Tag: knitting
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Free Machine Knitting Pattern: Sarah in Lace
Hello all, and here’s to another happy day of knitting! Did you see last month’s free hand-knitting pattern, the Sarah in Lace cowl? I am so grateful for all of the wonderful feedback I’ve received about this piece. Thank you all for your support! This month, it’s the machine knitting…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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So you’ve inherited a knitting machine… now what? Starting from Scratch with Machine Knitting.
There are so many things to consider when you find yourself with a knitting machine. What even is it? It says it’s a machine that knits in the name, but how does it do that? What if you don’t hand knit? Where do you find the yarn? How much space…
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