Was just wondering if you ever got a Knitting Loom to make your preemie hats? At a yard sale I got a Singer Children's Knitting Machine to make hats for a pre-teen, just guessing, but I haven't tried it out. I didn't see any of the looms, though. Barbara in FL
Not a happy ending to that quest, Barbara. I waited 6 weeks for a loom to be made for me. It is a little bit too big - meaning it is barely smaller than the ordinary blue loom available everywhere. The pins on it are so close together that it makes a heavy weave and just takes forever to get around. I've played with it 3 or 4 times during late night movies but I don't think we are going to be friends. The results are going to be too large, too heavy and entirely too time-consuming. I do much better with a crochet hook and a gentle tension. 'They say' you pick your battles. I think I lost that one. Polly
On this Singer you turn a handle and could probably make a hat within an hr. It has 20 hooks. I had thought of making the scarf's and other projects since the hat wouldn't fit me. On e-bay these sell for $24.99, but all I need to do now is get a project book. And then I think that last year at Wal-Mart I got the knit caps for $2 (Christmas gifts) and I can't buy the yarn for that! Barbara in 75 degree FL
I think that if you got someone who is handy (?) to cut a circle/ring out of thin plywood/something (?) that is close to the size you need and bang in small nails (fewer pegs than the blue or new loom that you have).
These things do work the same way that the four nails in the top of a wooden spool used to do, don't they? Remember our Mothers or Grandmothers giving them to us to keep us busy?
Just an idea!
Bonnie, in icy Middletown, VA
Nope, that didn't work. If anybody has a 72 pound premature baby, I have a bonnet ready. Polly
Noooo, Jeanne, it was worth a try. I was kind of watching a late movie and needed something to be doing. I'd thought skipping some of the pins should make it looser (and it does) but the circumference is still several inches too big. I always look forward to your posts; don't let my already failed project get you down. I don't need to succeed every time. Now and then is nice though. Polly
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