Okay, thanks to Therese I have taken up this crazy looming hats business again. Several years ago I visited a friend in Utah, who had these rubbery looms like the hard ones you see in the above picture. She's loaned these looms to me for an awful long time . . . I really need to mail them back to her - especially before we move to Hawaii. It's on my "to do" list, which is current and currently being eradicated each day. I'm just checking things off that list, baby! Anyhoo - I have the circle set above (they are, in my opinion, inferior to the ones loaned me by my friend), but I make do. I bought the long red loom yesterday along with several skeins of cotton and wool yarns yesterday. . . I need to be doing this like I need another hole in my head. Tho' I forgot how fun it can be and how satisfying it is when I cinch shut a finished hat. Everything and anything I "knit" from here on out goes in a donation box: I won't be needing any of these things in Hawaii.
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I want to try those things. I have a million other things I want to do also. You can really make a hat from that?
Interesting
that looks fun, but too complicated for my brain.....
Yes, you really can make hats on the circle looms. I've done one (rather, quite a few) hat on each loom size (the smallest I have and that produced a doll size we put on our cat to piss her off whilst we die laughing) . . . I have seen the scarf loom produce lovely lovely scarves (blogger Dawn has one and I've seen the ones she's made on it) or I wouldn't believe it.
Regan - and I thunk that about the needles and hook type of knitting/crocheting. Hmmmm. Well, I need a readily available all the time, patient teacher. I still desire to knit and crochet in its proper form.
Sarah-I have addicted more than you...so sorry...I will be moving on to some baby blankets on the long ones shortly...
I also crochet, but I find this goes much quicker...and my SIL tried teaching me how to knit on needles...NOT gonna happen!
Therese - I know! Dawn told me she's looming in the car here and back! Her dilemma? She ran out of yarn on the way up here!!! Poor girl!
I am actually glad you brought this back out of me . . . still. It's one of those crafty things that ensnares one to the depths of yarn hell . . . but I'll get through it. I may try an afghan some day.
At least my cat may come visit me again (now that I have something in my lap she's interested in).
Hugs,
Sarah
No worries, I don't have time to make anything with them if I had them. Maybe I could teach the kids to do them and give myself some free time.
shoot, I haven't seent those in YEARS!! always called it weaving myself. I had a square one as a kid, METAL, can you believe?? that I used to make potholders...I think everyone in my family had woven potholders back then. I loved it.
let's see......do I need a new handcraft?? well......um.........well...............................................................
(tempting)
OH, come on by and I'll teach you to crochet. Even to follow a pattern!! It's not hard at all!! :-)
Erika - I am actually trying to finish a left off hat on one of the looms - then I have the other two in a box ready to ship. I didn't realize I had them until I started digging around . . . you know, getting ready to move does that to me . . . I am actively looking for a set like those, though, because they are better. I like the furniture tac - it holds the yarn better so I don't have to hold the string in place as I go around. I have't found a good way to tether the yarn on those hard ones. Don't worry, though, your pay it forward gift will NOT be something from the looms. :-)
MM- awww, pick up some of these and teach your kids! It's kinda fun to weave in and around and around. Patterns and such. Fun stuff!
I'll be hopefully finishing that hat today while I watch cub scouts race their pinewood derby cars. I'll post a picture of my girl's and my youngest son's cars later.
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