Loom Knitting

I don't know if you have ever been in the yarn section of your local craft store. But many of them carry this "new" fangled product to make knitting "easier". My younger sister and I went in on a set of round looms a couple years ago (okay, it was more like six or seven) and never really got too far with them. She wasn't into it and I was more into crochet. I also didn't find the instructions too clear. So the looms got lost at the bottom of my wicker chest only to be seen on the rare occasion that I clean the chest out.

On a more recent occasion I purchased the KB Sock Loom. I really love how knitted socks look and all the different patterns you can use. I don't really like how crochet socks look and I'm not to hot at knitting so I turned to the loom. It came with a DVD which I was really excited about. I got home, pulled out an extra skein of yarn, put in the DVD and got to work.

The first complaint I have is one of the pegs was put in the board backwards so the groove the knitting tool slides in to pull the yarn was not there making it extremely difficult to grab the yarn on that peg. I was slow going, I made the tube for the leg and proceeded on to the heel. I got through the heel with only a little trouble. Then the DVD stopped instructing! It just said the foot was just like the leg and the toe was just like the heel. I gave up. I don't like admitting it, but it is true. I was too frustrated to continue, ripped it out and turned the rest of the skein (which was a bright blue) into a floppy eared crocheted bunny rabbit.

Another complaint I have about the sock loom instruction was they didn't really explain sizing. In other words, how many pegs to use to make a sock for a baby, child, or adult. And it would be nice to know the number of pegs to use to make a sock to fit a certain size foot.

I'm sad to have to write a bad review for this product. I really wanted it to work. And maybe someday I'll drag to loom out of the bottom of my wicker chest and try again. But for now I'm going to stick to crocheting and maybe attempt sock knitting in the round.