Free Patterns, Tutorials and Project Ideas
If you’re like me, you used to do this about a million years ago when you were a kid. But, loom knitting is all grown up!
On the Alexe’s Creations blog, check out the cool items she’s knitted and crocheted using this method. If your fingers just won’t let you knit or crochet anymore, this is definitely your out! Check out her blog HERE
I guess I must have had this pattern on my mind, because I had chosen this log cabin blanket recipe to write about, promptly forgot about it and a couple of weeks later started knitting a log cabin blanket using all my pink yarn.
It might stay pink if it makes it to baby blanket sized, or I might add in some pastel green and blue, too, to make a bigger blanket. We’ll see. I’m also holding several strands of yarn together to make a kind of bulky yarn, which means it’s deeply satisfying how much yarn is used even as the project is still relatively small.
In Kristen Finlay’s version, DK weight yarn scraps (or fingering/sock yarn held double) are used to make a simple scrappy log cabin blanket that’s lighter weight than my version. Log cabin is a great technique for knitters of any skill level because it’s worked in garter stitch. The only not completely basic technique you need for log cabin knitting is picking up stitches.
If you’ve never worked a log cabin knitting project before, this is a good introduction, and it is really nice to use all your yarn scraps in one big project you’ll use for years to come.
If you use a lot of DK weight yarn you can keep building on it whenever you finish a project, or if you use more worsted weight you can do the same thing with it, it will just be a little bigger starting out than the pattern calls for. How big it gets is totally up to you.
I have really been enjoying working on my log cabin project, and it’s my current sitting at my desk and need a break knit (do you have one of those or is it just me?).
Ready to start your own log cabin blanket knitting project? You can grab the free pattern from Kristen Finlay on Ravelry.
Need more log cabin inspiration? Check out more log cabin knitting patterns.
[Photo: Kristen Finlay]
I had tried repeatedly to learn needle knitting to no avail & frankly,failed miserably! 🙂 I could embroider anything, painted, pastels, watercolors yada yada … then I tried knitting. HA! My timing really stunk because I was trying to be productive in the midst of a series of lupus flares &hospitalizations following a lengthy stay for perf ‘d ulcers from all the meds & NSAIDS. OH silly me. And of course my hands have had the worst of it for 30yrs. But then I found looms in every shape &size, and patterns to go with ’em. I am *still* excited to play with tweaking patterns&yarns&color–&color-blocking! I’ve been able to make stuff again &be artistic of sorts. What a gift! Definitely checking the blog! Thank U! !*
PS–I hope Mitt-Ney paid plenty, that’s the ONLY way I’ll be able to check in…:P sorry but politics & crafts…eeeuw. I love CG tho and gotta pay the bills. Nevertheless … 🙁
I was 54 years old before I finally learned to knit on needles. The first thing I ever knitted on were the round knitting looms. I do think they helped me to learn to knit with the “sticks”, needles. Don’t give up. Keep trying.