Having some fun the past few weeks organizing my studio (also known as my living room). When that happens, I often find tools I’ve forgotten about and get reacquainted with all my supplies.

While organizing a tangled mess of handspun scraps, I grabbed my vintage Weave-it pin loom and started working up squares.

I had nothing in mind about what I wanted to do with them. However, I do need to know how to use the Weave-it for a class I’m taking in April. So one thing on my to-do list is complete!

I remembered I had some small skeins of handspun cotton I wanted to make something with, so I grabbed those and made a few squares with the cotton.

Then I wondered how I was going to join these squares together. I decided to grab a crochet hook. It took a few tries, and the beginning and end join are imperfect. I like how they look, and it works for me.

This is a very rough tutorial that I hope inspires you to join pin loom squares together with a hook. It starts with the pin loom square, which has little nubs surrounding the square. See what it looks like in the image below the nub is circled.

I started by laying out the squares two by two (See the image below.) Then, starting from the bottom right square, I joined the yarn with a slip stitch into the right square nub, chain 3, double crochet into the left square’s nub, chain 2, double crochet into the right square’s nub, double crochet into the left square’s nub. I repeated chain 2, double crochet to the right, double crochet to the left across the four squares, then fastened off.

I turned the work and repeated the same process. There is a little fussing in the center where you work in the same nubs and over the joins you already completed.

Then I worked single crochets in the outside nubs, chain 3. When I got to the joined sections, I did a double crochet post-stitch on the cotton sample. The beginning and end of the single crochet and chain 3 sections are imperfect. I’m considering fastening off after the last join section and then rejoining. That does mean more ends to weave in!

I finished some squares with single crochets into the nubs and chain 3 stitches around the square. I’ve hung them up in my living room window.

I also like them on a table for a bit of decoration. A few more squares could make a nice runner.

Do you have a pin loom? What have you made with your little squares?