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If you are buying a loom... GET THIS BOOK! | Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects | Isela Phelps

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	• Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom, with over 30 Fun Projects Isela Phelps St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 35 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

For Beginners of Loom Knitting

I recently purchased knitting looms at a shop near my home and realized that the booklet that came with it did not provide enough information. The Loom Knitting Primer: A Beginner's Guide to Knitting on a Loom provides details that I had been searching for. These details include: the descriptions of knitting boards as well as circular looms, a glossary, as well as tips on buying a loom. This Primer also has directions for 30 projects that include a simple hat, a garter stitch hat, I-cord hot pad, purple trendy scarf, etc. I would say that for anyone beginning to learn how to knit with a loom, this Primer is a good start.

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Looming techniques and patterns

This book is great. Isela has put together many techniques new to the looming community. She shows you how to loom knit and make it look as if you have needle knitted the item and why it turns out that way. I had never known before this how to do a true knit or purl stitch on a loom.How can you do cables? How do you increases or decreases?Socks? All of this is in there. Only the e-wrap was ever explained before. She gives you all the tools you need here to translate regular knitting patterns and gives looming terminology. If you want to learn to knit by using these looms or other looms on the market pick up this book.
This looming craft is knitting in the round but it can also be used to make flat panals for making other items. She explains that with pictures in this book. This also was her first publication. Book number 2 is about to be released with even more patterns.(May 2008) It is a primer that gets your imagination flowing, she has spawned a whole group of non knitters to try to knit and do it successfully and some are even going further with chart reading and becoming pattern writers themselves. Caution: looming is addictive once you learn these basics.The sky is the limit.I highly recommend this book to new and old loomers out there.

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If you are buying a loom... GET THIS BOOK!

This book has a lot of great proyects on diferent types of looms.
You really have to get it! :)
From shals and scarfs, to hats and socks to wear on everyday. :)

Great book!

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excellent book for beginners!

I only had made hats and scarves on my knifty knitter until I bought this book. This book is very comprehensive. It gives you a little history of loom knitting, the different types of looms, different types and gauges of yarn, and gives you a list of tools you need and tells specifically what they are used for. It has instructions for starting and finishing your knitted projects, picking up a dropped stitch, joining flat panels together, adding stitches, decreasing stitches, and pretty much anything else you might need to know to create things on your looms. I love the variety of patterns! And all the instructions are very easy to follow... with lots of pictures and drawn diagrams. I recommend this book to anyone who is stuck just making scarves and hats on their knifty knitter!

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Good for the "next steps"

I watched someone on a loom at my local craft store and I picked up a set for myself. I made a few scarves and hats. When you're ready to make the next step into how to use your looms to make things a little more complicated but not overwhelming, this is a good book for that step. I'm very pleased with this book. I would recommend it to a friend.

Knitting looms are flying off the shelves in craft stores because loom- knitting is such an easy craft to take up?it can be learned by both children and adults alike in just a few hours. If you have fond memories of spool knitting (a round wooden spool with a central hole surrounded by four small nails) when you were a child then you know how easy it was to create yards and yards of knitted tubes. Today?s loom are just as easy and fun to use!

Widely available in craft stores, looms come in a variety of shapes and sizes, some are circular, others rectangular, some tiny and some large. The size of the loom dictates the size of the knitted piece although you can easily join smaller panels together to make larger items.

This book is designed as a hands on project resource as well as an essential reference for the growing band of loom knitters. Clear step by step illustrations throughout show how to cast-on, bind-off and knit a wide range of stitches on both round looms and knitting boards. Practice projects are provided for each technique, and there are more then 30 attractive patterns to get the crafter started.
-         the first book to provide patterns for an increasingly popular tool
-         comprehensive techniques and information provide the essential back-up manual to supplement the minimal instructions that come with the looms
-         over 30 quick and easy patterns for sweaters and accessories
-         written by an expert in the field
An Alternate Selection of the Crafter?s Choice Book Club

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