Christmas Stocking

By: Sarah E. Inserra

I was inspired by the love of Christmas stockings, oh and my mom asked me to create a pattern to match the original “family” stockings for the new members (spouses).

Materials:

Knitting Loom:

I used a Small gauge ADR using 48 pegs.

Yarn: about half a skein Red Heart Worsted Wright yarn was used in sample for the main color of stocking and a bit of white for the accents.

Notions:

Yarn Needle for working in ends, row counter

Abbreviations: (see below)

K- Knit Stitch (e-wrap)

P- Purl Stitch

CO- Cast on

MC- Main Color

W&T- Wrap and Turn

Techniques:

W&T (Wrap and Turn)- wrap; take the loop off the specified peg and with the working yarn, wrap the peg and put the loop back on the same peg.  This peg will now have 2 loops on it, leave the two loops.  Turn: Knit back in the opposite direction.  (There is a video that explains the method available if you search “short row heel loom”)

Pattern Notes:

Need to know how to increase and decrease a heel, E-Wrap, and Purl.

Instructions:

1. CO 48 pegs using your favorite Method
2. Using K2 P2 all the way around do 12 rows in the Main Color
3. Switch to Second Color, K2 P2 all the way around for 12 rows
4. Switch back to MC, Knit 45 rows
5. Use short Row Heel Method (Video Available Online)
6. Decrease Heel using 25 Pegs
1. Row 1: K from peg 1- 24, W&T peg 25
2. Row 2: K from peg 24- 2, W&T peg 1
3. Row 3: K from peg 2- 23, W&T peg 24
4. Row 4: K from peg 23- 3, W&T peg 2
5. Row 5: K from peg 3- 22, W&T peg 23
6. Row 6: K from peg 22- 4, W&T peg 3
7. Row 7: K from peg 4- 21, W&T peg 22
8. Row 8: K from peg 21- 5, W&T peg 4
9. Row 9: K from peg 5- 20, W&T peg 21
10. Row 5: K from peg 20- 6, W&T peg 5
11. Row 5: K from peg 6- 19, W&T peg 20
12. Row 5: K from peg 19-7, W&T peg 6
13. Row 5: K from peg 7- 18, W&T peg 19
14. Row 5: K from peg 18- 8, W&T peg 7
15. Row 5: K from peg 8- 17, W&T peg 18
16. Row 5: K from peg 17- 9, W&T peg 8
17. Row 5: K from peg 9- 16, W&T peg 17
18. Row 5: K from peg 16- 10, W&T peg 9

1. Increase Heel
1. Row 1: K from peg 10- 17
2. Row 2: K from peg 17-9
3. Row 3: K from peg 9- 18
4. Row 4: K from peg 18- 8
5. Row 5: K from peg 8- 19
6. Row 6: K from peg 19- 7
7. Row 7: K from peg 7- 20
8. Row 8: K from peg 20- 6
9. Row 9: K from peg 6- 21
10. Row 5: K from peg 21- 5
11. Row 5: K from peg 5- 22
12. Row 5: K from peg 22- 4
13. Row 5: K from peg 4- 23
14. Row 5: K from peg 23- 3
15. Row 5: K from peg 3- 24
16. Row 5: K from peg 24- 2
17. Row 5: K from peg 2- 25
18. Row 5: K from peg 25- 1

1. Knit From Peg 1- 48 so that the working yarn is where it should be on your last peg
2. Continue Knitting in the round for 26 rows
3. Switch to Second Color, Knit 12 rows
4. Bind Off Using the Gather Method
5. Create an i- cord or braid some yarn and attach to the top edge of stocking for hanging.

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My signature confirms my agreement to the statements hereby written and I give full permission to Markman Looms to publish my pattern for free.  Markman Looms cannot sell this pattern. Sarah E. Inserra 5.15.08

Cary Caterpillar Rattle

By: Sarah E. Inserra

I was inspired by all the women on the Nashotah House Seminary Campus that are pregnant (6 right now).

Materials

Knitting Loom:  Small gauge ADR with at least 20 pegs.

Yarn: small amounts of worsted weight yarn (5 colors).

Notions:

Crochet hook

Yarn needle

5 colors of yarn

Scraps of yarn for face

Stuffing

Pattern:

Head

1. Cast on 20 pegs- (method doesn’t matter- you will be gathering this section at the end)
2. e-wrap and knit over 11 rows

Body

3.  Move spacer over one space

4.  Move loops from outside peg one peg

over-  knit off

5.  Move the loops from those pegs one peg

over again- leaving corner pegs open

      - you will now be working on 16 pegs

6.  Switch color

7.  e-wrap the 16 pegs- 2 pegs will have 3

      loops- knit the bottom 2 over top as one

8.  Knit  11 rows again

9.  Repeat steps 6, 7 & 8 for all 3 body

segments

Tail

10.  Move spacer over one space

11.  Move loops from outside peg one peg

over- knit off

12.  Move the loops from those pegs one peg over again- leaving corner pegs open

      - you will now be working on 12 pegs

13.  Switch color

14.  e-wrap the 12 pegs- 2 pegs will have 3

       loops- knit the bottom 2 over top as one

15.  Knit 7 rows

16.  Use the gather method and close off tail

Finish:

1. Stuff the first section
2. Sew segment closed
3. Continue the same steps for all 3 body segments

Head

1.  I purchased all plastic cat toy balls from Wal-Mart- no metal ball so it can be washed
2. I placed the ball in the head segment and surrounded it with stuffing
3. Close off the segment by picking up the loops with the yarn needle and gather closed

Face

1. Embroider face on front- any way you would like
2. make antenna by attaching the yarn to the head with a knot and using crochet hook, chain about 10 stitches
3. repeat for other antenna.

Recycled Plastic Tote

by, Katherine Heck

What inspired you to create the pattern? I was buried in plastic bags

Materials: plastic grocery bags (I used close to 100 bags)

Knitting Loom: _regular guage__Loom __with at least 27_pegs.  Markman farm regular guage ADR_knitting loom was used in sample.  

Yarn: Plastic shopping bags_ (see instr. For prep) # yards:  about 100 bags_ yarn weight: Regular old grocery bags  were used in sample.

Gauge: insert the number of stitches and rows worked on 4 x 4 inches swatch: about 8 stitches/15 rows on my sample, but guage is not very important on this project.

Notions: waste yarn, crochet hook, stitch holder (optional)

Abbreviations: (see below)

BO

CO

RS

Pattern Notes:

This bag is knit on the wrong side.  It is all done with e-wraps, so the purl will show on reverse.  The handles are knit in one piece with the main section and the loose end attached much like You do the seam on a toe up sock.  Sides are done sepaerately and sewn on using a crochet hook to pull the loops through.

Instructions:

Bag prep:

 Lay a bag out smoothing out the wrinkles a bit.  Fold in it half vertically, then in half again. Cut the bottom 1-2 inches off and discard (This removes the bottom seam).  Cut horizontally into strips about 1 ½ inch wide. I usually get about 5 useable strips (They are actually loops).  None of these needs to be exact.

      Now join you loops together.  If you ever made chains out of rubber bands as a child this works the same way. Take the end of one loop and poke it through another loop.  Then fold it back over and pull it through its own loop.  It’s much simpler than it sounds.  You can make a big ball of this yarn up ahead of time and add to it as you need more.

Knitting:

CO pegs 2-13 with the waste yarn.  E-wrap a couple rows.

First Handle:

1.    Put the starting loop of your plastic yarn on peg 2, then E-wrap 3-13 and knit over.

2.    Handle Decrease section begins. Move loops on pegs 2 to 3 and 13 to 12.  treating these double loops as one,  E-wrap 3-12

3.    Move loop 3 to 4 and 12 to 11.  e-wrap 11-4.

4.    Move loop 4 to 5 and 11 to 10.  E-wrap 5-10.

5.    Move 5 to 6 and 10 to 9.  E-wrap 9-6.

6.    handle: E-wrap pegs 6-9 for 38 rows.

7.    Increase section begins: E-wrap pegs 5-10 knitting over all pegs with 2 loops.

8.    E-wrap 11-4

9.    E-wrap 3-12

10. E-wrap 13-2

11. Find the first row of ewraps using the plastic loops.  Use the waste yarn to help.  Place those loops on pegs 15-26.  E-wrap 1-27 and knit over all pegs with 2 loops.  You have now finished your first handle.

Main body:

     1. E-wrap 1-27about 30 inches.  That was 96 stitches for me.

     2. BO peg 1.  E-wrap 2-13.

Second Handle:

1. Repeat Instructions # 2 to 10.
2. Take loops from pegs 2-13 and place them on pegs 15-26 (a stitch holder or even crochet hook will be helpful).  Knit over pegs 2-15.  Second handle is finished.
3. BO pegs 14-27.

Side Panel( make 2):

1. Cast on 12 pegs
2. E-wrap 45 rows
3. Bo all pegs

Finishing:

1. Remove waste yarn from the first handle.
2. With the Ewrap sides together stitch the sides to the main body.  The main section forms front bottom and sides.  I suggest sewing the bottoms first, lining up the centers and easing your way around the corners and up to the top edges.  Use more bag loops for your thread.  Unless you have a very large eyed needle(and I didn’t) you can use a crochet hook to pull the loops through the stitches.
3. Weave in the ends of your sewing loops.

Border Me This, Lacy Spring Scarf,
by Jeni

 Any loom with 20 pegs at regular gauge

Example used Bernat Softee Chunky yarn in Denim Heather, 2 skeins (only some of the second is used), or any #5 bulky yarn

Cast on 20 pegs using the e-wrap method.  (left to right)

R1—Mock crochet stitch.  As you go along the row, pull the bottom stitches as you go over the pegs to make the cast on row tight.  Excess yarn can be pulled at the end of the row by the yarn tail.  (will be right to left)

R2-4—Mock crochet stitch all pegs.

R5—Wrap peg 20 and 19 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 20, 19, and 18 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 19, 18, and 17 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 16-5 twice (three loops on each peg).  On those pegs, lift bottom loop over the other two.  Then lift the middle loop over the top loop.  Wrap pegs 4-2 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 3-1 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 2 and 1 once.  KO.  Wrap peg 1 once, KO.

R6—Wrap pegs 1-2 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 1, 2, and 3 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 2, 3, an 4 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 5-16 twice (three loops on each peg).  On those pegs, life bottom loop over the other two.  Then lift the middle loop over the top loop.  Wrap pegs 17, 18, and 19 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 18, 19, and 20 once.  KO.  Wrap pegs 19 and 20 once.  KO.  Wrap peg 20 once.  KO. 

Repeat rows 5 and 6 until desired length (example had 142 rows total of the repeated row). 

Repeat row 2 for 4 rows. 

Cast off:  cut tail 12” long.  Thread plastic needle, and go through each loop twice when removing from the loom.  Weave in loose ends.

You may block the scarf to keep the edges from folding in. 

Satin Baby Blanket
by, Amanda Hommel

What inspired you to create the pattern? I was invited to a Baby Shower and wanted to give a personal gift. I looked over the Loom Knitting Primer and modified the pattern to fit the nursery colors, what I had, and little personal touched.

Materials

Knitting Loom:  Yellow, Large Gauge KK Loom 40 number of pegs.

Yellow Kiffty Knitter knitting loom was used in sample.

Yarn: 500 # yards, Chunky yarn weight

Bernat Softee Chunky Ombres Yarn Harmony was used in sample.

Gauge: insert the number of stitches and rows worked on 4 x 4 inches swatch.

Notions: I bought a giant 5 lb bag of this from JoAnns when it was on sale. Then rolled it into two balls. Then I knitted with two strands at the same time – one because we’re heading into summer, I wanted this blanket to be extra cushy for Baby to roll around on and second for when winter hit, it would also be extra warm for baby. I picked up a roll of brown satin ribbon and stranded it though on the third row in – alternating every 2 stitches, to every 3 stitches.

Abbreviations: (see below)

Pattern Notes:

This pattern is very easy. You only need to know how to turn on a peg (slip stitch) and how to do a twisted stitch and purl stitch.

Notions: I bought a giant 5 lb bag of this from JoAnns when it was on sale. Then rolled it into two balls. Then I knitted with two strands at the same time – one because we’re heading into summer, I wanted this blanket to be extra cushy for Baby to roll around on and second for when winter hit, it would also be extra warm for baby. I picked up a roll of brown satin ribbon and stranded it though on the third row in – alternating every 2 stitches, to every 3 stitches.

Abbreviations: (see below)

Pattern Notes:

This pattern is very easy. You only need to know how to turn on a peg (slip stitch) and how to do a twisted stitch and purl stitch.

Notions: I bought a giant 5 lb bag of this from JoAnns when it was on sale. Then rolled it into two balls. Then I knitted with two strands at the same time – one because we’re heading into summer, I wanted this blanket to be extra cushy for Baby to roll around on and second for when winter hit, it would also be extra warm for baby. I picked up a roll of brown satin ribbon and stranded it though on the third row in – alternating every 2 stitches, to every 3 stitches.

Abbreviations: (see below)

Pattern Notes:

This pattern is very easy. You only need to know how to turn on a peg (slip stitch) and how to do a twisted stitch and purl stitch.

Notions: I bought a giant 5 lb bag of this from JoAnns when it was on sale. Then rolled it into two balls. Then I knitted with two strands at the same time – one because we’re heading into summer, I wanted this blanket to be extra cushy for Baby to roll around on and second for when winter hit, it would also be extra warm for baby. I picked up a roll of brown satin ribbon and stranded it though on the third row in – alternating every 2 stitches, to every 3 stitches.

Abbreviations: (see below)

Pattern Notes:

This pattern is very easy. You only need to know how to turn on a peg (slip stitch) and how to do a twisted stitch and purl stitch.

Notions: I bought a giant 5 lb bag of this from JoAnns when it was on sale. Then rolled it into two balls. Then I knitted with two strands at the same time – one because we’re heading into summer, I wanted this blanket to be extra cushy for Baby to roll around on and second for when winter hit, it would also be extra warm for baby. I picked up a roll of brown satin ribbon and stranded it though on the third row in – alternating every 2 stitches, to every 3 stitches.

Abbreviations: (see below)

Pattern Notes:

This pattern is very easy. You only need to know how to turn on a peg (slip stitch) and how to do a twisted stitch and purl stitch.

Notions: I bought a giant 5 lb bag of this from JoAnns when it was on sale. Then rolled it into two balls. Then I knitted with two strands at the same time – one because we’re heading into summer, I wanted this blanket to be extra cushy for Baby to roll around on and second for when winter hit, it would also be extra warm for baby. I picked up a roll of brown satin ribbon and stranded it though on the third row in – alternating every 2 stitches, to every 3 stitches.

Abbreviations: (see below)

Pattern Notes:

This pattern is very easy. You only need to know how to turn on a peg (slip stitch) and how to do a twisted stitch and purl stitch.

Notions: I bought a giant 5 lb bag of this from JoAnns when it was on sale. Then rolled it into two balls. Then I knitted with two strands at the same time – one because we’re heading into summer, I wanted this blanket to be extra cushy for Baby to roll around on and second for when winter hit, it would also be extra warm for baby. I picked up a roll of brown satin ribbon and stranded it though on the third row in – alternating every 2 stitches, to every 3 stitches.

Abbreviations: (see below)

Pattern Notes:

This pattern is very easy. You only need to know how to turn on a peg (slip stitch) and how to do a twisted stitch and purl stitch.

Instructions: