Today, the lovely Jules came around and gave me an introductory lesson in machine knitting. I learned about casting on, tension... and then we had a bit of a play with the punch-cards for the patterned stitches..... 
..which ended rather badly. 
More research is necessary, into exactly what that little loose cog I found is for and why the machine goes CRUNCH when doing anything but stocking stitch... (I think there may be a bit of a cause-and-effect thing going on there).
I'm still a bit excited by the stocking stitch thing, though..... I went home and knitted a 1.5 metre cotton scarf. I'll see what it looks like when it's dyed.
How amazing... to make fabric.....There will be more of this.
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sorry to add to temptation, BUT.... if you use yarn suitable for dying and make up as machine knitted piece and then dye the fabric, and then unravel it to hand-knit it into something else you can get slow colour changes rather than the random blotches with yarn that is dyed as yarn.
You've got a cog loose!?!?
Cheers,
AJ
You are going to love this, I think! I'm a knitter for YEARS! Synnøve from Norway
Oh my goodness I am excited for you! How fun!
I bought a red and white stripey machine knitted scarf off a lovely lady on the weekend who was raving about the process. X
Hail fellow MK traveller! Welcome to the exciting frustrating, amazing adventures of steel and yarn. Good luck with the cog locating business, sounds problematic?!
Way. Cool.
Probably a bit hard to use for knitting in the car though...
oooh, that looks so very fun
I hav a knitting machine sitting in my sewing room, but no space to actually set her up :( I had this dream of creating my own felted embelishments ... but other things got in the way!
Wow it looks like great fun except for the loose cog that is .
Oh no, you didn't! Knitting machines seem to be coming back into vogue, I have a friend who uses hers to make wool fabric (you need to stabilise it a bit before cutting out your pattern). Fantastic idea though! Makes me wish my Mum didn't give hers away all those years ago..... :)
Am jealous I have always wanted tp learn how to machine knit need a friend like yours methinks.
I'm so proud of you!! Well done, you're a great student ; ) looking forward to seeing where it takes you...
xx
I'm sure that by the time I have mine all dusted off and set up again, I'll be able to come to you for lessons.
Congratulations. Knitting machine is a very cool thing.
ahhh memories!
I've got the same machine (it's a 313 right?) and mine goes crunch on anything but stocking stitch too! Perhaps it's a "feature" of that model?
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