Comments on: About Kristen Mangus

By: Tony May

Tony May — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 04:19:25 +0000

I am completely blind and attempting to learn to loom knit. I have listened to a lot of your videos and really like the attention to detail you give to every step. The one thing I have not been able to figure out is how to get an appropriate yarn tension. Everything is either too tight to pull the yarn over the peg or so loose that stitches are falling off the pegs. Is there some trick to learning how to make the tension appropriate and consistent?

By: GoodKnit Kisses

GoodKnit Kisses — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:58:09 +0000

In reply to Scott Durbin. Welcome to the wonderful world of loom knitting! If I understand you correctly you want to have just the center section of the afghan in a contrast color, right? Since you work across the rows you will need 2 separate balls of yarn in the main color for each side and one of the contrast color in the middle. You start your row with one ball of the main color. When you reach the color change, twist the main color and contrast colors to lock them between the stitches. To twist the colors pick up the ball of yarn your were just working with and wrap it over the top and around the strand of the new color. Then just continue your row using the contrast color. When you finish your contrast color in the center, twist it around the strand for second ball of your main color to finish the row. Does that make sense?

By: Scott Durbin

Scott Durbin — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:26:21 +0000

I am trying to figure out how to do an afghan with two colors, a main blue color and then a pyramid pattern in the middle in a different color. I can’t figure out which video to watch. I subscribed with my email for your newsletter. I have started with just afghans and changing colors when I run out of one color and go to the next, but now I want to learn how it add the color in the middle of the pattern but I can’t figure it out myself. I would greatly appreciate your help. (BTW I am 69 year old male who just started knitting on a loom in the last three years.) I use a long loom and I built my own afghan size loom with the flexi loom pieces. Ine is for larger yarn and has 144 pegs and the smaller yarn loom has 168 pegs.

By: Laurie Lasala-Tuttle

Laurie Lasala-Tuttle — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 03:15:04 +0000

I’d love to receive your newsletter if you still send one out. Thanks so much!!

By: Arnita

Arnita — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:16:38 +0000

do you have a video that shows how to use a loom for flat knitting?

By: Carla

Carla — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:44:48 +0000

Hi, I have a question regarding your 6 sizes grandmas eyelet blanket. I just started it and I am questioning
Row 13. Are there supposed to be three k2. It says… K2,yo,K2,yo,K2. Purl to last 6 stitches. K6.
That gives one side of the blanket border 8 stitches and the other 6 stitches. Am I not getting something here? I would appreciate hearing from you whether this is correct or not. Thank you so much for your time. Carla Vine. P.s. I have two brothers living in north Texas. One in Denton, one in Oak Point.