Loom extender projects

Here are a few ideas using the loom extender.  The wall hanging was created by our Knitting Board group moderator Sue Kreitzer, this was her fist loom extender project. Margaret Conroy did the beautiful striped pieces. Both of you, nice work.

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Fun time at Lion Brand Studio

October 14th we visited the Lion Brand Studio in New York City to present  the Knitting Board and show what it can create. It was lots of fun !! So many customers came in with the impression that you can only make potholders and simple scarves on Knitting Boards. We showed them all kinds of stitches and brought 2 giant suitcases of knitwear. They were really surprised about all that you can create.

Criss Cross

Stitch…..a favorite stitch with so much texture!     

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Knitting Board Basics Book

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Beautiful Afghans – Thank you Sue!!

Sue Kreitzer in Sanger TX has really stepped up and knit 3 complete afghans for our homeless and cold families in North Dakota.   She also did all the sewing of the pieces.   2 of them were knit in squares using many beautiful stitches and detail, and the red, white, and blue one is a one piece design.   Great work shows a lot of caring for less fortunate women and children. Thank you, Sue!                                                          

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Sewing Button Tips with thick knit

Since we are working with Double Knit, sewing on buttons may require  a little different techinique from sewing onto thin  knit or material.   The button hole with bulky knits can be very thick when placed onto the button.  

When sewing the button onto a thick piece of knitting, you want to use the yarn whevever possible and leave some space between the knitting and the button.   That way, when you button up, the knitted buttonhole will lay nice and flat and not ‘bunched’.

Lace the yarn thru the button, pull the ends of the yarn thru the knitting.   Leave enough space between the button and knitting for the thickness of the buttonhole piece.   Bring one strand back up to the button and wrap the yarn around the  sewing yarn  that secures the button, so that the button ‘stands up’ and retains the spacing.   Pull the yarn tail back into the knitting and knot the 2 ends of yarn to secure.  

Now, no bunching-it lays nice and smooth.

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Rib Stitch–when increasing we shift our starting position?

When doing the Rib Stitch, we create  each rib with 2 stitches that form a pair.   To maintain the pairs or ribs, we need to start on same  needles with each row, and that is the first to the third needles.   But, what happens when we decrease a stitch at beginning of row; we alter the formation of the pairs, or, we leave only one stitch for the first rib.

So, we must start the knitting by skipping that lonely single stitch, and start with the next rib.   So, the first stitch stands alone, and we start the row on needles 2 and 4.   This will keep the pairs and the ribs continuing without shifting.   The first stitch will be picked up in the return of the circular.

Then, when we do another decrease, we will eliminate the lonely first stitch.   So the next pair of stitches becomes the needles 1 and 3.   So we will continue the knitting by going back to the original sequence.

What if we increase now.   Well, we just added the lonely first stitch back and we would shift back to the 2 and 4 starting for each row.

The important thing here is to compensate for the loss of a part of a rib and maintain all the others in their sequence.

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