We have the absolute basics of Loom Knitting within our YouTube Channel. We talked about before on Loom Knitting for Beginners on What to Buy, now it’s time to experience some patterns that are above the absolute basics. I hope someone will make this afghan and send me photos when it’s finished.There are a handful of YouTube Hosts that can take you beyond the basics of Loom Knitting.
I’m not all that fond of assembling squares into projects, but this photo/instruction analysis has my curiosity piqued. There’s a template (scroll past the templates for square and triangle looms) for a 2″ x 4″ loom and I’ve provided lots of instructions for easy ways to make your own looms (see Topical Guide: Loom Making)-you can even use sewing pins stuck into cardboard for a little loom like this (though you’d be more comfortable with a foam core/foam mat model). I may be wrong, but I think if you want your afghan to look like theirs, you’re going to need a 2″ x 4″ loom (or you could use 2″ squares sewn together). Do those outer borders look like 2″ x 4″ pieces or what? Technically this is perfectly legal because this is a Loomette with bars pattern book. I thought I had this afghan all figured out and then I started drawing these pink lines on the photo. I’m writing this post and preparing diagrams as I go along.
#Afgan loom weaving how to
Here are two options for how to join the B-25 squares into 4-square blocks: The following diagrams allow the weaver to see the patterns more clearly than the 1938 black-and-white photos show. They don’t tell you how many of each or specifically where to put them (or how to join them together).įor all these pattern weaves, they provide written instructions. In addition to B-25 squares, they’ve included some Charleston-specific pattern weaves (B-31, B-32, B-33, and B-34). The 4-square blocks make up the outer frame and main body of the afghan. What they don’t tell you is that all those B-25 squares will be assembled into 4-square blocks. Loomette asks the weaver to use pattern weave B-25 for most of the squares. MAKING THE 4-SQUARE BLOCKS ( dark brown and parchment) I don’t know what method they use to join the squares, but the yellow yarn shows clearly in the photo, so I guess it’s a somewhat decorative joining method. for 100 dark brown squares, you need 800 yards of dark brown yarn. You can calculate yardage amounts by multiplying the number of squares by 8 yards per square, e.g.
You can detect the color difference even in the black-and-white photo. You will also use the B-25 pattern to make 88 parchment colored squares (4 hanks of yarn). The colored cover photo shows that yellow yarn is used to join the middle ( parchment color) blocks-22 blocks made up of four squares-joined-with-parchment-yarn these blocks are then joined to each other with yellow yarn. The instructions should be the same as 9R in the B-31 pattern, in reverse.) They’ve given you 33 stitches to perform in a 31-stitch row. (There’s a mistake in the written instructions for weave B-32, 8R. has written instructions for each of these pattern weaves. The photo caption doesn’t say how many of each you can count them using the photo. (They say you’ll need 6 hanks of their suggested yarn to make these 100 dark brown squares.) It’s my guess that the 80 patterned squares are sewn into 4-square blocks the 20 plain weave squares will form the outer border of the afghan.įor the next section in toward the middle and using beigeyarn (3.5 hanks), you’ll make 68 squares and will use 4 different patterns (B-31, B-32, B-33, and B-34). The instructions for The Charleston afghan (pictured on the cover and on page 27 additional instructions on page 35) say to use dark brown yarn to make 80 squares using the B-25 pattern and 20 squares using plain weave.
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