Hankering for Yarn

How to weave on a spoolknitter

by Noreen on February 17th, 2007

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The spoolie in the tutorial is an 11 peg Synchronicity Sisters Spoolknitter, that my husband, Jim and I make.

There are several ways of weaving circles on spoolknitters.

In this tutorial, I’ll show you a classic basketry style rib stitch circle.

This makes a great circle motif that can be used as an embellishment on it’s own, or can be used in freeforming techniques (weaving, crochet or knitting). It can also be the starting point for a small pouch, or used as a button cover.
People have used basketry techniques since the beginning of time, so the technique that I am showing you is timeless.I am using Caron Felt It in 07 Evening Mist. That means that the circle (and pouch, if you are making it after weaving the circle) can be felted afterwards.
Tie the yarn around 2 pegs, that are opposite each other. Leave a tail that is at least 9 inches (23 cm) long.

Take the yarn past the next peg, across to the next peg and back.

Repeat this process until all but the last peg have yarn on them. Take the yarn around the last peg and then to the center.

Cut the yarn end about 30 inches (75) from the center of the circle.

Thread the end into a darning needle, take it down through the center of the spoolie right across from the last peg, and up again,

go under 2 ‘petals’, pull up - working over the next petal beside the first stitched petal, insert needle under 2 again,

all the way around. Continue, adding new lengths of yarn if necessary, until the petals are all covered.

• NOTE:(If you want to weave on the top of spoolies, then choose a Synchronicity Sister or other spoolie with an uneven number of pegs so the weaving will always progress in a continuous spiral. If you don’t want to weave on your spoolie, an even number of pegs is a fine choice)

To join new lengths of yarn, lay the new yarn on the spoolie and take it’s end out along one of the petals.

Weave over it for a few stitches with the old yarn, then, take the old, too short strand out along one of the other petals, thread up the new strand and continue weaving. You’ll weave over both yarn ends and snip anything that shows later.

Continue until the petals are all covered.
You can lift the circle off the loom at this point to use it as a motif, but, the petals must be secured.

So, knit at least 1 or 2 rounds by taking the yarn past the pegs, and lifting all loops over the passed yarn:

Then cast off by knitting and lifting one stitch at a time, placing it on the next peg.

See: cast off

in the instructions for how to spoolknit a dress for a wooden doll.

You can either continue spooling to make a great little pouch for your lip gloss, or longer, for a favorite pen, or longer still - for your pennywhistle!

Just weave the base, then knit the sides :D for as long as you want the pouch to be.
Here it is as a doll hat:

Happy weaving, and happy spooling!

hugs all round,

Noreen

www.crone-findlay.com

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