Drop Stitch on a round loom

The drop stitch is a beautiful stitch, I am currently making myself a scarf using this method. I am making it very wide, so I am using my largest round loom.

Here is how I am working this scarf:

Cast on
Rows:

1. Knit (I am using a simple e wrap knit)
2. purl
3. knit
4. purl
5. knit 1, yarn over 3 on the same peg, repeat for all pegs
6. purl 1, drop all yarn overs on the peg, repeat for all pegs
7. knit
8. purl
9. knit

repeat steps 5-9 until you reach the desired length

last 4 rows will be:

1. purl
2. knit
3. purl
4. knit

Cast off with the same cast on stitch you used in the beginning.

LOOM KNITTING- Simple beard & Dwarf beard

LOOM KNITTING- Simple beard & Dwarf beard

You will need a loom with at least 24 pegs on it. This simple beard has only 10 rows and I can now (after making 3) do one beard in 30 minutes. So, its not hard at all!

E wrap cast on

1. e wrap
2. e wrap
3. e wrap
4. e wrap 9 pegs, cast off 6 pegs, e wrap 9 pegs
5. e wrap 9 pegs, cast on 7 pegs, e wrap 9 pegs
6. e wrap
7. e wrap 17 pegs, wrap and turn, e wrap 10 pegs, wrap and turn, e wrap 9 pegs, wrap and turn, e wrap 8 pegs, wrap and turn, e wrap 7 pegs, wrap and turn, e wrap 17 pegs
8. e wrap
9. e wrap
10. e wrap cast off

I attach to a simple hat with velcro or buttons.

You can then turn this beard into the dwarf beard hat by attaching lengths of yarn with scrap yarn to the simple beard. 

Loom Knitting- ski mask, Davey Jones cork screw mask

Loom Knitting- ski mask, Davey Jones cork screw mask

Ski mask:

For an adult size ski mask

• Wrap and knit 10 rows, then fold over to make a thin brim.
• Continue wrapping until you have about 9 inches of "hat".
• From the first peg, 'knit off' 10 pegs. (to tie off, move or decrease posts. Lift post A and move post B over to post A. Then place post A back on top. Knit over. Decrease or tie off complete!)
• Continue by wrapping and knitting 4 rows, back and forth, of the remaining pegs.
• Purl the next row all the way around....leaving just one wrap on the 10 pegs that were bound off.
•  Purl two more rows all the way around.
• Finish off the hat with 6 inches of the top cap portion and take off as usual!

*** For the Davey Jones hat, I then used a scrap piece of yarn in the same color as my hat and tied the middle of the eye opening closed. To give it 2 eyes.

Cork screws:

Instructions:

Basically you are making a 2 peg i-cord that has extra stitches on 1 peg and repeating only 2 steps over and over.

Cast on:

Using only 2 pegs, place your slip knot on peg 1.

Wrap peg 2 by bringing the working yarn around the back of the peg, around the front, and to the back of the loom between the two pegs.

Wrap both pegs again in a figure 8 fashion by wrapping the first peg from behind and around the front, and then wrapping the second peg from behind and around to the front as before.

You should have 2 loops on each peg. Knit over.

Step 1:

E-wrap knit peg 1, 4 times. So each time you wrap peg one, knit over.

Step 2:

Wrap both pegs in the figure 8, knit over

Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you have the desired length.

It will spiral by itself as you make it.

Bind off by placing the loops from peg 1 on peg 2. Knit over. Then cut the working yarn and pull through the final loop to secure.

*** you will need a lot of these in varying lengths to make the Davey Jones hat. Once complete, attach to the ski mask by sewing it on with a strand of yarn.

Loom Knnitting

Loom Knitting

I began loom knitting in October, with that said, please understand that I am not a professional, I do however, have a tenacious ablity to learn new things quickly, I call myself a knowledge junkie for a reason lol.

For those of you who have followed my blog from the beginning. I could not fin it in my heart to continue with the doll house after my Nanny passed away. She was so excited to see it come together, and I tried to work on it in her memory, but I just couldn't without becoming depressed. So, I gave up on that, now, I am onto loom knitting, which I can do in her memory, as well as mawmaw Jeffers memory, as Nanny was a great crocheter, and Mawmaw was a knitter of great talent. I could never get the hang of either, but with the looms I am doing well. So, I will post some how to's in their memory and hope that it helps some out!