This pattern is for a dish cloth made using the smallest round loom in the set. It's a quick and easy project, perfect for the beginner. It's recommended that cotton yarn be used. The stitch used is the one-over-two stitch. What you'll need: Blue Round Knifty Knitter Loom Cotton Yarn Yarn Needle
E Wrap the loom time. Reverse wrapping direction and wrap a 2nd time. Reverse direction again and wrap a 3rd time.
Pull the bottom loop on each peg over the two loops above.
Two loops will remain on the loom. Wrap once again and repeat step 2.
Continue wrapping a row and knitting until the knit is about 9 inches.
Use the panel stitch cast off to remove the knit from the loom. Begin at the end farthest away from the working yarn. Remove 2 loops. Using a crochet hook, pull the 2nd to the last loop through the last loop. Lift off the 3rd loop, pull the 3rd loop through the 2nd loop. Continue until you've reached the working yarn. Tie a square knot around the last loop.
Loom knitted items can be felted. This gives the knit the appearance of a flat piece of felt fabric, rather than knit. To felt an item, use classic wool yarn. The Pattons brand works well for felting. Knit the item much larger than the finished garment. Wash in a machine, or soak in hot water to felt and shrink the item, then lay flat to dry. Here are the instructions for felting an already knitted bag and dying it with KoolAid:
Use Pattons wool yarn in Winter White (or other white wool yarn) to make the knitted bag.
Use a pan large enough to hold the bag and cover it with water. Place the water in the pan and bring it to a boil.
Place the knitted bag in the water and boil it for 2 -3 minutes.
Remove the bag from the water.
Add the 3 packages UNSWEETENED KoolAid mix to the water. Boil the water, stirring until the KoolAid is dissolved.
Place the bag back into the water and continue to boil until all the color has left the water and soaked into the wool instead. The water will be a milky or clear color. If you are using cherry KoolAid, for example, no red will remain in the water.
Remove the felted knit from the boiling water and place it in cold water until it has cooled.
Squeeze the water out.
Return it to boiling water once more and boil for 3 minutes.
Return the felted knit to cold water once more until it has cooled again.
Wash the felted knit in a washing machine and lay flat to dry.
This pattern is for golf club covers, a unique gift for your favorite golfer. You'll be using the e-wrap and any worsted weight yarn. You can change the yarn colors to create stripes as you knit.
E-wrap the loom and knit until the length measures 4 inches.
Pull the first row up to the pegs and place it back on the loom.
Knit. This creates a cuff.
E-wrap and knit for 5 1/2 more inches.
To make a stripe, change to white yarn and knit for 5 rows.
Change back to the original color and knit for 5 rows.
Change to white again and knit for 5 rows.
Change to the original color and knit 5 more inches.
Use the gathered stitch to remove the work from the loom. To do this cut the working yarn to a length of 10 inches. Thread it through a yarn needle. Starting with the peg closest to the working yarn, thread it through each loop as you pull the loop off each peg. Continue
working around the loom in this manner until you have all the loops removed. Pull the
working yarn tight to gather the knit. Tie off the working yarn in a double knot and cut it to a few inches. Use the yarn needle to sew the remaining yarn tail into the under side of the golf club cover.
The gathered edge is the top of the golf club cover and you can add a pom pom if desired.
Note: As an alternative method of casting off you may cut a separate piece of yarn and passed it through the stitches as they are removed from the loom. Then square knot each end of this yarn on the inside of the cover.
For those of you that haven't made pom poms before, here is a tutorial for making them on the Knifty Knitter pom pom maker. You can use these methods without a pom pom maker by stretching them across a small loom. The pom pom maker just makes it a little easier.
