Hi guys!
I saw this little video a while ago for making ribbon and yarn flowers on flower looms. I remember flower looms were all the rage when I was a teen (in the late 60s and early 70s) but they don’t seem to be very easy to find nowadays.
I really wanted to try this technique and while I know you can cobble something together that looks similar by just wrapping yarn or ribbon and tying it then fluffing it, the samples in the video look a lot more polished, with the stitching and all. One problem – no loom, and (impatient me!) I wanted to try it TODAY. So I thought about it a bit and developed a plan and made my own.
Here is the flower:
I think it turned out fab – I want to try a nested yarn one with two colours and will share that tomorrow – along with how I made my own version using stuff that I had (except on element which I did have to buy but cost under £1.50)
I think you could easily use something like the Nifty Knitter, which looks like this:
although the bulbs on the end of the pegs will make getting the flower off difficult.
scrappystickyinkymess 
12/07/2011 at 10:45 pm
In all the videos for the knifty knitter loom it says you can pull the pegs out when you’re trying to take the flower off, so the bulbs wouldn’t be a problem. 🙂 I’m getting the Hana Ami loom though. You can do way more with it. It comes with 6 different shapes/sizes, and you can use two at the same time. It’s pretty cool.
26/02/2010 at 11:30 am
Oh I loved these when I was a girl 😀
I had a plastic one and it came with instructions on making things like blankets and waistcoats with them LOL 😀
Love it with the ribbon though 😀
Julie xx