OT and not: looking for pocket loom

Ginger, what is spool knitting ?? Just curious

Dee in Oz

Spool knitting is done on a device that looks like a large sewing thread spool. There can be 3/4/5 or 8 "pegs" on one end, depending on the size of the unit. You use yarn and go 'round and 'round, "knitting off" by pulling a bottom yarn piece up and over the top yarn and over pegs. Hard to explain. I have a large wooden one that take 2 strands of worsted weight yarn. A long coil is created that you can sew together into placemats or trivets. Very portable and since it is woodedn, doesn't alarm the security at work ;)

G> Ginger, what is spool knitting ??

Thanks Ginger. I know exactly what you mean. I have only heard them called a 'Knitting Nancy'. About 6 years ago a class I was working with at school made them using empty toilet rolls and icecrean sticks. I came home and showed my kids how to made one and DS still uses his every winter. I have only ever seen them with 4 'pegs'.

Dee in Oz

Here its French Kniting. Used to do it on an old wooden thread bobbin with 4 nails hammered on top.

I never actually made anything apart from the long coils.

I think I've got a modern equivalent among my braiding things.

Thats what I used as a child too Sally, but the wooden reels are a bit hard to come by now.

Dee in Oz

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I do have one made from an old spool. that is one I used as a kid. I remember making a long coil of pink, and declaring it would be a fine lead rope for the Clydesdale horse at the ranch down the road ;)) Everytime I was at the end I had to go to the neighbor to have her finish it. I don't know who taught me to do it, my mother wasn't handy like that.

My current favorite is one from Herrschners, made of maple, with a maple turning stick. Fits my hand very well.

Knitting Nancy, French knitting, spool knitting, Nobby Knitter, guess it's all the same thing.

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Add another name, all I knew them as was a Knitting Nellie.

Now you can get great big ones from the shops. Our kiri got one thinking it might be a bit faster than crochet for some things, and I had to show her how to use it since she couldn't make heads nor tails of the instructions. I have sort of inherited it now.

When I was very small (must have been about 4), great grampa made me one, and great gramma kept me in rug yarn to use on it. Then after I had made enough length to circle Jupiter around six or eight times, grampa went up to the attic and fetched down the rug loom. Gramma warped it with carpet twine and showed me how to weave a rag rug with a big old crochet hook. Only we used my Nellie strings instead of rags.

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Howdy!

A newer version of this is the Knifty Knitter: which I have only played with once since the (grown) kidsgave it to me for Christmas last year. Figured it out,just didn't have enough interest to stay with it (yet).However, I did get more yarn at Michael's Crafts today,for what has grown into an Eyelash Afghan. Still prefer quilting....

R/Sandy