I have a real bad case of knitting fever! Thanks to BF, I took a look to see if there was looms for regular weight yarn, not just chunky. I discovered that there are. . .adjustable ones. They can handle anything from fingerling yarn to super chunky yarn! It depends not very much how many needles there are, but the distance between the two rows of needles. And then I found out that you can do more then one stitch! You can do Fair Isle knitting on these, Cable stitches, and you can decrease and increase. In other words, while regular knitting might be a bit more versatile in number of possible stitches, the knitting loom or machine can do an awful lot!
And then I stupidly went to to Barnes & Nobel after work and looked to see if they had any books on it. Yes, they did. I am now the proud possessor of Knitting Board Basics by Pat and Kim Novak (mother and daughter team). Which cost me $28 for a machine I don't possess yet! What really sucks is that I went online to Amazon this morning and discovered I could have gotten it for $16 plus shipping from them. On the other hand, I wouldn't have it in my hot little hands right now! I would have to wait for it to show up in the mail, and I really don't think I could have handled that! Lust! Lust!
The loom I have now, can do some of these things, but only with chunky yarn. I want an adjustable loom/machine so I can use the cheap yarn. Yes, I have been thinking about this for a while, not the loom, but this. Since I'm stuck at home with just a part time job, why don't I knit up a bunch of scarves and sell them at flea markets, swap meets and festivals around here after my unemployment runs out (I spend around two hours a day looking for a job. There just isn't that many jobs available where I live. I have all this time to do it in. Instead of wasting my time looking at crap online, knit!
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