Ms. Deb's Loom Knitting Journey

For those who think, knitting, crocheting or loom knitting are the same, you would be wrong. Which I quickly learned, the first time I stepped in to a Knit Shop approximately 12 years ago. There were large tables and comfortable chairs for you to sit down and knit, the walls were filled with cubbies full of colorful yarn. I went to take a closer look at the yarn I found some of it to be very soft and some to have lots of texture. The last wall was full of knitting needles and other knitting accessories. I noticed that the yarn was in some type of a twisted formation that I hadn’t seen in the stores I shopped in. I later watched as the associated untwisted the yarn my friend purchased and put it on a wooden object to spin the yarn into a ball. I learn a lot that day, a ball of yarn was called a skein, you needed a swifter to roll the yarn in a ball. A large percent of the yarn comes from an animal like a sheep, alpaca, or llama. The price point of a skein of yarn was much more than I had expected. But it was when I asked the associate if they had knitting looms, is when I realized this was definitely not at JoAnn Fabrics or Hobby Lobby. Her reply was, we don’t carry anything like that here, as I was pulling a knitting loom from my project bag.

It was a few years after that incident, before I went to another Knit Shop. The same Friend convinced me to go to the grand opening of a new Knit Shop in our area a year later. We were the first two customers, the owner was very nice, and the atmosphere was welcoming. I went there often with and without my Friend, I’d find a comfortable chair sit and loom knit a couple of hours. Unfortunately, the owners Husband got very ill, and she closed her shop. My friend and I was amongst her last customers. So, this same Friend come to visit me while she’s on vacation. So, here we are many years later in a new city and state my Friend finds a Knit Shop down the street from my place. The owners at this local Knit shop were very nice and informative. They were able to track down the yarn my friend needed for her sweater and much more. There was a table full of ladies working on various knitting projects, they were all very friendly and talkative. I spoke with the two owners and mentioned that I teach Loom knitting class to Seniors and gave her my card. When my friend went back to the store a few days later, to pick up her sweater’s quantity of yarn. The owner gave her a bag of yarn she said, it was a donation for my loom knitting class. My Friend returned home all excited, that she got her yarn and was able to knit her sweater.

It’s gr8 to have crafty Friends to share my Loom Knitting Journey.