Daisy loom

This is my interpretation of a vintage bates easy daisy loom.

This can create simple flowers or daisy's from yarn that can be used as accessories to many crochet, knitting or sewing projects.

Instructions:

To make this you only need a 3d printer, 1.75mm filament, some side cutters/nippers, a small deburring tool, super glue and safety glasses.

Optionally you can use a PTFE tube cutter (like the one in the pictures) to make cleaner pivot pins.

To make a daisy you'll need some yarn either just one colour or two and a darning needle or blunt needle that you can thread your yarn though.

Printing:

Setting guidelines: Printed on a Creality K1 max with a 0.4mm nozzle

Ensure your printer is tuned/ calibrated with the filament your using as these parts are very small any error in your calibration may cause the holes to be too tight.

All parts require no supports.

I recommend printing as many of the loom links and loom pin you can fit at once on a build plate without interfering with the nozzle clearance and enable "printing one at a time" to speed up the printing.

Loom body 

0.15 layer height

2 walls

8 top and bottom layers

30% infill

0.3mm outer and inner line width

Loom hub

0.15 layer height

2 walls

8 top and bottom layers

30% infill

0.3mm outer and inner line width

Loom lid

0.08 layer height

2 walls

8 top and bottom layers

0.3mm outer and inner line width

Loom link

0.08 layer height

solid (99 walls)

8 top and bottom layers

0.3mm outer and inner line width

Loom pin

0.08 layer height

solid (99 walls)

8 top and bottom layers

0.3mm outer and inner line width

You will need to print 1 of each of the Loom Body, Loom Hub and Loom Lid then print 12 of the Loom link and Loom Pin try to print the loom link and loom pin without a brim as this can be very tedious to remove after.

While the parts are printing you'll need to straighten then don your safety specs to cut the 24 pieces of 1.75mm PLA filament as flying small pieces of filament could seriously damage your eyes.

To straighten the filament hold one end tightly of around 1 metre of filament then wrap your hand around the filament placing your opposite hands thumb on the outside curve and forefinger on the inside.

Squeeze and draw the filament through your hand trying to bend the filament in the opposite direction to how it wants to naturally curl this can be repeated several times until most of the curve is out of the filament.

While wearing safety glasses cut 24 pieces of 1.75mm filament to 9mm long if you don't have the tube cutter you'll notice the one side of the cutters/nippers make a cleaner cut then the other so its worth alternating cutting directions to get the cleanest pins this will waste a small amount of filament for every pin you make.

When everything has finished printing use the deburring tool to clean up the edges of all of the round pin holes on all of the parts.

Assembly:

1. Place the loom hub into the centre of the loom body and insert a pin into each hole in the hub.
2. Place a loom link printer bed side down onto each of the pins in the hub.
3. Insert a pin into the 12 loom pin's.
4. One at a time place one loom pin into one of the 12 holes in the periphery of the loom body from the inside to the outside.
5. carefully lift up a corresponding loom link and place it over the top of the loom pin's protruding pin until it seats all the way down.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you have all of the loom links and loom pin's connected.
7. While wearing safety glasses carefully use the nippers to trim the excess of the filament pin's flush with the top of each assembly.
8. Check the mechanism for free movement any stiff loom pin's can be worked in and out several times to loosen them up.
9. Check the fitment of the loom lid and the mechanism with it held in place.
10. Apply a very thin bead of superglue around the recess for the lid and press the loom lid firmly into place one last time and hold until the glue is set.
11. One last final check of the mechanism and you have a completed Daisy loom.

Using the daisy loom:

1. Rotate the knob until the pins are sticking out all the way facing the knob away from you take one end of your yarn hold it down with your thumb (leaving 4 inches of tail) and wrap from left to right of the top most pin.
2. Bring it down to the opposite pin and wrap from right to left and back up to the middle
3. Move one pin to the right and repeat the same action left to right down then right to left until you get back to the start and every peg has one loop of yarn on it.
4. Your two ends of yarn should be both next to each other and going in the same direction cut the long end of the yarn so there's roughly the same amount as the starting tail.
5. Take a length of yarn either in a contrasting colour or the same yarn and thread it onto your needle.
6. Starting in the space between the two petals that have the short tails left pass the needle anti-clockwise under 4 of the petals making sure not to pull the tail through.
7. Wrap back over the top 3 petals (moving one petal anti-clockwise) pass under 4 petals and back over continue this process stepping one petal over each time creating 13 stiches.
8. Pass the needle through the back of the middle knot and stitch it into the back finishing the end of the yarn repeat this with the other left over tails.
9. Turn the knob on the daisy loom to retract the pins and your daisy is complete you can tie the ends into the back of the daisy and cut off the excess or use it to attach them to whatever project you like.

Thanks for taking the time to make this I hope you enjoy it.