#loom knit

[sewickedthread]

Made a cross body phone bag for an elderly friend who lives alone.

Wove body panels & flap on small frame loom, lined flap with felt (for stability), lucet braid trim & button loop on flap, lined with layered felt & minky (minky so phone slips out easily & layers for padding), & loom knit icord strap (with defunct charge cord inside for stability).

[midnight-looms]

I'm working on my loom knit packer pattern file to upload to ko-fi (for free, of course!)

I'm actually really proud to say that this is likely the first loom knit packer pattern that's at least been published to the Internet as far as me and others who have looked can tell (and trust me I looked hard)

These are 3 different sizes. The middle one is uncircumcised and was my first successful attempt at doing it. Hence why it looks a bit rough lol

The blue one was my first one which is wayyyy too long for my liking. I like the length of the tan one the most personally.

The pattern is pretty customizable when it comes to length of both parts of the packer.

I'm excited to share it with y'all when I have it uploaded!

[dgcakes]

Just finished my second of these beautiful big boys on my knitting loom!

Pattern from Huge and Huggable MochiMochi by Anna Hrachovec

Adapted for knitting loom by me

Yarns are Sweet Roll Bold Super bulky in Summertime and Serenity Chunky in Salmon both by Premier Yarns

[m0rb1dch1ld]

In. LOVE. With this! I can’t wait to wear it once it cools down more!! I used tuteate‘s super braided cowl tutorial to help make this! If you guys do loom knit and haven’t checked them out yet, please do so! They’ve got some amazing tutorials that are easy to follow along!

I am tempted to make it in a different color. 😩

Enjoy!!

[castleofshit]

Work project done after a few months

Still need to block the scarf ofc >:P

[hypnotichysterialooming]

[enuimakesstuff]

Loom knit star.

It's basically 5 time a sock heel, using 8 pegs and german short rows. Two additional rows on the shortest length (2 legs) to make it more pointy. I think I did the decreases right but I'm not sure I did the increases right.

[hostileladybug]

I've loom knitted a few cardigans and wearables recently and someone asked how much I'd sell one for... I ducked the question cuz idfk.

I didn't time myself while making the thing.

99% of my yarn is second hand so it's a lot of partial skeins and/or yarn without labels so I have no clue how many yards went into it.

So what to do?

I guess I'll dig out the few full skeins I do have, with labels(wooo).

I guess I'll use the stop watch function on my phone every time I pick up my loom. (yay.)

Maybe then I'll have an estimate for the next person that asks for prices. 🤷

I imagine it'll be an obnoxious price. At this point I'm estimating it'll be about 50 hours to complete.

And the cost of yarn is a constantly adjusting variable.

I use thrifted, basic bitch, dead granny's estate sale yarn. I'm not picky cuz I can't afford to be.

But jo schmo ordering a custom cardigan might want pure alpaca wool. Idk how expensive that is.

See, an adjustable variable. An annoying adjustable variable.

On top of this tracking and planning to figure out pricing...it now feels like a chore.

I've started a cardigan and the stop watch is making me nervous. The yarn I'm using is a DK weight but I usually use worsted weight; is that going to fuck up the yard count?

Man, this sucks the fun outta it.

*sigh* I'm keeping notes on my phone.

Maybe I can do it lil by lil...

And just bounce to a project that feels more fun.

If anyone has advice on this stuff, let me know. I'm a novice with this side of fiber works. The sad business side. I just wanna make stuff.