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1. margreet Says:
   January 28th, 2010 at

   I have no website. The machine looks exactly like my 1970 bought Brother knitting machine, it takes wool to maximum size 3 mm. needles, but if the wool is course it might have some difficulty sliding the sledges. You will learn how to unpick in the middle of a row after some time(tip: alsways unscrew the carrier, lift the topthing that is attached to the handle, pick up the stitches with the one tongued fork, put in place with the threetongued fork, double check if all the stitches are nicely arranged in the hooks with the tongues of the hooks toward the back! attach the handlepart and knit on. You will get what I mean when you have dropped some stitches. TIP: take some worthless (wrong color) yarn, put on 30 stitches, knit a few rows, drop some stitches in the middle by unhooking and pick them up again, then try the getting the sledge of and pickking up stitches, saves lots of frustration if you have practise in picking up when doing real knitting, trust me, I have been there. I also bought in 1970 a book with many patterns for the macjhine in it,f.i.two coloured work and lacey work, can not find it right now, but if you are inrterested in the title, mail me. I won’t sell, but maybe it is on sale on Internet. I found out last week that the machine does not do cotton, it just is not stretchy enough, the thread broke several times.On hindsight I have not found patterns for machine knitted cotton anywhere, so, do not buy cotton for machineknitting before testing it out thorougly. Maybe half acryl half cotton is stretchy enough. But if you hate knitting with say 2,5 mm needles but would love some knitwork with fine wool, you will have lots of fun. I found casitng on on double the apropiate size needles and then knitting one row, f.i., in k1 p1, and then hanging the stitches on the needles of the machine made for a very nice startrow, casting of by first putting the stitches on a (doublepoint, please,both with cast on and cast of) gave me a nice finished look. No need to say you can knit nice long rectangle strips of any width with all kinds of nearly the same needlesize of wool and acrylics, to use up all your friends sockweight and under leftovers the size of a toddlers cot blanket, hook a few of these together (length or widthwide) and you have a blanket or plaid for f.i. Safe houses for mother and children or Eastern Europe orphans. Do you get the picture? Think three or four rows of pocketbooks laid flat out. You have quick results with just enough handhandling for putting them together to have fun (or maybe somebody else wants to crochet or stitch them together. How do I know, well, it id not work out with cotton for summerplaids, but wool and acryl, oh, lovely how fast all those liitle balls went. If you have say half a skeins weight of leftovers you just use the full or almost the full amount of needles (200) for a one piece blankie. Just remember to crochet aroun a fer rows, otherwise it will always have rollseams (Eastern Europe orphanages don’t have time to block) And.. you can easy peasy make Clapotis like patterns, just unhook the needles you want to drop, then after two rows hook them on again, your dropped stitches will look fine if you do it this way, by just unhooking and not putting them back again you will only get a nasty ladder. I am sorry this comment got this long, but it is so nice learning of somebody who does not hate knittingmachines. The price is very good too and I would have sent you the manuals with translation if you had not found them already. I do at least 95 percent of knitting by hand, but there are situations machineknitting is just fine. Fine wool that felts extremely good, handknitted purse? And , as I said, for using up thinner wool leftovers for blankies. I live at the 53 degree in the Netherlands, I think that is about Birmingham in yourcountry, loads of snow lately. Have fun with your machine, I am waiting patiently for a picture of some machine knitted item in future. Beware though, friends seem to have lots of leftover little balls of wool, maybe a workshop evening of machineknitting for them to knit up their own wool into a blankie might not be a bad idea, after all, there are tons of little balls of wool in attics, it is amazing how they tend to turn up for something useful when word gets around.

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