Machine knitting techniques

General Videos and Techniques by Subject Matter

Gauge | Miscellaneous | Tools | Useful articles about machine knitting | Yarn

Gauge

• Converting between machine gauges
• Converting sweater patterns to fit your swatch gauge
• Estimating knitting gauge using WPI
• Gauge conversion using Excel
• Gauge hints
• Grand unified yarn theory
• Gauge: The truth about gauge, the vagaries of gauge
• How to knit a gauge swatch
• Knitting gauge tutorial #1
• Knitting gauge tutorial #2
• Patterns for machine knitters (how to check gauge against a handknit pattern)
• Stitch analyses
• Swatch calculation tool
• Yarn conversion chart

Miscellaneous

• 2 teeth claw weight
• Abbreviations used in knitting machine patterns
• Another way to do the thumb on a mitten
• Another way to measure your swatch
• Beading on km with wire
• Charting - how to chart and proof straight line shaping
• Charting in excel
• Converting stitch and row gauge in knitting
• Creating a pattern from a garment
• Creating knit graph paper with a Mac and Excel
• Customfit - design your own sweater online
• Daisyknits hints and tips
• Foreign language mk channels
• Hague linker looper set up
• Hobbyknitter's videos
• Install a zipper into knitting
• Interactex - some interesting MK techniques
• Jim's knitting companion
• Knitmaster Weavemaster demo *NEW*
• Knitting machine hacking - how I helped bootstrap the movement
• Knitting machine tips
• Knittsing's 100+ MK videos
• Lego knitting machine
• Lots of machine knitting videos in Russian
• Machine embroidery on knitted fabric
• Machine knitting videos (Russian)
• Matching gauges of knitting patterns
• Narrow rolled neckband finish for a round neck
• Reading an intarsia chart
• Reading a lace chart
• Sewing machines for sewing sweater knits
• Silver needles electric cone winder
• Sizes for making various items
• Sleeve holes and armscye calculations
• Slick tricks
• Standard bed and blanket sizes
• Striptease knitting
• Swatching
• Swatching for all machines
• Turn your knitting using a stiff wire
• Using a large ball of yarn without rewinding
• Using a schematic to design your own pattern
• V-bed basic techniques
• V-Bed Techniques - 10 Gauge Universal Knitting Machine
• Winding yarn on a cardboard cone

Tools

• Build your own mast
• Cone holder
• Cover for your knitting machine
• DIY cast on comb
• DIY decker comb
• DIY transfer tools for midgauge machines
• Home-made Bond yarn mast
• Home-made cast on bar
• Home-made claw weights
• How to make a knitting machine weight
• How to make a needle holder
• How to make a leash for your bodkin
• How to use blocking wires
• Knit contour
• Knitting calculators
• Knitting machine tilt stand
• Knitting machine weights
• Labelling cast on rags
• Labelling your knitting machine parts
• Make do needle pushers
• Make your own garter bar
• Make your own swift
• Make your own weights
• Making custom mylars
• Making ribber covers
• Manual yarn changer
• Passap knitting machine drop stitch tool
• Silver Needles cone winder
• Turning your work with a handknitting needle
• Using a drill to make i-cord
• Using the Brother hinged comb on any knitting machine
• Using the de-knit tool
• Using the garter bar on the knitting machine
• Using the yarn brake
• USM cast on rag (video)

Useful Articles About Machine Knitting

• Demystifying knitting machines
• Garter bar tutorial
• Handknitting and machine knitting - differences and similarities
• How to alter knitting patterns
• How to make a sweater on a machine, handknitter's guide - part 1, part 2
• How to pick the best knitting machine for you
• How to use your tilt table
• Introduction and basic techniques
• Japanese pattern charting
• Machine gauges - a rough guide
• Machine knitting abbreviations
• Machine knitting to dye for
• Needle positions on a machine bed
• Pattern drafting by height
• Selecting your knitting machine
• Uses for i-cord
• Weaving in the ends
• What is a knitting machine?

Yarn

• Different yarns for different knitting machines
• How to calculate WPI (wraps per inch)
• Machine knitting yarns info
• Some facts about yarns
• Yarn 101
• Yarn preparation
• Yarn Standards
• Yarn Standards (USM/ISM/LK150)
• Yarn substitution made easy
• Yarn tensions
• Yarn thicknesses and counts
• Yarn weight systems (Aboutknittingmachines)
• Yarn weights (Diana Natters)
• Yarn weights (Halycon Yarn)
• Yarn weights (Knitpicks)
• Yarn weights/WPI
• Yarn winder tutorial *NEW*