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Does anyone remember knitting boards?

21 years ago

I don't know what else to call them. But..we would take a small board and put nails in it and then wrap the yarn around the nails and start knitting. I would love to find the instructions for these..for children, but can't find them when doing a search. I've been looking and looking, but I can just find the round ones and one long straight one, but it had two sides. I would like to find the instructions for how we used to put nails into a board and then wrapped the yarn around the nails...would anyone here know where I could find this?

Comments (10)

  • 21 years ago

    Interesting, I've never heard of it. Did you do a google?

  • 21 years ago

    Well, I found a page that sells the frame knitting boards, Maybee. I'll keep looking for instructions!

    Here is a link that might be useful: Frame Knitting or Board Knitting

  • 21 years ago

    Ha! I knew I'd seen them somewhere... here are instructions on how to start the knitting...
    Knitting Board Basic Instructions

    And here's a page with lots of links to more instructions, patterns, and interest groups...
    Iris' Knitting Loom and Knitting Board Hobby

    Let us know if you need more stuff, or if this isn't what you had in mind!

  • 21 years ago

    Thanks for the photo Red. I thought she meant a flat board with nails pounded into it.

    Similar things like you showed have been on Aleene's in the old days.

  • 21 years ago

    thank you all for the links...and I'm about to go and take a look...but Minnie...I "did" mean a flat board with nails pounded into it. My daughter and I did this when she was younger...I'll have to ask her if she remembers how to do it...it was just one row of nails and you pull the yarn over the top of the nails...

  • 21 years ago

    Okay...just went and took a look...the one set of instructions that Red had was "sort" of like what we did only we had only one row of nails on a flat board...the other sites I had already been through and didn't find what I was looking for...darn.

    I guess we should never throw these crafty instructions away just because our kids outgrow them...now, I want to do it with my granddaughter...

  • 21 years ago

    Wouldn't it be great if you could figure one out and then offer them for sale on EBay or something?

  • 21 years ago

    Maybee - I'm not certain if you are looking for the instructions on how to make the board (size of nail, spacing, etc.) or how to do the knitting with only one line of pegs.

    Here are the instructions on how to actually wrap the yarn and do the 'knitting' for a single line of pegs:

    Instructions for the Single Stitch for Flat Knitting

    Begin by wrapping all the pegs in a clock-wise direction, starting on the left side of the loom and moving to right. At the end of the first row, you wrap the last peg twice in a clock-wise direction, so that it will have two loops on it, then change directions and wrap the next peg in a counter clock- wise direction. Continue wrapping the pegs in a counter clock-wise direction until you reach the left side of the loom. Next, pull the bottom loop over the top loop of each peg, starting with the last peg that you wrapped to lock the loose end of the yarn in place. For the second row, wrap all of the pegs in a clock-wise direction, moving from the left side of the loom, toward the right, the same as with the first row. Lift the bottom loop over the top loop of each peg. You are now on the far right peg. Wrap it and all of the other pegs in the row in a counter clock-wise direction until you reach the left side of the loom.

    The above was copied from the site linked below...

    Here is a link that might be useful: Basic Instructions for Using the Dream Board

  • 21 years ago

    When I was a child, my mother made me mini knitting
    "machines" like this from wooden spools, they were called "Knitting Nancies".
    I spent many many hours making yards of knitted tubing which
    were then wound into ovals or circles to make rugs, hotpads and countless other household items.
    Thanks for the memory of the "Nancies"...
    Always - Jude!

  • 21 years ago

    Red Confetti...It was the instructions that I was looking for...I think I may remember how to do the board, but I couldn't remember "how" to do the knitting on it. I'll try your instructions tomorrow when I'm not so tired (the days of me shopping all day are over..sad, but true) I went to visit our daughter today and she remembered doing this, but couldn't remember "how" either....

    Jude..yes, we used to do that, too. Our daughter was talking about that today also. We put four nails on a wooden spool and she would turn out little tubes by the yard...

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