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Description: Lucets are totally portable and fun to use! Lucet made cord is an alternative to kumihimo, cord and crochet chains. The cord can be make from any yarn and can be used for award cord, drawstrings, trim, frogs, shoelaces, and any other cord uses.

Class will cover how to start, work, and finish a 2 color (double thread) lucet cord that allows for two color cords, button holes, and other fun stuff.

Skill Level: The classes are suitable for all students from Beginner to Advanced. No experience at anything is necessary. The class is perfect for a beginner, but will also include techniques that should interest intermediate and advanced lucet users.

Class 1, May 10th We'll make two thread lucet cords. Making two color cord in a manner that allows us to add picots and center slits. I find this method easier to work than the standard single cord lucet method. (Click on photo for larger view)

Class 2, May 17th We'll add one and then two gimp cords down the outside center of the cord, a method that allows for adding beads and other decorations as you work the braid. (Click on photo for larger view)

Class 3, May 24th We'll work with double lucets / four pronged lucets / four nail spool knitters / dollies. Using 2 colors as well as one color. Making square cord, round hollow cord, and narrow flat fabric. (Click on photo for larger view)

• Thread — 4 colors of size 3 or 5 crochet cotton thread.
  • Class 1 2 colors needed
  • Class 2 4 colors needed
  • Class 3 2 or 3 colors needed


• Lucet — A standard lucet or other 2-pronged device (straight or curved sided is fine).
  Don't have one?
  • A 4 nail spool knitter (Knitting Nancy, French Knitter) will work
  • or check out the interesting ideas for homemade lucets on this Pinterest page.


• 4 prong Lucet or Knitting Spool / Dolly
  Don't have one?
  • You will need A STURDY 4 nail spool knitter (Knitting Nancy, French Knitter)
  • You can make your own (search google) BUT make sure it's STUDRY


• A small Crochet hook or nail — to work the lucet and knitting spool


• Optional: Bobbins — If possible, wind each color of thread onto a bobbin of some kind
  • Plastic snap bobbins
  • Wooden clothes pins (the kind with springs), hold the thread in place by clipping the pin on it
  • DMC floss holders with a half hitch to hold the thread in place
  • Knitting bobbins, or any other bobbin that will hold your thread securely in place


• Optional: Safety pins — Useful to preserve the working loops of your cord if you take the work off the lucet to start the next class and want to continue to work the cord later.

Complete Kit: $20.00 USD (Plus shipping cost)     – Lucet     – Spool Knitter w/ hook     – 9 Bobbins w/ 5 yards of yarn each Lucet, Bobbins & Yarn: $16.50 USD (Plus shipping cost)     – Lucet     – 9 Bobbins w/ 5 yards of yarn each Spool Knitter & Bobbins, Yarn: $15.00 USD (Plus shipping cost)     – Spool Knitter w/ hook     – 9 Bobbins w/ 5 yards of yarn each Bobbins & yarn only: $11.50 USD (Plus shipping cost)     – 9 Bobbins w/ 5 yards of yarn each Payment via PayPal, Venmo, or Check. Shipped from the United States To order a kit, email me at

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A 3D printed lucet Chose: White or Black (Click on photo for larger view)

A Susan Bates Crystalites French Knitter w/ crochet hook Chose: Yellow, Orange, or Green (Click on photos for larger view)

Yarn Chose: 2 main colors and 2 secondary colors from: Lt. Pink, Pink, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Lavender, Black, Brown, Gray, White (Click on photo for larger view)

9 bobbins pre-loaded with 4 different colors of size 3 crochet cotton, grouped and labelled by class number (Click on photos for larger view)

Lucet History

The lucet is a historically accurate tool for making cord. The method I'll be teaching may or may not be historically accurate ..... while the lucets have survived the cord has not. More info on lucet history

Lucet Cordmaking Methods

The 2 thread (and related 3 and 4 thread) method of making lucet cord is my favorite method and I find it easier for beginners to work than than standard 1 thread method. More info on lucet cord methods