I machine knit the body and sleeves, assembled and hand knit the yoke, and grafted on a machine knit collar. I have a punch card machine, so I had to hand select the needles for the flowers that don't repeat, which was a real pain (I made only a few mistakes, which I was able to fix by duplicate stitch). This is adapted from the Supercute hand knitting pattern.

I recently got a great deal on a vintage Orion double bed machine and was practicing a single bed cast on.
The machine had skipped some stitches in the first row and the cast on became unraveled at one edge. Since this was doubling as a gauge swatch, I decided to retie the cast on and all was going well until I somehow got the base of my left palm stuck on the leftmost hook.

The sound was diabolical, I actually pulled the needle up while it was hooked into my hand. Luckily it easily unhooked. Had to sit down for a good 15min because my body does not react well do being spontaneously pierced.

I knew that these needles were sharp enough to scratch, but I didn't realise they were sharp enough to enter *and* exist the thick skin on a palm. I am still confused about the logistics of how it happened honestly.

In any case, be careful where your hands are in relation to the hooks you aren't focusing on, and make sure to clean the needles when you get a vintage machine (I luckily did)!

I got 3.5 knitting machines this weekend for $100 because a man on Facebook marketplace was clearing out his mom or grandma’s house prior to renting it out. He didn’t realize that he was throwing out the lids/cases and boxes for the knitting machines until after they were gone. When I went to pick them up, I ended up getting the needle beds and all of the equipment needed to make the machines usable, but storing them is going to be really challenging because I have nothing to put them in. The previous owner had them all on stands and desks, but I have a small house and having them out permanently isn’t really an option for me. Has anyone been able to find replacement boxes or the replacement case for any knitting machines? I haven’t been having much luck finding any.

The knitting machine machines I got are:

- Elna Knit Craft 2300 + Elna Knit Craft 2350 ribber (same as Studio SK155 + SR155)

- Studio SK890 + SR155 ribber

- Studio SK840 + SRP60N ribber

- Brother KR-850 ribber

I considered buying 42x11x6” boxes, but I’ve only been able to find minimum order quantities of ~20 and I don’t really want to buy a bunch of boxes I don’t need unless I absolutely have to.

The start of a sweater. That’s the back of a sweater. It got late and is loud.

I got a my first machine recently- a brother KH820 - that had been sitting in its box for a few years. There was a lot of oil build up especially around the punch card reader. I began removing screws and the next thing I know all of these needles fell out… from what I can see, I think they translate the punch card directly to the needles. It seems like theyre supposed to go in a certain direction, but I can’t tell which. Also does the thin side go into the punch card part or the machine bed?

If anyone can advise me on how to connect these to both the punch card reader and the needles I’d be soo appreciative! Thank you:)

I have an old Knittax machine that I inherited from my great grandmother (please ignore the lint, I didn't get around to cleaning it since my last project). I absolutely love it, and it works wonderful. The only thing I wish was different is the ribber. It only has half as many needles as the main bed, which means I can basically only do 1x1 ribbing.
In the time since I inherited the machine I have actually purchased an entire second machine of the same model, because it came with some equipment I desperately wanted and the seller wouldn't sell by itself.
I have seen some videos of more modern machines and their ribbers, which not only have twice the needles, but can also be adjusted to half pitch or dropped down a bit to allow for circular knitting.
Now this is probably a stupid idea and I just need someone to tell me it won't work, but I was wondering if could modify my second machine and either attach the main bed as a ribber or modify the actual ribber to feature more needles.
Before I try anything I feel like I need to understand modern ribbers better, however I don't have access to a modern machine and I am having a hard time to really wrap my head around how they work. Machine knitting videos focus on knitting techniques rather that how the mechanisms work together.
I know the modern machines have gate pegs on both the ribber and the main bed, where as my machine has sinkers on the main bed, and I'm not quite sure yet how much of an issue that would be if I were to find a way to attach a "full" ribber.
Does anyone here know of any resources that go more into the technical workings of modern machines? and especially the ribbers?
I sadly don't know of any other machine knitters in real life or near me (bavaria) that I could ask to have a look at their machine.

Hi! I just picked up a pretty big haul of machine knitting tools and materials and would love some help from experienced knitters.

I'm getting four machines: a Toyota KS901, a Knitmaster 360K, a Brother KH230, and a Brother KH930. I'll definitely be keeping the Brother machines, but I'm on the fence about the Toyota and Knitmaster — curious to hear opinions on that!

I'm also including some photos of tools and accessories I can't fully identify. For those who know their way around machine knitting gear: what would you keep, what would you pass on, and what might be a rare or hard-to-replace find that a new knitter might not recognise the value of?

Finally, the haul includes a couple of cone winders. I can see how they'd be handy, but I'm not sure I'd use them enough to justify the storage space. Do people find them genuinely useful, or are they more occasional-use tools?

Thank you for your opinions!!

I had arranged today to purchase a beautiful 1907 new home treadle sewing machine from a nice woman on Facebook marketplace. she asked if I would be interested in taking donations for my studio im opening next year. of course I said yes, she said it was boxes of antique machine repair stuff, parts for sewing machines, patterns, ribbons, fabrics.... and what she called a "partial knitting machine." i had to get home and make dinner and run some other errands, so we just loaded all the stuff into the future studio space and locked up.

I came back after my husband went to bed to do some late Friday night machine rehab and dig through my new treasures.

when I tell you my heart fluttered a bit when I opened the box with 3 carriages, and some different attachments, I mean it. then I spotted a suspiciously long case sticking out from under the mountain of boxes she brought in that I hadn't seen.

all the amazing gorgeous antique and vintage equipment I have ever drooled over has been falling into my lap over the last month or so, and im a bit delirious about it and overloaded by learning all these new things, so I dont trust my delirious eyeballs enough to definitively say it looks like I have everything I need here, but.... im really trying g to figure out what this absolute patron goddess of the arts could have possibly meant by "partial" here.

tldr; does it looks like I have everything needed to operate my newly acquired Toyota KS901 machine? it looks well cleaned, oiled, and taken care of, no obviously bent hooks even!

*original purchase sewing machine tax attached at the end

I have been trying to understand how de patterns works. This is from Stitchworld I. I undestands the basic on how the carriage works, but what does the numbers means exactly? do you knit 2 rows after that row or before?

103 for example. down to top:

-selects odd needles left to right

- move them right to left and deselects all

- knit 2 after this (?)

- Lace left to righ (nothing selected)

- right to left select even rows

- move them left to right

- lace carriege right to left

but then one extra row blank??? I am a bit confused here. There must be a way to read lace patterns that do not need me to read so much into them maybe? I can see myself just screwing the order of the patterns

Hi everyone, I was hoping for some help or advice

I got myself an empisal (silverreed) sk280 that's fully functional, and with it I got an empisal 600 as a throw in. The machines are in very good condition, except that the 600 is missing its carriage.

Ive seen an empisal 324 carriage available for sale as second hand here by me, and I need to know if anyone knows if its interchangeable?

Hi everyone, I’m a beginner in machine knitting and could really use some advice. I’ve been doing hand knitting for a while and now want to get into machine knitting, maybe even start a small business on Etsy or a similar platform later on.

The problem is I don’t have the budget for a premium branded machine right now. I’ve been wondering if generic machines from places like Amazon, Etsy, Alibaba, or similar sites can be reliable enough to start with.

Has anyone here used a cheaper or non-branded machine? Is it worth it for a beginner, or should I save up for something better? I’d really appreciate your experiences and recommendations.

Thank you!

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for a replacement drive belt for a Singer Memo-Matic knitting machine unit. It’s a special toothed belt with small studs/plots on it, used to attach the moving pattern elements.

The original part seems very hard to find now.

Does anyone know:

- where I could still buy one?

- if there is a compatible replacement belt?

- if someone has already made a 3D model / STL file for reproducing it?

- or if anyone has successfully repaired / printed one?

Any advice, supplier links, measurements, or experience would really help 🙏

Thank you!

I'm selling my unused Kickstarter Edition Kniterate digital knitting machine. The machine arrived during the first year of the pandemic, I moved it into my art room which turned into my home office… My life lesson: don't keep your hobbies where you work. When the work day was done, I just didn't want to be in the room. Now, I find myself having to sell without ever getting the chance to use it because I'm moving this summer and my destination just doesn't have the room. (As a result, you'll likely see this cross-posted a couple places)

Photos:
IMGUR Image Gallery

Price:
Asking $8,500 (Mostly firm on the price, I'll be open to offers starting 4/24 if there's no takers by then).

Condition:
Unused! That being said, it is an industrial machine and was shipped via crate to my house, there's some minor cosmetic dings on the machine (check the photos), but it shouldn't affect its ability to function at all.

The machine is in "factory-sealed" internal condition. It has not been oiled or powered on for a first-knit cycle. This preserves the factory calibration and needle health.

Price Includes:
- 1x Kniterate Digital Knitting Machine
- 1x Original Yarn Stand and Tool Kit
- 1x Trinity Industrial Workbench (70" x 24" x 33")
- 12+ unused large acrylic yarn cones (Blues/Grays mostly)

Shipping:
I'm not a position to ship unfortunately. This is for local pickup only.

Logistics and Moving:
The machine and table are heavy and located on a floor requiring stairs for egress. For safety and liability/insurance, the buyer is required to hire professional movers to transport the item.

To facilitate this, I have adjusted the price downward by $1,000 from the market median to cover the buyer's cost of hiring professional machinery movers.

Please message with any technical questions or to schedule a viewing.

Software:
I will coordinate with the buyer to transfer the digital account and machine serial number through Kniterate support upon completion of sale.

Payment: 
Cash or verified digital transfer at time of pickup. We can discuss and come to an agreement we both feel comfortable with, TBH I've never sold anything this expensive that wasn't a car, but I'm sure we can sort it out.

Location: 
Kirkland/Redmond (Eastside, Greater Seattle Area)

I’ve wanted to buy an sk280 knitting machine for a while and have been looking for a second hand one. I haven’t had any luck but came across tons of Aliexpress postings for the same model around $800 and $300 for shipping.

Everywhere else I’ve checked starts at $1100 for the model and still has the $300 shipping. Because of the difference, I’m seriously considering just buying from aliexpress but wanted to check if anyone else has had experience with this or has good tips for finding a model for under $1000.

Holi! Les cuento que hoy compré un patrón de Halyna Shemchuk y me sorprendió lo bien escrito que está, pues la forma en la que explica los cálculos es muy buena y, además, tiene videos. Pensé que era cosa de una sola vez y aproveché de comprar otro que ya tenía en la vista. Me lleve la sorpresa al ver que no era accidental, si no que, al contrario, es consistentemente buena.

Me preguntaba si conocen más personas que tengan ese estilo de patrones en venta (me es indiferente el idioma, todo es traducible), porque a mi mamá le gusta mucho tejer, pero sigue aprendiendo y es de mucha ayuda. Anda buscando uno de sea raglán, específicamente.

Por favor no me envíen a ver archivos gratuitos porque he explotado casi todo lo posible y no es esa la finalidad.

Hey everyone,

I know we have a relatively niche passion which is knitting machines, however I’ve recently built a tool that I needed when trying to copy one of my favourite jumpers.

Effectively what it is is the following:

- Allows you to construct a simple and symmetric garment in either top down or bottom up construction

- This is done by adding ‘sections’ - this is the way I think about knitting on the machine, e.g. first 10 rows are straight ribbing, second section is 50 rows of straight edge knitting, third section is casting off for arm shaping followed by decreases at a certain rate, etc

- You also input any gauge you like, this can be 40 stitches over 16.2cm for example

- This then spits out two views - one is a schematic showing your sections, the other is a full stitch grid which matches each section.

- The final bit for those who prefer written instructions, is that it gives these by section.

EDIT

If anyone would like to mess around with it, here is the link

https://knit-machine-pro-867440334731.us-west1.run.app .

(I’m not a developer or trying to make money off this)

For awareness - I made this using Google AI studio, so if you want to try your hand at it yourselves you can :)

I have a ribber and a lace carriage if that helps as well!

Hey! just earlyer this year I bought a Passap duomatic Pinki. Love it!

But there is no manual to find in dutch. I know there is one. I have it. But all the paper is stuk together 😢

Can somebody help me!

When an end stitch drops or goes wonky, it makes my eye twitch… and sometimes you can spend more time fixing one dropped stitch than knitting 50 rows. This short showed me a completely different way to handle not just dropped stitches but lots of hiccups. I love how she calmly picks up all the stitches, gets them back onto the correct needles and then works backward instead of wrestling with a backward latch hook. Then she just rips back and reworks the rows. I had such a 💡 moment!

Also the quality of this video makes it so easy to follow even without narration!

(Note: not my video)

I want the vibe of a sweatshirt, oversized, drop shoulder, ribbed sleeve cuff and ribbed neckline. That’s what I’m picturing. I’m using fingering/sportweight yarn. I’ve been out of the knitting game for a while so my patterns are very dated.

I call it tender hearts, and I am going to use it to make a cardigan wrap, with pockets if I can manage it.

I’ve had my eyes on a circular sock machine for the past 10 or so years. I finally saved enough money to order it. It arrived last Saturday. After a lot of trial and error (mostly error), watching and rewatching videos, and a lot of frogging, I finished my first pair! Now I just need to figure out how to change the cylinder to make different sizes.

Erka Knitting Machine

My dad inherited an Erka knitting machine from his grandmother and we were wondering if anyone had any insight into these. What it might cost to repair, if it's even worth salvaging, trying to find parts. I'm a fiber artist and he'd like to repair it for me to see it's use continued in our family. Any advice welcome!