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Amazing Loom Knits: Cables, colorwork, lace and other stitches * 30 scarves, hats, mittens, bags and shawls * Plus all the basics
Prepare to be amazed at the stunning knitted accessories you can make on your loom!
Cabled hats, lace wraps, colorwork scarves and leg warmers, textured shawls, cowls, socks, and more! The basic loom knitting techniques are easy to learn, and when you are ready for more, lace, cables, Fair Isle, and beautiful textured designs can all be accomplished on a knitting loom.
This book teaches all of the loom-knitting stitches needed in photo-illustrated steps, so it's easy to follow along and start knitting your first project right away. Once you start, you'll want to knit all 30 patterns in the book!
Cabled hats, lace wraps, colorwork scarves and leg warmers, textured shawls, cowls, socks, and more! The basic loom knitting techniques are easy to learn, and when you are ready for more, lace, cables, Fair Isle, and beautiful textured designs can all be accomplished on a knitting loom.
This book teaches all of the loom-knitting stitches needed in photo-illustrated steps, so it's easy to follow along and start knitting your first project right away. Once you start, you'll want to knit all 30 patterns in the book!
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152 pages, Paperback
First published August 1, 2019
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May 22, 2019
Thanks to Netgalley for allowing me to read early for an honest review.
I'm a traditional knitter and have never tried loom knitting, but this book made me want to give it a try. The color pictures throughout are vibrant and the range of projects look fun to knit. I didn't try out any of the patterns, but they looked well laid out and easy to follow. As a pre-beginner, I appreciated the Loom Knitting Stitches and Techniques section in the back with full color photos. This looks like a great book for anyone with beginner to advanced skills with loom knitting.
I'm a traditional knitter and have never tried loom knitting, but this book made me want to give it a try. The color pictures throughout are vibrant and the range of projects look fun to knit. I didn't try out any of the patterns, but they looked well laid out and easy to follow. As a pre-beginner, I appreciated the Loom Knitting Stitches and Techniques section in the back with full color photos. This looks like a great book for anyone with beginner to advanced skills with loom knitting.
May 10, 2019
Many thanks to NetGalley, Rowman & Littlefield, and Nicole F. Cox for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. My opinions are 100% my own and independent of receiving an advance copy.
I have always wanted to learn how to do loom knitting. For some reason I can’t wrap my brain around it. It seems like it should be easy. You have the pegs, the yarn, the crochet hook to lift the yarn up and around. I can knit and crochet and understand the way the yarn works to create the different stitches, but somehow when it comes to the pegs, I just can’t do it.
I was hoping that this book might do the trick. I thought maybe I might be able to get a handle on loom knitting. This book includes many, if not all, beginner patterns, made up of accessories. I found lots of great hats, wristers, and one really cool wrap that is made from three triangles. The patterns include lots of techniques like brioche, multicolour, argyle, fair isle, lace and others that make them interesting and unique. There are lots of beautiful pictures of the finished products, but be prepared. The patterns don’t include anything other than instructions that assume you know how to use the loom. There is a section in the back that does include instructions for loom knitting with illustrations. It shows casting on, binding off, the stitches themselves and there is another section for any special skills that you might need that are included in the patterns. But I still couldn’t make head nor tails from it. I had hoped that the pattern would include illustration of how to use the loom for that pattern and hopefully I could make my way from the easier ones to the harder ones. No such luck!
I haven’t given up. I think if I watch some You Tube videos of how to do loom knitting, I might get the hang of it. Once I get the hang of how to make a rectangle, or a tube, then I will be able to go back and maybe make some of these lovely patterns. Good luck to those loom knitters out there. I think there is lots to enjoy in this book, but I’m not ready for it. Yet!
I have always wanted to learn how to do loom knitting. For some reason I can’t wrap my brain around it. It seems like it should be easy. You have the pegs, the yarn, the crochet hook to lift the yarn up and around. I can knit and crochet and understand the way the yarn works to create the different stitches, but somehow when it comes to the pegs, I just can’t do it.
I was hoping that this book might do the trick. I thought maybe I might be able to get a handle on loom knitting. This book includes many, if not all, beginner patterns, made up of accessories. I found lots of great hats, wristers, and one really cool wrap that is made from three triangles. The patterns include lots of techniques like brioche, multicolour, argyle, fair isle, lace and others that make them interesting and unique. There are lots of beautiful pictures of the finished products, but be prepared. The patterns don’t include anything other than instructions that assume you know how to use the loom. There is a section in the back that does include instructions for loom knitting with illustrations. It shows casting on, binding off, the stitches themselves and there is another section for any special skills that you might need that are included in the patterns. But I still couldn’t make head nor tails from it. I had hoped that the pattern would include illustration of how to use the loom for that pattern and hopefully I could make my way from the easier ones to the harder ones. No such luck!
I haven’t given up. I think if I watch some You Tube videos of how to do loom knitting, I might get the hang of it. Once I get the hang of how to make a rectangle, or a tube, then I will be able to go back and maybe make some of these lovely patterns. Good luck to those loom knitters out there. I think there is lots to enjoy in this book, but I’m not ready for it. Yet!
July 18, 2019
I recently got into loom knitting – which is more or less the same thing as regular old knitting, at least in terms of the finished products, but uses a solid frame to make the process of looping and tying and twisting the yarn simpler. It's fun! And since I'm very much the type of person who is always fiddling with things, it gives me something to do with my hands when I'm watching TV. However, I hit a wall fairly early on. There is a lot of 101-level, Intro-to-Loom-Knitting content out there, whether you're looking for books or websites or YouTube videos. There is much less 201-level or above content, which means that once you've made a basic scarf or hat, what you find is just... more basic scarves and hats.
But then I came across Amazing Loom Knits! A book that is very much not meant for the beginning loom knitter, and I love it for that. (By the way, if you are looking for beginner material, Round Loom Knitting in 10 Easy Lessons by the same author is one of the best books on the topic I've found.) Cox uses the patterns in this book to teach all sorts of advanced techniques: eyelet lace, Japanese lace, cables, brioche knitting, Gansey stitch, Fair Isle, etc. I immediately jumped in with the "Gansey Beanie"... which I have since abandoned, after unravelling it for the third time after making yet another mistake. But that only proves my point about Amazing Loom Knits being exactly the book I wanted: it's actually challenging! It gives me techniques that I can look forward to eventually mastering, instead of everything being so mindlessly simple that I quickly get bored. It's a book that you can spend a lot of time with, as you learn and progress to the more advanced patterns.
(By the way, I instead made what Cox calls an "Autumn Welted Toque", which has a cute and easier-to-master design of alternating raised and recessed stitches.)
Amazing Loom Knits includes thirty patterns, from the standard hats, scarves, gloves, and earwarmers, to slightly more unusual bags, socks, legwarmers, and shawls, and even a unique vest-cowl-combo-thingy. (I'm not entirely sure it's a vest-cowl-combo-thingy that I personally would want to wear, but I still applaud Cox for thinking outside the box). However, if there is an organizational structure to the book, I missed it. It's certainly not organized by type of product (putting all the hats together, for example), and it's not organized by difficulty level (Cox does label every pattern from "Beginner" to "Confident Beginner" to "Intermediate" to "Advanced", but the order they come in seems to be random). Which made choosing a pattern to work on very complicated, with much jumping back and forth from one page to another as I attempted to work out which ones I was currently capable of.
Despite that minor complaint, if you're looking for a book for advanced loom knitting, this is absolutely the one to pick up.
I read this as an ARC via NetGalley.
But then I came across Amazing Loom Knits! A book that is very much not meant for the beginning loom knitter, and I love it for that. (By the way, if you are looking for beginner material, Round Loom Knitting in 10 Easy Lessons by the same author is one of the best books on the topic I've found.) Cox uses the patterns in this book to teach all sorts of advanced techniques: eyelet lace, Japanese lace, cables, brioche knitting, Gansey stitch, Fair Isle, etc. I immediately jumped in with the "Gansey Beanie"... which I have since abandoned, after unravelling it for the third time after making yet another mistake. But that only proves my point about Amazing Loom Knits being exactly the book I wanted: it's actually challenging! It gives me techniques that I can look forward to eventually mastering, instead of everything being so mindlessly simple that I quickly get bored. It's a book that you can spend a lot of time with, as you learn and progress to the more advanced patterns.
(By the way, I instead made what Cox calls an "Autumn Welted Toque", which has a cute and easier-to-master design of alternating raised and recessed stitches.)
Amazing Loom Knits includes thirty patterns, from the standard hats, scarves, gloves, and earwarmers, to slightly more unusual bags, socks, legwarmers, and shawls, and even a unique vest-cowl-combo-thingy. (I'm not entirely sure it's a vest-cowl-combo-thingy that I personally would want to wear, but I still applaud Cox for thinking outside the box). However, if there is an organizational structure to the book, I missed it. It's certainly not organized by type of product (putting all the hats together, for example), and it's not organized by difficulty level (Cox does label every pattern from "Beginner" to "Confident Beginner" to "Intermediate" to "Advanced", but the order they come in seems to be random). Which made choosing a pattern to work on very complicated, with much jumping back and forth from one page to another as I attempted to work out which ones I was currently capable of.
Despite that minor complaint, if you're looking for a book for advanced loom knitting, this is absolutely the one to pick up.
I read this as an ARC via NetGalley.
August 1, 2019
I received an ARC of this book to read through NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. Amazing Loom Knits by Nicole F. Cox an an eye opener for me. My prior loom knitting experience had really only been with a spool knitter or a crank knitter and I’d only made long tubes of stockinette stitch with them. I had no idea that you could do flat knits, stranded colourwork, cables and lace with them and that you could make all kinds of hats, mitts, cowls, shawls and socks with them. The patterns in the book are lovely creations that any knitter would be proud to claim. Each pattern is beautifully photographed and the instructions are clear and concise. I think that the projects in the book would appeal to both beginning knitters as well as those more who are more experienced, and I think these projects would be good for people who struggle to hold knitting needles as the loom’s can be rested on a table while working. I do recommend this book and I am excited to try out my new sock loom that I was inspired by this book to purchase. Publishing Date August 1, 2019 #RowmanandLittlefield #StackpoleBooks #LoomKnitting #NicoleFCox #NetGalley #NewKnittingIdeas #Bookstagram #KnittingBooks
May 25, 2019
I discovered loom knitting several years ago and quickly fell in love with how simple and relaxing it was. After making several hats and scarves I found myself growing bored. The few project books I was able to find were either full of more hats and scarves or didn't do a good job of explaining stitches or steps, leaving me frustrated and my looms and yarn unused.
Amazing Loom Knits is exactly the book I needed! The projects are beautiful and unique while still being practical and the instructions are well explained. I had never even considered being able to use a loom for lace and I'm excited to try it out! My only suggestion would be to group projects by experience level for ease of use.
Overall, Amazing Loom Knits is an awesome resource for anyone interested in loom knitting, from absolute beginner to expert!
**Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC! All opinions are my own.**
Amazing Loom Knits is exactly the book I needed! The projects are beautiful and unique while still being practical and the instructions are well explained. I had never even considered being able to use a loom for lace and I'm excited to try it out! My only suggestion would be to group projects by experience level for ease of use.
Overall, Amazing Loom Knits is an awesome resource for anyone interested in loom knitting, from absolute beginner to expert!
**Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC! All opinions are my own.**
December 31, 2022
Looming
I am very excited about this book. Beautiful patterns, good instructions, very through. I have been looming about three years and looking forward to learning more. I am 84, used to knit & crochet but can't because of a failed surgery on my right hand. BUT, I can, very comfortably, hold a looming hook. I fell in.love with looming.
I am very excited about this book. Beautiful patterns, good instructions, very through. I have been looming about three years and looking forward to learning more. I am 84, used to knit & crochet but can't because of a failed surgery on my right hand. BUT, I can, very comfortably, hold a looming hook. I fell in.love with looming.
December 6, 2025
As loom knitting is a "new to me" craft, I found this to be in the advanced category. If know how to use a loom proficiently, basic setup and knitting then this is a nice book to step up your game.
June 27, 2019
When I was a child my sister and I had a rein knitter. We had a lot of fun manipulating yarn around the four-pegged tool as we made cording for belts, bracelets, etc. As a grown up the knitting loom has been a fascination for me. Once I got one it has been a little intimidating. This book is going to be an inspiration to me. This is more than just a book of patterns for various looms, round to rectangle. The author writes about skill levels, gauge, measurements and blocking along with yarn and supplies needed for the patterns. Each pattern has a set of notes and a very helpful photograph of the finished item. The photos truly draw my eye helping me pick out things I'd like to make. In the individual pattern notes there is a skill level designation and yarn brand suggestion.
There are all types of items from hats to shawls and cowls to make. There are patterns for beginners to advanced loom knitters
Additional information for stitches and techniques are included in the pattern book.
Abbreviations from patterns are described to help a beginner loom knitter as the book is used to make things.
This is not a book to train a beginner but it does provide helpful information. There are a wide variety of patterns to choose from for adult or teen sizes. Children's items are not included. An experienced loom knitter will surely be able to adapt for smaller sizes if desired. Some simple crochet stitches are used for trim or edging on at least one pattern.
The book has excellently photographed items and an easy to look up visual index for the patterns. I love the look of several items including a Winter Ushunka and an Autumn Gathering Scarf. I think there is something of interest for nearly any adult.
Overall I am pleased with my Kindle advanced reader's copy of this book. I love crafting and this is a welcome addition to my loom knitting supply. I want to thank the author Nicole Cox and the publisher, Stackpole Books, along with NetGalley for my copy. I'd recommend the book for beginners like me to the Expert level. It would make a beautiful gift too.
There are all types of items from hats to shawls and cowls to make. There are patterns for beginners to advanced loom knitters
Additional information for stitches and techniques are included in the pattern book.
Abbreviations from patterns are described to help a beginner loom knitter as the book is used to make things.
This is not a book to train a beginner but it does provide helpful information. There are a wide variety of patterns to choose from for adult or teen sizes. Children's items are not included. An experienced loom knitter will surely be able to adapt for smaller sizes if desired. Some simple crochet stitches are used for trim or edging on at least one pattern.
The book has excellently photographed items and an easy to look up visual index for the patterns. I love the look of several items including a Winter Ushunka and an Autumn Gathering Scarf. I think there is something of interest for nearly any adult.
Overall I am pleased with my Kindle advanced reader's copy of this book. I love crafting and this is a welcome addition to my loom knitting supply. I want to thank the author Nicole Cox and the publisher, Stackpole Books, along with NetGalley for my copy. I'd recommend the book for beginners like me to the Expert level. It would make a beautiful gift too.
April 20, 2019
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
30 Amazing Loom Knits is a tutorial technique project book with a nice selection of loom knit projects. I think a lot of people unfairly dismiss knitting looms as 'kids crafts' and only remember the (admittedly) hideous polyester knitted hotpads and pot holders we all made in the 1970s (in avocado and harvest gold!). Forget those. These are stylish projects with a wide variety of uses from socks and scarves and leg warmers, to bags, shawls, and hats. The projects use a wide variety of yarns (they seem to be slanted to North American readers' availabilities), but substitutions should be painless.
Due out 1st Aug 2019 from Rowman & Littlefield on their Stackpole imprint, it's 160 pages and will be available in paperback format. Author Nicole F. Cox will be familiar to many of the Ravelry crowd. The tutorials are well photographed and the accompanying text is easy to follow. Many of the patterns include 'Japanese' style design charts (do those graphic charts have a different name?) as well as written pattern row by row descriptions.
These are appealing and well made with designer details.
Five stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
30 Amazing Loom Knits is a tutorial technique project book with a nice selection of loom knit projects. I think a lot of people unfairly dismiss knitting looms as 'kids crafts' and only remember the (admittedly) hideous polyester knitted hotpads and pot holders we all made in the 1970s (in avocado and harvest gold!). Forget those. These are stylish projects with a wide variety of uses from socks and scarves and leg warmers, to bags, shawls, and hats. The projects use a wide variety of yarns (they seem to be slanted to North American readers' availabilities), but substitutions should be painless.
Due out 1st Aug 2019 from Rowman & Littlefield on their Stackpole imprint, it's 160 pages and will be available in paperback format. Author Nicole F. Cox will be familiar to many of the Ravelry crowd. The tutorials are well photographed and the accompanying text is easy to follow. Many of the patterns include 'Japanese' style design charts (do those graphic charts have a different name?) as well as written pattern row by row descriptions.
These are appealing and well made with designer details.
Five stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
April 23, 2019
Amazing Loom Knits
by Nicole F. Cox
If you love knitting, you’ll have no problem with loom Knitting. I had purchased a whole set of looms, but the instruction book was so difficult to follow and never got anywhere with it. But now that I have this new book, it makes everything look easy to accomplish.
As you go through the book you will find projects that range from beginner to intermediate, and a few with advanced skills. Each project is so well laid out for you to succeed in completing it. Each pattern provides the gauge and what the loom setup should be. The yarn type that is best suited for this project. How to do any special stitches, then the patterns to finishing instructions.
The patterns range from hats, headbands, scarfs, leg warmers and sock, wraps and bags. Each is accompanied with a photo showing what the completed project looks like.
The project I am beginning with is the convertible mittens.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
#Netgalley
by Nicole F. Cox
If you love knitting, you’ll have no problem with loom Knitting. I had purchased a whole set of looms, but the instruction book was so difficult to follow and never got anywhere with it. But now that I have this new book, it makes everything look easy to accomplish.
As you go through the book you will find projects that range from beginner to intermediate, and a few with advanced skills. Each project is so well laid out for you to succeed in completing it. Each pattern provides the gauge and what the loom setup should be. The yarn type that is best suited for this project. How to do any special stitches, then the patterns to finishing instructions.
The patterns range from hats, headbands, scarfs, leg warmers and sock, wraps and bags. Each is accompanied with a photo showing what the completed project looks like.
The project I am beginning with is the convertible mittens.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
#Netgalley
May 28, 2019
I have been a little intimidated by making things on my loom besides something like a hat or scarf. Nicole Cox takes that fear away with this book. She has step by step instructions with color photos for everything from setting things up on the loom to casting off. In addition, there are many projects that vary from socks and hats to purses and shawls. There are even several patterns that are stranded knitting or fair isle! I love that many of the yarns are "normal" yarns you can find at a big box store, or are regular worsted weight yarns that can easily be substituted..
The patterns are well written and easy to follow, and coupled with her instructions, make this loom knitter inspired to try something new. Patterns are rated for beginner - advanced and are all very lovely. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in starting a loom knit project with flair.
Thanks to #NetGalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
The patterns are well written and easy to follow, and coupled with her instructions, make this loom knitter inspired to try something new. Patterns are rated for beginner - advanced and are all very lovely. I would highly recommend to anyone interested in starting a loom knit project with flair.
Thanks to #NetGalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
May 26, 2019
This book has a number of loom knitting patterns with designations whether for beginner, confident beginner, and intermediate. The pattern instructions are written clearly and the author provides charts for some of the patterns.
There is a great deal of information towards the back of the book giving detailed instructions on all of the stitches used in the patterns. There is also a list of resources for loom knitters, as well as the authors link to youtube videos and her website. She also lists stores that carry the yarns mentioned in the book.
Even as a beginning loom knitter I found this book very helpful and will be buying the book when it is published. A great resource for loom knitters.
There is a great deal of information towards the back of the book giving detailed instructions on all of the stitches used in the patterns. There is also a list of resources for loom knitters, as well as the authors link to youtube videos and her website. She also lists stores that carry the yarns mentioned in the book.
Even as a beginning loom knitter I found this book very helpful and will be buying the book when it is published. A great resource for loom knitters.
April 26, 2019
I received an advanced digital copy of this book from the author, Netgalley.com and Rowman & Littlefield Books. Thanks to all for the opportunity to read and review.
Ms. Cox has created an amazing craft resource book for loom knitters of all abilities. The basics are excellently explained and explored with clear photography. Projects of all types are included that will suit everyone's tastes.
If you've ever been to the store and saw the looms and thought "I could do that but what would I make?" this is the book for you.
5 out of 5 stars. Recommended for your craft library.
Ms. Cox has created an amazing craft resource book for loom knitters of all abilities. The basics are excellently explained and explored with clear photography. Projects of all types are included that will suit everyone's tastes.
If you've ever been to the store and saw the looms and thought "I could do that but what would I make?" this is the book for you.
5 out of 5 stars. Recommended for your craft library.
May 2, 2019
This book is a must-own for any loom knitters! There are so many great patterns in it and the instructions are easy to follow. I do think that the how-to should have been in the front, rather than the back of the book. However, it didn't take away from the book. I look forward to trying some patterns!
April 20, 2019
I can never think of ways to use my looms, and this book gave me an awesome selection of patterns. I cannot wait to try them all.
There is a bit of everything in the book, too, so it's not just all one thing you can make different ways on a loom. Great collection.
There is a bit of everything in the book, too, so it's not just all one thing you can make different ways on a loom. Great collection.
July 16, 2019
I'd been looking for a good loom knit book with clear instructions and great tips on how to use the loom I got as a gift. This book hit every one of my requirements and was so easy to follow, my grandchildren are now proficient too.
August 1, 2019
Fantastic book! I have been a knitter for a few years but I have always wanted to get into loom knitting and this was a great way to start. Great instructions and very motivational to get you started.
May 9, 2019
Amazing Loom Knits is a great addition to any crafter’s library. I am new to the crafting world and this book provides instructions perfect for beginners.
September 25, 2019
I need to relook and rethink loom knitting.
February 19, 2020
This book has some great patterns!
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