Operation Christmas Child Loom Knitting Projects

December 5, 2012 Comments: 6

Operation Christmas Child : My All-Time Favorite Charity

Operation Christmas Child started in 1993. It is the gift giving project of the relief organization Samaritan’s Purse. Today they have traveled to over 130 countries and have delivered over 100 million gift filled shoe boxes.

This charity is especially close to my heart. How can I express the love my family and I have for this project but by telling you that we work all year-long looking for bargain items and making special hand-made gifts to fill shoe boxes that I know will travel across the globe to some poverty-stricken, hurting , and often abandoned children left in cold and unloving orphanages. I have personally met two recipients, now grown-ups, who have told us of unspeakable situations and the impact of a small but powerful little shoe box.

I know that many of these kids have Never had a toy or a candy. That many will go to school for the first time because in my little boxes I remembered to include school supplies.

I am so amazed of the joy that I can give with just a few store-bought items and a few loom knitted toys. Let me show you what that joy looks like…

How Can Your Loom Knitting Help Operation Christmas Child?

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How to Loom Knit a Hat EASY

December 2, 2012 Comments: 17

How to Loom Knit a Hat- Easy

Learn how to loom knit the basic hat is almost fail-proof with a circular loom. To top that off your supply list is made-up of only five items, a loom, a hook, yarn, a yarn needle and scissors making loom knitting an affordable project that will serve you well many times over.

Once you know this simple project a lot of the others you will find on this site are just adjustments of the basic loom knit hat.

Follow the links below for picture and text tutorials.There is a video tutorial as well if that is of your preference.

Important Note – For the hat in the picture – just turn your basic loom knit hat inside out.

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How to Loom Knit a Flower – A Very Different Flower

November 13, 2012 Comments: 15

How to Loom Knit a Flower – The Flat Hat Flower

I wasn’t looking to learn how to loom knit a flower when I discovered this beauty. I was first learning how to loom knit hats using the Knifty Knitter loom. I made a mistake and created a really cool knitted flower … I named my odd creation and now I make them often in many styles and colors. Loom a Hat Style. Below is the not so fascinating tale of this adventure, a text and picture tutorial and for you visual learner there is a link to a video tutorial.

The Official Story behind The Flat Hat Flower:

I was looming one of my first hats with the Knifty Knitter blue 24 peg loom. Half-way through the project I discover that the loom was the wrong size and that the knit hat would be too small for the teenager I intended to bless with the gift. In my frustration I flattened the hat to put it away. I noticed that it looked a lot like a flower sooooooo I put a button on it and baptized it, “The Flat Hat Flower”.Talk about a great lesson about turning your mistakes into advantage. Hope you like it as much as I do.

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