set
September 19, 2006 at 9:25 am (Free Patterns, Looming, Odds and Ends)
Kitchen Set
These are both knitted on the Blue Knifty Knitter
I used Cotton yarn.
Use two stands of yarn.
Knit using the e- wrap
Dish Soap Cover
Row 1 – 10 knit
Turn brim knit off
Row 11- 27 knit
Row 28 mock crochet stitch around
Row 29 – 36 knit
Take off with gathering method ( don’t pull to tight you need to make the hole big enough to fit around the bottle top)
Then I crochet a cord for it. I didn’t keep track of how many chain stitches i did. Do make it long enough tie around the bottle. I did chain a length and then a chain stitch back in all the chains.
Then weave the cord you made in and out of the moch crochet row. Slip over a dish soap bottle and tie a bow
Towel Holder
Rows 1- 10 Knit
Turn to make brim
Rows 11 – 20 Knit
Take off with gathering stitch leave hole big enough to fit the I-Cord
make I-cord about 10 to 12 inches long tie both ends together to make a loop
insert cord though the hole and then loop towell over the icord under the top part and
pull the I cord tight .
Now you have a item that looks like abell holding a towel. you can put it on a knob or you
can loop it to fit on a bar type handle of you drawers or cuboards. I like this because i can
change the towel when needed and not have to change the top .
My First Socks!!!!
September 19, 2006 at 8:44 am (Looming)
I finally finshed my first pair of socks.
made with 10 sock loom from DA
and I used clown self stripping yarn.
I had so much fum making them. I already have the yarn for the next pair of socks . They will have a higher cuff of them.
Sock Loom and Lepersy Bandage Loom!!!
July 21, 2006 at 12:53 pm (Looming, Odds and Ends)
Wow. I just got my two new looms. I got a Extra Fine Gauge Sock loom and a Lepersy bandage loom. I started working on the lerpersy bandage loom and when I get it long enough I will take pictures and I will be starting on the sock loom as soon as I go and get some markers for it.
Lepersy Bandage Loom
EFG Sock Loom
I’ll keep you posted on whats looming on these looms
Baby Bootie Heel Update!
July 12, 2006 at 10:03 am (Free Patterns, Looming, Odds and Ends)
This is to help all of you out there that have different size bootie looms.
The pattern here for the booties in the baby set patterns was made with a 20 peg loom. I have also used a 18 peg loom too. I had a help question about using a 15 peg loom so here is what you need to do for the heel using different looms. Every thing else will stay the same except the heel.
15 peg loom heel
wrap pegs 1 thru 10 knit off
wrap pegs 9 thru 2 knit off
wrap pegs 3 thru 8 knit off
wrap pegs 7 thru 4 knit off
wrap pegs 5 thru 6 knit off
wrap pegs 7 thru 4 knit off
wrap pegs 3 thru 8 knit off
wrap pegs 9 thru 2 knit off
wrap pegs 1 thru 15 knit off
go on with step five
18 peg loom heel
wrap 1 thru 12 knit off
wrap 11 thru 2 knit off
wrap 3 thru 10 knit off
wrap 9 thru 4 knit off
wrap 5 thru 8 knit off
wrap 7 thru 6 Knit off
wrap 8 thru 5 knit off
wrap 4 thru 9 knit off
wrap 10 thru 3 knit off
wrap 2 thru 11 knit off
wrap 1 thru 18 knit off
start step 5
20 peg bootie loom instructions are with they pattern with baby set under free patterns. I hope this helps with different looms.
Baby Set Patterns
July 1, 2006 at 11:29 am (Free Patterns, Looming, Odds and Ends)
Baby Set
Items needed
yarn- I used one strand of Red Hearts Hunny Brand( I used two skeins of it).
Knitting Tool
Yarn Needle
Looms- Da small gauge stocking loom and Da small gauge Bootie loom
Ribbon or Cord for bows on mittens and booties
The Set is done using the ewrap stitch
Baby Hat
Using the small gauge stocking loom (36 pegs)
Step One- Knit 10 Rows
Step two- Make Cuff
Step Three- Knit 22 Rowsj
Step Four- take off loom using the gather method
If using any thing else besides Hunny yarn from Red Hearts you will have to make adjustments with the amount of rows.
Baby Mittens
Using small gauge bootie loom (20 peg)
Step one- knit 10 rows
Step two- Make cuff
Step three- knit 15 rows
Step four take off using gather method
Step five- weave ribbon or cord in and out by the cuff and tie
Baby Booties
Using small gauge bootie loom (20 peg)
Step one- knit 10 rows
Step two- turn cuff
Step three- knit two rows
Step Four- ( start heel This will be done flat knitting not in the round)
Wrap pegs 1 thru 14 knit off
wrap pegs 13 – 2 knit off
wrap pegs 3- 12 knit off
wrap pegs 11- 4 knit off
wrap pegs 5- 10 knit off
wrap pegs 9- 6 knit off
wrap pegs 7-8 knit off
wrap pegs 9-6 knit off
wrap pegs 5- 10 knit off
wrap pegs 11-4 knit off
wrap pegs 3 – 12 knit off
wrap pegs 13 -2 knit off
wrap pegs 1- 10 knit off
Step five knitting in the round again I knit 10 rows. This is wear you can adjust the length of the foot. Add or subtract the amount of rows as you need to.
Step Six- take off with gather method
Step Seven- Weave ribbon or cord in and out by cuff to form the Tie.
© 2006 Amy Kay For personal use only. All other use please contact the designer for permission.
Baby Set done!
June 30, 2006 at 5:08 pm (Looming, Odds and Ends)
I finshed the Baby set for my friends new baby. I love the yarn. It is from Red Heart called Hunny the color is Seaspray paint. It is a chenille type of yarn. It is soft too. Click on a picture to see in larger size.
The whole set.
Baby Hat
Hand mittens
Booties done on small gauge bootie loom.
Can’t wait to do another set for another friend of mine. Patterns comimg soon for the set.
Yarn Store Heaven
June 27, 2006 at 9:14 am (Looming, Odds and Ends)
We just had a yarn store open up in town. Yeah!!!!! I am so excited about it. I guess anyone living here would be excited about it. Before this store opened up, all we had was wal-mart to buy yarn at. Recently our Wallmart store cut their yarn selection by 2/3. IT is a 4 hour drive to any other yarn store. So this is going to be fun. When traveling I have gone to yarn shops and everything is wonderful. I just can’t afford much there. This yarn shop has both the nice expensive yarn and yarn that is less expensive too. I bought some red hearts yarn “Hunny” it is so soft. It was calling out to me. So I bought a skein of it to do some booties or something small to see how I like it. I got home and found out that my friend had had her baby a week early a little boy. I am making booties for him. I have one done and going to start the other. I think I will make matching hand mittens and then go back buy more of it and make a hat. This Hunny yarn is so soft. IF you haven’t tried it you should. I will post pictures soon.
How to make your picture Bigger when you click on it.!
June 19, 2006 at 3:12 pm (Odds and Ends)
First upload your photo. Then left click on it and a few things should come up on it. where it says not linked click on that till you it says link to image leave it like that and them close options. Then move it into your blog. When people see it they will be able to click on the photo and it will enlarge for them.
Here's a new photo of the Puppy!
She's beaten the summer heat!
