More Detailed Description of 15 inch loom

There are two long maple sections that have thirty-five wooden pegs on each section. The pegs have caps on top to keep the yarn from sliding off. There are grooves on the pegs to make it easier to remove the yarn from the pegs. On the inside of the pegged board there is a slot that runs the length of the board. There are two maple end pieces that can be placed in the slots, they slide like runners. The end pieces have five pegs on top of each one. Making a total of sixty pegs altogether.

Two bolts go through the two long pegged boards. When you tighten them, the two end pieces are secured into the position you want them in. If you put them close together you can knit on twelve pegs. That would produce a circle about four and a half inches in circumference. Imagine taking a three by five card and rolling it into a tube- about that size of a circle. If you move the end pieces one position farther apart, you would be knitting on 14 pegs. Add two pegs (one on each side of the board) for each position that you move it. The largest position is sixty pegs, which makes a tube of about twenty-four inches around. That's enough pegs to knit a large hat.

The pegs are small and closer together, so your knitting won't have big, lacey holes, like you get with some looms.

You can also buy extra end pieces. If you use them in two sets, you can knit two smaller things at once. I thought it would be good for knitting two slippers at the same time. You could do the same step on each slipper before you went on to the next step.

If you remove the end pieces, you can tighten the bolts and use the loom as a knitting board. There are nuts on the bolts that keep the two pegged boards separated, so that you can adjust the distance between the knitting boards.  Positioning the boards close together produces a thick, heavy fabric. If you move the boards farther apart, the knitting board makes a really nice, soft fluffy knit. The main difference between a knitting board and a circular loom is that instead of wrapping adjacent pegs, round and round in a circle, you wrap the pegs back and forth across the width of the board, going from one end to the other. Then turn around and wrap in the other direction. Then you pull the bottom loop over the top loop and remove it from the peg, just like in circular looms. You end up with a different pattern of knitting, depending on how you wrap the pegs. There are lots of different wrapping patterns.