Tutorial: Ribbing Stitch Using A Long Knitting Loom !

Hello Loom Knitters!

What do you knit with your looms these days?

I prepare the tutorials for the following stitches with photos, samples and anything that can help you!  

Today, I'll show you the Ribbing Stitch in a long rectangular knitting loom!

First we start by casting on using the anchor yarn.

Then we follow the steps indicated in the following photo. We start knitting from peg A1 (blue yarn) to peg B3 and we wrap every other peg on both rows of pegs except for B11 and B12 that they would be wrapped consecutive. We turn back with the red yarn wrapping the rest pegs and we also wrap consecutive B1 and B2. We secure our yarn to the external peg and we hook over so every peg has one loop.

This is Ribbing Stitch! 

It's easy and impressive at the same time!  Give it a try and let me know!

Tutorial: Cast On, Bind Off and Stockinette Stitch Using A Long Knitting Loom!

Hello my friends!

How are you?

I think that it's our time for creation, joy and relaxation! I think that it's the time to start Loom Knitting!

Let's start by learning how to cast on and bind off and of course a very easy and beautiful stitch, the stockinette stitch in a long rectangular knitting loom.

* I would advise you for the first time to use the smaller knitting loom, the one with 12 pegs, and a cheap acrylic yarn as it will be more easy to work with, especially at the beginning!

The first step for loom knitting is the Cast on. 

Below you can see the steps for casting on one by one.

Now we will learn the Stockinette stitch. It's a very easy stitch with which you can loom knit many many things as scarves, sweaters, bags, pillows and whatever you want!

Below you can see how this stitch looks like using a medium worsted acrylic yarn. When we will bind off, the edgings would not be curly as shown at the photo but straight.

 Finally, we have to bind off. Let's see how!

In a few days I will post photos of bind off too. 


Please don' t hesitate to ask me whatever you think it's complicated to you!

Welcome! / Καλωσήρθατε!

Γεια σας!!! Είμαι η Knitting (b)Loomer και έχω τη μεγάλη χαρά να σας καλωσορίσω στο ζεστό σπιτικό μου! Αν με ρωτούσε κάποιος 1,5 χρόνο πριν, ποια είναι η σχέση μου με το πλέξιμο, θα του απαντούσα αμέσως: «Εγώ να πλέξω;;; Ποτέ!!!» και το εννοούσα! Μέχρι που ένα μεσημέρι καθώς περπατούσα και χάζευα βιτρίνες, έπεσα πάνω σε ένα μαγαζί με νήματα, μαλλιά, βελόνες και όλα αυτά τα άγνωστα (μέχρι τότε) σε μένα αντικείμενα. Μέσα από τη βιτρίνα με φλέρταρε έντονα ένα πολύχρωμο νήμα. Ήταν απλά τέλειο! Είχε όλα τα χρώματα του ουράνιου τόξου και σου έφτιαχνε τη διάθεση μόνο που το έβλεπες! Μπήκα μέσα και με καλωσόρισε μία χαμογελαστή και γλυκύτατη κυρία. Της εξομολογήθηκα ότι ήμουν άσχετη με το πλέξιμο αλλά ήθελα να προσπαθήσω να πλέξω ένα κασκόλ με το νήμα που με φλέρταρε. «Δεν είναι δύσκολο!», μου είπε. «Θα τα καταφέρεις σίγουρα!». Αγόρασα, λοιπόν, 2 κουβάρια νήμα και βελόνες Νο3! Αυτό ήταν! Σε όλη τη διαδρομή με το λεωφορείο, μέχρι να φτάσω σπίτι, περιεργαζόμουν τα νέα μου αποκτήματα. Διάβαζα και ξαναδιάβαζα την ετικέτα του νήματος χωρίς να καταλαβαίνω και πολύ τι έγραφε και που χρησίμευαν αυτές οι πληροφορίες. Ένιωθα την υφή του μαλλιού στα χέρια μου και ανυπομονούσα να φτάσω σπίτι για να ψάξω, να μάθω, να δω πως θα ξεκινούσα το πρώτο μου κασκόλ! Χωρίς να έχω ρίξει ούτε ένα πόντο στη βελόνα μου, ένιωθα εξαιρετικά περήφανη που τουλάχιστον θα προσπαθούσα να φτιάξω κάτι μόνη μου!!! Η μαγική πόρτα του πλεξίματος μόλις είχε ανοίξει για μένα…!

Hello! I’m Knitting (b)Loomer and I have the great pleasure to welcome you to my cozy home! If someone would have asked me 1,5  years ago, what is my relationship with knitting, I would have definitely answered: “Me? Knitting??? Never!!!” And I meant it! Until one afternoon, as I was walking and  staring storefronts, I came across  a shop with yarn balls, needles and all these unknown (until then)  to me objects. Through the storefront I was strongly flirted by a colorful yarn. It was just perfect! It had all the colors of the rainbow and was making up the mood! I walked in and I was welcomed by a smiling and lovely lady. I confessed that knitting was an unknown world for me but I wanted to try knitting a scarf with the yarn that was flirting me. "It’s not difficult!" she said. "You will definitely do it!" So I bought 2 skeins of yarn and needles No3! That's it! Throughout the bus ride to get back home, I was examining what I had just bought. I read and reread the label on the yarn, without understanding much of what it was written on it and what exactly were meant. I felt the texture of the wool in my hands and could not wait to get home to look, to learn, to see how I would begin knitting my first scarf! Without having cast on the needles, I felt extremely proud that at least I would try to make something on my own! The magic door of knitting had just opened for me...!