Tag: tutorial
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Your YARN is the Problem — Part One: Hand Knitting Yarn Prep
You might have encountered one of these problems before: the yarn stopped flowing through the tension unit and the tension wire bent all the way towards the carriage and needle bed, the carriage jammed, an entire row knitted at a much tighter tension than you wanted, the yarn broke. If you…
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Yarn Plating and the SilverReed LK150
Plating takes yarns that might not be suitable on their own for your machine and makes working with them possible.
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The Doodle Beanie — Free Machine Knitting Pattern
I was playing around on my Silver Reed LK150 a while back and came up with this simple beanie that begs to be customized. This hat has a folded brim and a cinched crown that would look great with an added pompom. It’s just a rectangle, but it’s the perfect…
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Free Step-by-Step Wristwarmer Pattern
Happy New Year, everyone! You might recognize this stitch from my Using The Needle Beetle with Bonus Baby Blanket Recipe post. I received a few requests for a step-by-step tutorial (a few of which were tied up in spam filters, so my apologies to those of you who haven’t received…
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Stuck without a Ravel Cord? Try this!
Ravel cord is a strong and slippery-smooth braided nylon that machine knitters use to connect scrap yarn pieces knitted from the cast-on up with the main yarn of the garment in a way that can be easily removed. After the hem has been hung and the main yarn stitches have…
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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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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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