Hello! My name is Bethany Dailey.
I’ve loved crafts of all kinds for as long as I can remember. My love of yarns and crocheting began when I was about 7 years old. I am blessed enough to come from a family with a heritage of crafting and fibrelore. My childhood favorite blanket that I carried around until it hung in tattered rags, was one my Great Grandmother quilted for me, and then my mother re-covered; which by the way, I still own to this day :) I’ve always had the great example of “if something is worth having, then it’s worth creating yourself”. After multiple injuries to my wrists in 2003, resulting in 4 surgeries in the first half of 2004, my crafting came to a screeching halt. I had been in the middle of crocheting a sweater for my oldest daugher, and everytime I tried to pick up the hook for any length of time, I ended up very sore, to say the least. I despaired finding something… anything…I could enjoy as a creative outlet.
I first spotted those intriguing and colorful round looms at my local craft store at the close of 2004. I couldn’t resist taking them home to give it a try. It was love at first loop! And…I could knit without discomfort for good stretches at a time…I was elated!
I began teaching almost immediately, due to all the comments I kept hearing about the looms…”How on earth do you get those to work?” …”I’ve made 64 hats! Now what?!”…”Can you knit something other than a tube?” I took these questions as a challenge to create original projects that people would love learning, and that would contain new techniques valuable to their future knitting experiences.
I so enjoyed the fact that, like me, people of all situations and circumstances, could pick up those looms and find something to feed their creative appetites. I’ve had students from 5 years old to 82 years young!…students with hand and wrist problems that could finally create a project worth being proud of…students on a diet who needed something to do in the evenings to keep them out of the fridge!…the list goes on…
I hope you feel at home while exploring this blog and sincerely wish that you enjoy the projects that are to be found here. It is my goal to be a help to you in your future looming adventures, so that you too can say…”I’m Gettin’ It Pegged!”
What a wonderful page you have here Bethany!
Great Job!
looks good! its a lot of work. I like that you get free patterns! talk later J.J.
Hello! I have been an avid crocheter for many years. I tried knitting with needles once and didn’t like it at all. But I am very interested in at least trying loom knitting to see if I would like it any better. I think I might like it, since I enjoy making potholders with loops on a loom, though this may be a lot different. I think I may want to take a class to start out with and I see you are in Wash., but I’m not finding where in Wash. Can you give me an idea of where you are? I’m in the Port Orchard area. Thanks! Teri