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Alternating between stockinette stitch and reverse stockinette stitch

This is done using a knitting board. Wrap the pegs on the front board to create the stockinette stitch. When you want to use reverse stockinette stitch, switch to wrapping the pegs on the back board. It's that simple. The checkered pattern you see here was made by wrapping six pegs on the front board, then six pegs on the back board, and so forth, switch back and forth between the front and back board every six pegs. See the top view of the knitting board to see the pattern. After knitting six rows, take all of the loops off the pegs, one at a time, and transfer them to the other board. In other words, the loops on the back board get moved to the front board and the loops on the front board get moved to the back board. Use this technique to duplicate many of the fancy stitches used with needle knitting. When they say to knit, wrap a peg on the front board and when they say to purl, wrap a peg on the back board.

 

 

 

Basket Weave

This stitch is done on a single set of pegs. I haven't knitted in the round with this stitch. I think there will be an uneven "seam" where you switch directions. These instructions are for using twelve pegs. You simply expand the number of pegs used to make it wider. Also, these instructions are for using two colors. You will have to work out the changes to make in the instructions if you want to do this stitch with only one color. You will be knitting back and forth, not round and round the loom.

1) Starting at the top (the ends of the yarn will be on pegs 1: yellow yarn and 2: blue yarn)

A) Wrap the yellow yarn as if doing a normal stockinette stitch or "e" wrap on the even pegs. That means wrap the yellow yarn around pegs 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12. Lock the loop on peg 12. That means pull the bottom loop over the top loop to keep the yarn from unwinding itself from the pegs that you just wrapped.

B) Wrap the blue yarn on the odd pegs in the same way That means wrap the blue yarn around pegs 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11, except that you need to wrap it VERY loose so that you will be able to transfer the loops in step #1 D.

C) Pull the bottom loops over the top loops on all the pegs. You will now have 1 loop on each peg.

D) Transfer the loop on peg 3 to peg 1. Peg 1 should now have two loops on it. Next, transfer the loop on peg 5 to peg 3; transfer the loop on peg 7 to peg 5; transfer the loop on peg 9 to peg 7. Peg 9 needs a loop transferred to it, but we can't take it from peg 11. Instead, take the strand of yarn that connects the stitches together on the back side of the board and pull it over peg 9. This is a strand of yarn that runs between the stitches on the back of each peg. Pull a nearby blue strand onto peg 9. Now all of the pegs have 1 loop on them except peg 1 which will have 2 loops.

2) Starting at the bottom: the ends of the yarn will be on pegs 11 (blue yarn) and 12 (yellow yarn)

A) Wrap the blue yarn as if doing a normal stockinette stitch or "e" wrap on the odd pegs. Lock the loop on peg 1.

B) Wrap the yellow yarn on the even pegs in the same way, except that you need to wrap it VERY loose so that you will be able to transfer the loops in step #2 D.

C) Pull the bottom loops over the top loops on all the pegs.

D) Transfer the yellow loop on peg 10 to peg 12. Peg 12 should now have two yellow loops on it. Next, transfer the loop on peg 8 to peg 10; transfer the loop on peg 6 to peg 8; transfer the loop on peg 4 to peg 6. Peg 4 needs a loop transferred to it, but we can't take it from peg 2. Instead, take the strand of yellow yarn that connects the stitches together on the back side of the board and pull it over peg 4. As done above in step #1D. Now all of the pegs have 1 loop on them except peg 12, which will have 2 loops.

3) Repeat steps 1 and 2 for as long as you want.