The Knifty Knitter Looms vs the Boye Looms

A few years ago, Wal-mart carried the Knifty Knitter looms manufactured by Provo Craft. Recently, Wal-mart began carrying looms that said "Knifty Knitter" on the front, but they were manufactured by Boye. Later, the boxes of Boye looms dropped the brand name "Knifty Knitter."

See for yourself:

The original Provo Craft Knifty Knitter round looms:

The Boye Knifty Knitter round looms:

For a short time the Boye box said, "Knifty Knitter," but it no longer does. I bought a set of the Boye round looms now sold at my local Wal-Mart, so that I could compare them to my Provo Craft looms that I bought a few years ago at the same Wal-Mart. Each round loom set comes with 4 looms. The size of the looms in each set is almost identical within 1/8 of an inch.

Because the looms are almost identical in size, and the pegs of only the medium and XL looms vary by 1 peg, they can be used interchangeably in patterns. Check it out:

	Provo Craft	Boye
Small	Blue – 24 pegs	Green – 24 pegs
Medium	Red – 31 pegs	Blue – 30 pegs
Large	Green – 36 pegs	Orange – 36 pegs
Extra Large	Yellow – 41 pegs	Pink – 40 pegs

How to Purl Stitch on the Knifty Knitter

If you've been wondering how to purl stitch on the Knifty Knitter loom, here is a quick and easy tutorial showing how its done courtesy of the Provo craft website.

1. You push the loops on your loom up so that you can run the working yarn under these loops.
2. Lay the working yarn below the loops on the loom.
3. Use your Knifty Knitter hook to pull the working yarn through the loops on the pegs. Yes, the loops on the pegs! :)
4. Knit off pulling the loop off the peg and replacing it with the one that was pulled through.

You can see the YouTube video of how to purl stitch here: YouTube Video