ELY Knits

  • Free Hand-Knitting Pattern: Sarah in Lace

    Free Hand-Knitting Pattern: Sarah in Lace

    Hello all, and happy Friday! Today I’m sharing the first of many patterns on the new site! Meet Sarah in Lace Ideal for hand dyed or natural yarns with slight color gradient, this cowl will let the yarn speak for itself. The simple lace repeat is suitable for confident beginners…

  • Knitting Machine Restoration: Part One

    Knitting Machine Restoration: Part One

    Meet one of my newest machines, the Brother/KnitKing KH-260. It’s a 9mm bulky gauge metal bed machine with punchcard capabilities that can do fair isle, punch lace, tuck, slip stitches, and more. With the right attachments, you can knit intarsia colorwork and ribbing. This machine was definitely on my WANT…

  • Resource Roundup #2: Machine Knitting Etc

    There are so many wonderful machine knitting resources floating around on the internet, but they’re not always easy to find. The Resource Roundup series goes through the links on the Helpful Links and Resources page in more detail to help you discover new places to learn more about machine knitting. What is Machine Knitting…

  • Yarn Review: Universal Cotton Supreme DK

    Yarn Review: Universal Cotton Supreme DK

    Universal Yarn has been offering up yarn of all kinds for more than a decade. I first experienced their yarns in 2012 when looking for washcloth cotton at my old Local Yarn Shop. Their Universal Cotton Supreme worsted weight yarn was just too nice for a dishrag, so I ended…

  • The Basket of Shame

    It started out with good intentions as “the finishing basket” when I was working on inventory before a craft show. I’d knit a few washcloths then finish out the day with a cowl or shawl. I’d put them in the finishing basket and weave in the ends later as I…

  • Resource Roundup: The Answer Lady and Ask Jack

    There are so many wonderful machine knitting resources floating around on the internet, but they’re not always easy to find. The Resource Roundup series will go through the links on the Helpful Links and Resources page in more detail to help you discover new places to learn more about machine…

  • Yarn Review: Lion Brand Ice Cream

    Lion Brand Yarns are commonly found at big box general stores and big box craft stores. You can easily browse their selection on their website, which also features free patterns. The price you see on Lion Brand’s website might not be what you pay in stores, especially since big craft…

  • What Does Brother Punch Card 1M Look Like?

    Punch cards for knitting machines are magical, but have you ever had trouble visualizing the patterns they make? Those holes and spaces don’t translate to much inside my head for anything but fair isle patterns. Even though I know what tuck and skip stitches are, I just can’t see them.…

  • Yarn Review: Silk City Fibers Cotton Bambu

    Silk City Fibers is a wholesale coned yarn retailer that boasts more than 50 types of luxury yarn for knitting and weaving. Known in the past for their 100% rayon chenille yarn, they became part of Orchard Yarn & Thread Company, Inc., better known as Lion Brand Yarn Company in…

  • Finding Machine Knitting Patterns on Ravelry

    From colorwork trends to brioche fads, you can find nearly everything knitting, crochet, or yarn-related on ravelry.com. I’ve been a user for years now, and I can spend hours looking through patterns, projects, and yarn pages. Ravelry has over 600K hand knitting patterns and is quickly closing in on 400K…