Vintage Magic Looms don’t do granny squares
November 4, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under small loom weaving, yarn crafts
The post office loves it when we decide to de-clutter.
We find treasures that we send to our friends- so the friends are happy, and the post office is sooooooo happy because Friend B then mails a treasure on to Friend C, to keep the de-cluttering going.
And, oh yes,Friend B has to send a little thank you back to Friend A. Yes… the post office loves it when we de-clutter.
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One of my friends(Friend A)
started a cycle of
making the Post Office
and me (Friend B)
very happy.
We were talking about
small looms and
flower looms.
She had noticed that I blogged about my broken much loved flower loom . She mentioned that she had an extra flower loom or two and would I like to have them?
Are you kidding? I went wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee oh yes oh yes oh yes oh yes puhleeeeeeeeeeeze……..
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
I was thrilled to bits
when I opened
the box and
whoo whoo!
Not only had my
friend sent me
some flower looms
(I’ll take pics)
she sent me
a set of Magic Looms, too..
And, I just cracked up when I saw that the big box of new loomies has EXACTLY the same photo, (only upside down), as the little box that I already have.
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
Magic Looms are
really quite
wonderful.
They make neat little
squares of all descriptions….
and it struck me
today, that you could
use them as flower looms, too….
(That’s on my ‘give it a try’ list.)
photo by Noreen Crone-Findlay copyright
I have been
experimenting with
using the Magic Loom
for making needle lace .
I love using the motifs
from the Magic Looms
in dollmaking and
freeform crocheted
pieces, too.
There are a lot of ways of
working with the
rather appropriately
named little loomies.
(I don’t think they’re made anymore, so you’ll have to watch for them in garage sales and at thrift stores and places like that).
The one thing that the Magic Looms ABSOLUTELY DO NOT make would be anything remotely resembling a crocheted Granny Square.
So, tell me….. why, oh why, would the manufacturers show a photo (repeatedly and then upside down) of something that their product is totally incapable of making?
Why would they do that?
Don’t they understand how ticked off some poor person was going to feel about it, if the only reason why she bought it was because she thought that she could make a granny square on it?
Ah well, customer relations were obviously not part of their picture.
That’s okay, because The Post Office is pleased.
And, Friend A is hopefully going to be pleased, because, of course, I will have to send her a little something to say thank you, and then there’s Friend C that will be receiving a little something from my stash. (In the interests of de-cluttering).
Yep…. the Post Office loves de-cluttering…. don’t we all?
Hi Noreen – Your post made me get out the little box of Magic Looms I got on eBay awhile back – on my box, it shows just a line drawing suggesting the actual sort of squares these looms produce. However, tucked into the box is an ad for the Magic Looms from the Carol Wright catalog of 1992. The ad makes no mention of magic, calls it an Afghan Loom –and shows a picture of a crocheted granny square afghan. I do imagine the person who sent for them felt a bit disappointed.
And your Bog Coat for Einstein – what a hoot! You’re just a genius yourself, y’know!!
Hugs,
Zann
Hi Zann
The truly sad thing is that the Magic Looms are really quite delightful little looms, and if they had been marketed correctly for what they can do, then people would have been happier with them…. I assume…. (I have heard gnashing of teeth and wailing about them being ‘wrong wrong wrong’…..)
I have a perfectly lovely time with mine!
I am so pleased that you like Albert Einstein’s Bog Coat. I felt like I should have woven him a Lab Coat, but I suspect that he’d approve of the quirkiness of the ancient method of making the bog coat.
And thanks for the compliment, which was so kind of you, and I have had to erase the ‘but I really am’ this that and the other several times, so I’ll just leave off the self deprecating remarks (LOL, I just erased a REALLY self deprecating remark from these brackets!) and say just thank you thank you! ROTFLOL!
Well, darn, I had one of those little magic looms, and I think I got rid of it a few years ago! (see, the decluttering is not always a good move). Now I can picture several things I’d like to try with it!! I don’t know that I had any original packaging with it, though. Maybe that’s why I got rid of it, because I didn’t really know how to use it?! Hmmmm..
Hi Lynn
Oh dear! well…. I hope another one pops up for you.Perhaps someone else will de-clutter it in your direction! LOL!
I have been thinking that I should make a video of how to work with the Magic Loom. They really are delightful little looms.
Did you see the tiny Bog Coat that I made for Albert Einstein with the 2 inch Magic Loom? Fun!