Friday, January 23, 2015

How to Loom Knit a Goat




 This pattern is shown for a Sanaan which is good for other larger goat breeds, you will simply need to adjust the colors as necessary for the preference you are looking for. I have also included instructions for creating the smaller breeds, as well as how to go about removing horns and adding jewels. If you are looking for ears for the nubian or boer breeds give me time to work the ear pattern up. If you have my dog pattern I would suggest trying the dog ears where the ears are on the goat for a nubian or boer.


Goat

Items:
24 peg and 12 peg loom
looming hook
crafters needle
crochet hook
2 skeins of yarn (White )
scrap yarn of Tan yarn
polyfil
2 eyes

Terms:
DSCO: Draw String Cast On
EW: E-Wrap
P: Purl
D: Decrease
I: Increase
WT: Wrap and Turn
DSCOF: Draw String Cast Off
COF: Cast Off
CC: Change Color
W: White
T: Tan
BOLB: Bring Original Loop Back

Head: Flat: 24 pegs:
DSCO 24 pegs
Row 1-6: EW
Row 7: EW4 (Ear: EW4 2rows, I1 EW4, I1 EW5, EW6 4rows, EW4 3rows, EW2 3rows,(Change color to pink at the point if you want) EW4 3rows, EW6 4rows, D1 EW1 EW2 D1 EW1, EW4 4rows, BOLB)If you want to do a hornless goat EW8(Horn: CC T, EW4 8rows, EW3, EW2 3rows, EW3, EW4 10rows BOLB) repeat horn, CC W repeat ear, EW4 (Note: on the increased pegs make sure not to touch the original loop on the peg, you end up connecting the middle of your head with the middle of your ear if you do. Also when you bring your original loops back toss the bottom loops over. Plus you don't have to cut your white when you change to doing the horn color.)
Row 8-13: EW
Row 14: D1 EW1, D1 EW1, D1 EW1, D1 EW1, D1 EW1, EW4, D1 EW1, D1 EW1, D1 EW1, D1 EW1, D1 EW1 (bring the loops together and tighten your loops)
Row 15-21: EW
DSCOF
Sew up snout, ears, and horns. Close up the back of the head and stuff.

Body: Circular: 24 pegs:
DSCO 24 White
Row 1-5: EW
Row 6: P10 (Tail: EW4 4rows, EW3, EW2 3rows, EW3, EW4 4rows, BOLB) P10
Row 7-22: EW (if wanting to do a smaller sized goat do 10rows rather than 15rows)
Row 23: EW10, D1 EW1, (Start working Flat) EW21, D1 EW1
Row 24: EW16, WT, EW10, WT, EW9, WT, EW8, WT, EW7, WT, EW6, WT, EW5, WT, EW4, WT EW4, EW5, EW6, EW7, EW8, EW9, EW10, EW11, EW12, EW17
Row 25: D1 EW1, D1 EW1, D1 EW1, EW10, D1 EW1, D1 EW1, D1 EW1 (16)
Row 26-32: EW16 (if you want a short neck do 5 rows rather than 7 rows) If you want to add jewels on the first row of this section EW6, EW2 6rows BOLB, EW2 6rows BOLB, EW6.
COF
Sew up the neck and close up the bottom and stuff.

Legs: Circular: 12 pegs:
DSCO 12 pegs Tan
Row 1-2: EW
Row 3: P
Row 4-13: CC W EW (If you want shorter legs do 7 row rather than 10rows)
COF
Make 4, close up bottoms, and stuff.

Assemble:
Sew head on first lining back of head up with the tail. When sewing on legs start off with the front legs, find the base of the 4 column that was left after the wrap and turn sew the legs on at the base. Lining up your back legs on the same line as the front but start sewing from the purled row forward. Hot glue or sew on your eyes lined up between the horn and ears at the base of the snout. Weave in and trim up your beard area under the chin. Your done!!!
Give me time to work up Nubian and Boer ears to add later.

2 comments:

  1. Scarlett,
    Is there a particular vendor, make, model and diameter of the eyes that you can recommend to us?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I personally make my own eyes all the time and have considered making extra to sell. I do have a tutorial showing how to make eyes. It really isn't too bad just a little time consuming. After that I don't know who of what I would suggest. Safety eyes for stuffed animals are good but you would want a 13mm to 18mm eyes.

      Delete