Wrapping the Knifty Knitter Loom -
You begin by securing the slip knot to the first side
peg rather than the anchor peg as directed in the E-Wrap. The end pegs
of the Knifty Knitter Loom are not used. Wrap the yarn across to the peg
on the other side of the loom. If you are wrapping from the left side of
the loom you pull the yarn to the right side of the first peg. Make a
loop around the peg. Stretch the yarn across to the next peg on the same
side of the loom. The yarn should cross to the next peg on the inside,
not the outside of the loom. Rap this peg from the right side to the
left side also. Stretch the yarn across to the peg on the opposite side
of the loom and continue the pattern always looping pegs from the right
side of the peg to the left side, so that the yarn crosses on the inside
of the loom. You can enlarge the photo on the left by clicking it to see
the yarn pattern more closely.
Once you have wrapped the desired pegs, wrap the loom
a second time. Do this by tracing the yarn pattern exactly back to the
beginning of the loom. As you can see in the photo, the only peg that
isn't wrapped in exactly the same yarn pattern is the last peg to be
rapped. To continue back across the loom the yarn is simply ran around
this peg rather than actually wrapped.
Knitting off -
You will knit off by hooking the bottom loop on your Knifty
Knitter loom with the Knifty Knitter hook and pulling the loop up over
the loops above it and off the peg. This can be done in a one-over-one
pattern in which one loop is pulled up over one loop on the peg. It can
also be done in a one-over-two pattern for a tighter weave. To knit off
in a one-over-two pattern begin by wrapping the Knifty Knitter loom 3
times. Pull the bottom loop over the top two loops and off the peg. Wrap
the loom again and knit of again pulling one loop up over two loops and
then the peg. Continue this pattern of wrapping the loom and knitting
off. The photo to the left is a swatch of ribbed knitting from the
Knifty Knitter loom. The bottom of the swatch has a looser knit
resulting from one-over-one knitting off. The top of the swatch has a
tighter knit resulting from one-over-two knitting off. You can also knit
off in a one-over-three pattern, but this gets a little tight when
knitting off, so be sure to wrap loosely with this pattern.
To remove your knitting from the Knifty Knitter loom,
begin with the farthest peg from the yarn you are working with. Remove
the loops from the peg. Following the path of the yarn on your loom,
remove the next set off loops. Feed the first set of loops your removed
through the second set of loops you removed with a crochet hook.
Continue to remove the loops from the pegs and feed the previous loop
through it until you reach the yarn. Feed the yarn through the last set
of loops. Make sure that you follow the pattern of the yarn on the loom
as you remove loops.