Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects

Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects
by Isela Phelps

Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects
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Author: Isela Phelps
Brand: St Martins Press
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03-20
ISBN: 0312366612
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Book Reviews of Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects

Book Review: Better than the rest - great starting resource
Summary: 4 Stars

The beauty of loom knitting is that you can produce wearable items on day 1, and there are plenty of free patterns on Provocraft's website (maker of Knifty Knitter). However, there are very few convenient resources to demonstrate how to produce individual stitches, combine them, and also provide more advanced patterns. This book has all of these.

However, there are a few downsides. The organization of the book is a tad bit flawed, which other have noted. This makes it difficult to use easily as a reference, but not too detracting. Sometimes new stitches are explained rather than diagrammed. This is most notable on the mock-cable knit hat where the cross stitch is not diagrammed like other stitches making it difficult to produce the stitch or adequately learn it to apply to other projects. I'll admit - I thought I understood the instructions, but I did not get the desired result. One other point of detraction is that while the author uses multiple manufacturer's looms, she says things like "blue knifty knitter loom" - it would be more universal to give diameter and peg number.

Summary of Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects

Knitting looms are flying off the shelves in craft stores because loom- knitting is such an easy craft to take up-it can be learned by both children and adults alike in just a few hours. If you have fond memories of spool knitting (a round wooden spool with a central hole surrounded by four small nails) when you were a child then you know how easy it was to create yards and yards of knitted tubes. Today's loom are just as easy and fun to use!
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Widely available in craft stores, looms come in a variety of shapes and sizes, some are circular, others rectangular, some tiny and some large. The size of the loom dictates the size of the knitted piece although you can easily join smaller panels together to make larger items.
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This book is designed as a hands on project resource as well as an essential reference for the growing band of loom knitters.? Clear step by step illustrations throughout show how to cast-on, bind-off and knit a wide range of stitches on both round looms and knitting boards.? Practice projects are provided for each technique, and there are more then 30 attractive patterns to get the crafter started.
-???????? the first book to provide patterns for an increasingly popular tool
-???????? comprehensive techniques and information provide the essential back-up manual to supplement the minimal instructions that come with the looms
-???????? over 30 quick and easy patterns for sweaters and accessories
-???????? written by an expert in the field
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