I hope you’re all well and ready to greet the new year with fulfilling yarny goals and intentions.
Here’s where you can help me out–
Please send me links to your favorite Machine Knitting resources!
Whether it’s a forum, a Discord server, a YouTube channel, a designer’s page, or a website, I’d like to know about it! Leave a comment, send me a message on social media, fill out my contact form… look to see if I actually make a post asking for input on r/machineknitting like I’ve been telling myself I will any day now…
With the addition of -AI to searches, and let’s be honest, searches haven’t always had the clearest results when it comes to machine knitting, well…
I’d like to see what everyone else is up to and reconnect with the machine knitting world!
I’ll be adding the links to my Resource page as well as organizing the site a bit differently.
Here’s hoping 2026 is a better year than 2025!
(For the record, I have not and will never knowingly use any sort of -AI to write any of my content. All of this awkward, stilted wording is just me, myself, and an English degree that proves I know the rules but choose to ignore them.
It’s not technically a knitting machine accessory, but it sure does make life easier! If you don’t use one already, consider getting a craft cart to help organize your machine knitting tools and accessories.
I use a three tiered craft cart to keep my weights, carriages, and accessories organized and contained while I work.
I’m a bit scatterbrained on the best of days, so having a system where everything has its place really helps me stick to a task without distractions. I’m much less likely to lose things when I have a system.
This cart used to be organized with one tier for each gauge and a miscellaneous hand knitting tier when I started machine knitting with just a Brother KH890 and a Passap Bulky Eight, but my collections have a tendency to grow, so I plan on setting up one cart per machine gauge–standard, mid, and bulky.
I keep my most frequently used bits in the top drawer of the cart and use small makeup pouches or pencil cases to keep things like scrap yarn, ravel cord, and safety pin style stitch markers separate.
The middle tier holds plating and ribber accessories …
… and so does the bottom tier. If those ribber weights are on a tabletop somewhere, I can guarantee you they’ll find their way to landing on my foot, so those things get corralled!
My cart doesn’t always look this organized. Of course I cleaned it up for pictures! I often use clip boards or binders to keep my patterns and notes contained, so they float between tiers. Post-It notes with ideas and pattern modifications get scribbled and stuck to the nearest surface so I can continue working with fewer distractions.
I use a metal tilt stand for my standard gauge machine, and it has a shelf for the lid that I use to store the cast-on combs. My LK150 sits on a table or a counter, so I’m looking at a cart with a pegboard-style organization system that hangs down the side.
I’m currently using a lop-sided trash can that was slightly crushed in our move to keep my mid-gauge accessories in one place, so whatever system you decide to use, I’m definitely not going to be judging it.
It’s just important to have one!
How do you organize your knitting machine accessories? Do you have any suggestions for my system? Let me know in the comments below or contact me!
Thanks for reading and joining me on my machine knitting journey!
Anna has a tutorial about using a KnitLeader with the LK 150! How awesome is that?
She also has project videos with really clever ways to work fair isle among other things. I’ve been watching her channel a lot lately, and she might be my favorite machine knitting YouTuber!
Diana’s channel features beginner lessons along with cast-on, cast-off, and edging videos.
This pinwheel baby blanket was one of my very first machine knitting projects. (Her channel doesn’t allow embedding videos, so there won’t be a preview for this one.)
You may know the channel from the Ask Jack machine maintenance videos, but channel also includes pattern tutorials, tips, and tricks. I’ve seen Circular Sock Machine tutorials recently, too!
In addition to her books, Susan Guagliumi has Craftsy videos! Not all of them are on uploaded to YouTube, but if you’re looking to see if her Craftsy content is worth it, and I’ve had many people tell me it definitely is, check out her channel!
Sue at Knit It NOW has a wonderful website with a yearly subscription that she introduces on her channel. You can have a free membership with access to some of her content on her website, but YouTube is still a good way to browse some of what you can find at her main site. (Her channel doesn’t allow embedding videos, so there won’t be a preview for this one.)
While in-person learning will always be my learning preference, I love finding new machine knitting video resources!
Who am I missing? I’d love to watch your favorite machine knitting YouTubers.
Thanks for tagging along with me on my machine knitting journey!
Sometimes you just want to scroll the internet and see what others are doing with their knitting machines. You might use Facebook groups or your Instagram feed, but what about Pinterest?
I’ve used Pinterest since it began in 2010. I planned my wedding by making mood boards and plotted out interior designs for our first house. Now I use it for nail art inspiration, bullet journaling spreads, hair styling tips, and yes, machine knitting.
Pinterest’s machine knitting recommendations for me
I’ve been making stockings lately, so I searched Pinterest for punchcard patterns.
search results for machine knitting punchcards
Not bad! But I should’ve specified “Christmas punchcards”….
Sometimes Pinterest gets hand knitting, machine knitting, crocheting, and other yarn crafts confused, but that’s okay!
They’re at least knitting charts!
Don’t be upset if your search brings up hand knitting or even cross stitch charts! Remember that you can hand transfer lots of lace patterns and hand select colorwork patterns, so even if a chart wasn’t originally meant for the knitting machine, you can still put it to good use!
You can check out my Machine Knitting board on Pinterest here and follow it if you want.
my machine knitting board
What sites do you use to find machine knitting inspiration or patterns? I’m always on the lookout for new inspiration!
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