Loom knitting
Mar. 21st, 2010 06:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelFor those curious, here are some pictures of the sock loom in action, with the late lamented partial sock in action.
As a reference point, this is the loom I have. Looms are basically a frame with a bunch of pegs sticking up at regular intervals, and the basic stitch is just looping the yarn around each peg, then looping the yarn around each peg again so there are two loops on the pegs, then using a not-quite-a-crochet-hook pointy tool to pull the bottom loop over the top loop and off the peg.
(... purl stitches are more complicated. ( ... and perl stitches, which is what I typed at first, just make my head hurt.))
Anyway, now that I have thoroughly confused you all, here are some pictures of loominess.
Top-down view of the loom. Pegs are pointing up towards you, active loops are on the pegs; completed rows feed down through the middle. (Observant people may be able to tell that some pegs do not have loops on them; it is even harder from this angle to tell that some pegs have two. This is because it was set up for a row of lace, so the doubled loops are for decreasing and the empty loops are for yarn-over-ing.)
Somewhat underneath-of-horizontal side angle. Well, technically, it's a high view of a flipped-over loom, not a low view of an upright loom. Pegs are down, and you can see some of the completed rows, although a good 12-or-so rows are hidden by the loom.
... The loom, by the way, is now empty. This is because of the thing where the instructions for ssk and k2tog were backwards and the pattern is therefore b0rked, and so I had to frog the whole damn thing. (Technically, the ribbing was fine; but there was no way I could frog back to the ribbing and get all of the stitches back on the pegs without major disaster, and fixing dropped stitches is practically impossible for me on the loom, so it was easier to just frog everything and re-do the inch of ribbing.)
(...plus, that allows me to doctor up a proper stitch count marker thingie. The current system, red twist-ties every eight stitches [for a 16-stitch lace pattern], functions but is less than ideal. Also doesn't have opportunities for shiny beads!)
As a reference point, this is the loom I have. Looms are basically a frame with a bunch of pegs sticking up at regular intervals, and the basic stitch is just looping the yarn around each peg, then looping the yarn around each peg again so there are two loops on the pegs, then using a not-quite-a-crochet-hook pointy tool to pull the bottom loop over the top loop and off the peg.
(... purl stitches are more complicated. ( ... and perl stitches, which is what I typed at first, just make my head hurt.))
Anyway, now that I have thoroughly confused you all, here are some pictures of loominess.
Top-down view of the loom. Pegs are pointing up towards you, active loops are on the pegs; completed rows feed down through the middle. (Observant people may be able to tell that some pegs do not have loops on them; it is even harder from this angle to tell that some pegs have two. This is because it was set up for a row of lace, so the doubled loops are for decreasing and the empty loops are for yarn-over-ing.)
Somewhat underneath-of-horizontal side angle. Well, technically, it's a high view of a flipped-over loom, not a low view of an upright loom. Pegs are down, and you can see some of the completed rows, although a good 12-or-so rows are hidden by the loom.
... The loom, by the way, is now empty. This is because of the thing where the instructions for ssk and k2tog were backwards and the pattern is therefore b0rked, and so I had to frog the whole damn thing. (Technically, the ribbing was fine; but there was no way I could frog back to the ribbing and get all of the stitches back on the pegs without major disaster, and fixing dropped stitches is practically impossible for me on the loom, so it was easier to just frog everything and re-do the inch of ribbing.)
(...plus, that allows me to doctor up a proper stitch count marker thingie. The current system, red twist-ties every eight stitches [for a 16-stitch lace pattern], functions but is less than ideal. Also doesn't have opportunities for shiny beads!)
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Date: 2010-03-23 06:42 pm (UTC)It would be a real pain in the ass to sit down with an abacus and move something over every time you hit 16 stitches too, and re-do that every row, wouldn't it? Damn.