more on the last post
Mar. 23rd, 2010 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysobelSo my last, way-too-mopey-to-be-totally-coherent post was about stitch counters, and the trials and tribulations of making them. And I kind of forgot to clarify what I was talking about. Pictures in my head were clear, but that really doesn't help anyone else...
So, explanation. This is for the loom, not needle knitting, so standard stitch counters don't work. (Which is a shame, because I know how to make those.) Really, peg markers would be a better description. I can't even read the previous row's stitches, so either I would have to count from the beginning of the row if I lose my place, or I find some way of marking regular intervals between the pegs.
If you look at the pics here, you can see the red twist-tie version. Fits between the pegs, wraps around the loom, fastens so it doesn't fall off.
My idea was to have a length of wire or thread, long enough to go around the loom, with fastenings to hold it closed in a loop; sturdy enough to stay there through a pattern, but removable so that I could change for different patterns. (Current one wants every 8, more or less. Really every 16, but it's nice having the middle indicated too. Other patterns will want different things.)
But the simplest thing I could think of -- fastenings + wire, with crimp beads holding it on -- didn't work easily, since the metallic fastenings kept jumping to the tools and interfering with the trying-to-crimp process. So I stuck a bead between the fastening and the crimp, and it wasn't gorgeous but it sort of worked.
...except that the weight of beads+fastenings dragged the loop down so that it was all on the bottom. Which would be okay except that I was trying to do different beads for middle-of-section and end-of-section, and I couldn't see the differences. Plus, the magnetic findings kept snapping to each other, which was frustrating.
(Plus, I managed to break one of the wire loops. Go me.)
Mrrrrph.
So, explanation. This is for the loom, not needle knitting, so standard stitch counters don't work. (Which is a shame, because I know how to make those.) Really, peg markers would be a better description. I can't even read the previous row's stitches, so either I would have to count from the beginning of the row if I lose my place, or I find some way of marking regular intervals between the pegs.
If you look at the pics here, you can see the red twist-tie version. Fits between the pegs, wraps around the loom, fastens so it doesn't fall off.
My idea was to have a length of wire or thread, long enough to go around the loom, with fastenings to hold it closed in a loop; sturdy enough to stay there through a pattern, but removable so that I could change for different patterns. (Current one wants every 8, more or less. Really every 16, but it's nice having the middle indicated too. Other patterns will want different things.)
But the simplest thing I could think of -- fastenings + wire, with crimp beads holding it on -- didn't work easily, since the metallic fastenings kept jumping to the tools and interfering with the trying-to-crimp process. So I stuck a bead between the fastening and the crimp, and it wasn't gorgeous but it sort of worked.
...except that the weight of beads+fastenings dragged the loop down so that it was all on the bottom. Which would be okay except that I was trying to do different beads for middle-of-section and end-of-section, and I couldn't see the differences. Plus, the magnetic findings kept snapping to each other, which was frustrating.
(Plus, I managed to break one of the wire loops. Go me.)
Mrrrrph.