"So we feed it through the thingies, and then through the thingies..." 😆 I've been knitting by hand for 18 years now, and your videos make me want a machine.
I find your perspective so interesting -- the way you talk about yarn is totally different than handknitting. And I'm learning so much! Hope to explore the machine side of things one day.
Did I watch this whole video and enjoy it? Yes. Will I ever buy a knitting machine? Probably not. I just love learning new things and machine knitting is just close enough to hand knitting that I always find your videos fascinating.
Thanks for the video, it was educational. I would be interested in seeing sowmthing similar with your standard guage machine. I got one second hand a couple of years ago and have struggled to find yarns at my nearby craft stores that work with it
Webs and Halcyon yarns online both have some good options for coned yarn, especially wool and wool blends. Michaels stores also have some sock yarns such as Paton's Kroy.
I have an LK150 and knitted a short, raglan sleeve sweater with the Bernat Baby yarn in the color way you have. It is perfect to wear with jeans. I am loving your channel.
Great video. Consider using a spray on wax for your more difficult yarns. I use Ballistol for metal knitter beds and I use Armor All to spray on cotton and other stiff yarn cakes.
For issues like you had with the red nylon spool, you might get a cone thread holder. Dritz makes one, but there are other makers too. I use one to keep spools, cakes, and cones feeding more smoothly into my lk-150 and standard gauge machines. The cone holder has a stem you put the yarn on, and above that is a hook to help feed the yarn to the km mast. Wait, that nylon is in a spool format. I wonder if it would feed ok if it was on a vertical lazy kate like they use for spinning.
Made baby blankets with Mandala Baby double stranded on my bulky machine. Made a nice fabric. Went through four skeins, blanket would’ve been a nicer size with six. Made myself a lap blanket out of the Puzzle yarn in Backgammon color way on my bulky. Great colors, nicely randomized. Curls like crazy, not a surprise.
You will have seen it during the edit, but the red nylon spool toppled over when loops fell beneath it and then tightened around the core of the spool. A plastic net, as comes with any serger, can be pulled over the spool and will prevent loops falling down. With the cotton crochet yarn, I cannot imagine the problem being the tension of the yarn itself because this takes effect rather on circular knits. Even in hand knitting, and certainly on factory-made jersey which is made on a circular knitting machine as a tubular knit. So t-shirts tend to twist up in the wash. But with the to-and-fro movement of the carriage one would expect the effect to compensate itself. I used yarn such as this years ago and it was a horror to knit, but the swatches did not parallelogram on me. I hadn't rewound the ball, though. Maybe it wasn't relaxed on the cake any more.
When rewinding balls, I have had good success using my lazy kate with the yarn spike to keep them from rolling all over. It would probably help with that crochet thread on a tube too. I have the lazy kate from Dreaming Robots. Cheap, and doesn't take up much space when disassembled.
I usually use my LK150 to knit the stockinette parts of otherwise hand knit sweaters, so I mostly use local yarn store yarns. I find that fingering to DK works best on the machine, sometimes a very light worsted. I haven't had issues with most cottons, you just need extra weights on the edges especially. But then again I use sweater cottons, not dishcloth-type cotton.
Great video, I have seen a store crochet style beach cover up but it’s definitely been knit by machine, I wonder if it’s possible to emulate ‘crochet’ on a home knitting machine….
@@KnitFactoryImpl Yeah, that's what I was suspecting from watching. It's so hard to find yarns for the standard gauge machines without ordering it online.
Joann exited bankruptcy on April 30, they're back in business :) okay back to the video
"So we feed it through the thingies, and then through the thingies..." 😆
I've been knitting by hand for 18 years now, and your videos make me want a machine.
I find your perspective so interesting -- the way you talk about yarn is totally different than handknitting. And I'm learning so much! Hope to explore the machine side of things one day.
Did I watch this whole video and enjoy it? Yes. Will I ever buy a knitting machine? Probably not. I just love learning new things and machine knitting is just close enough to hand knitting that I always find your videos fascinating.
Thanks for the video, it was educational. I would be interested in seeing sowmthing similar with your standard guage machine. I got one second hand a couple of years ago and have struggled to find yarns at my nearby craft stores that work with it
Webs and Halcyon yarns online both have some good options for coned yarn, especially wool and wool blends. Michaels stores also have some sock yarns such as Paton's Kroy.
I would watch an entire video of you just running the carriage back and forth. Would you consider doing an ASMR style video of just that?
Check out my garter carriage video th-cam.com/video/PjMUfdc5Mpc/w-d-xo.html
Love the mic XD
I have an LK150 and knitted a short, raglan sleeve sweater with the Bernat Baby yarn in the color way you have. It is perfect to wear with jeans. I am loving your channel.
Great video. Consider using a spray on wax for your more difficult yarns. I use Ballistol for metal knitter beds and I use Armor All to spray on cotton and other stiff yarn cakes.
I've ordered my knitting machine and should have it by next week. Thank you so much for inspiring me to give machine knitting another try!
Thank you so much for this video. Very helpful as are all your videos!
The nylon thread/ yarn I used to make dog leashes
For issues like you had with the red nylon spool, you might get a cone thread holder. Dritz makes one, but there are other makers too. I use one to keep spools, cakes, and cones feeding more smoothly into my lk-150 and standard gauge machines. The cone holder has a stem you put the yarn on, and above that is a hook to help feed the yarn to the km mast.
Wait, that nylon is in a spool format. I wonder if it would feed ok if it was on a vertical lazy kate like they use for spinning.
Very helpful video. Thank you.
Made baby blankets with Mandala Baby double stranded on my bulky machine. Made a nice fabric. Went through four skeins, blanket would’ve been a nicer size with six.
Made myself a lap blanket out of the Puzzle yarn in Backgammon color way on my bulky. Great colors, nicely randomized. Curls like crazy, not a surprise.
Crochet thread is really for doilies and other decor like that. Maybe a tote bag with the red. Size 3 would be for clothing.
A really helpful video. Thank you.
Fun and practical video. Thank you!
You will have seen it during the edit, but the red nylon spool toppled over when loops fell beneath it and then tightened around the core of the spool. A plastic net, as comes with any serger, can be pulled over the spool and will prevent loops falling down.
With the cotton crochet yarn, I cannot imagine the problem being the tension of the yarn itself because this takes effect rather on circular knits. Even in hand knitting, and certainly on factory-made jersey which is made on a circular knitting machine as a tubular knit. So t-shirts tend to twist up in the wash. But with the to-and-fro movement of the carriage one would expect the effect to compensate itself. I used yarn such as this years ago and it was a horror to knit, but the swatches did not parallelogram on me. I hadn't rewound the ball, though. Maybe it wasn't relaxed on the cake any more.
When rewinding balls, I have had good success using my lazy kate with the yarn spike to keep them from rolling all over. It would probably help with that crochet thread on a tube too. I have the lazy kate from Dreaming Robots. Cheap, and doesn't take up much space when disassembled.
I usually use my LK150 to knit the stockinette parts of otherwise hand knit sweaters, so I mostly use local yarn store yarns. I find that fingering to DK works best on the machine, sometimes a very light worsted. I haven't had issues with most cottons, you just need extra weights on the edges especially. But then again I use sweater cottons, not dishcloth-type cotton.
What have been some of the sweater-quality cottons you've liked best?
@@Raven_Snow I really like Malabrigo Caprino and Cascade Ultra Pima.
@@lauraberkholtz7959 thank you!
Great video, I have seen a store crochet style beach cover up but it’s definitely been knit by machine, I wonder if it’s possible to emulate ‘crochet’ on a home knitting machine….
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Great video! Did you wash these swatches just according to the ball band?
Hated the Coboo. The splittiest yarn I’ve ever used. Tried knitting it on my SK860, tried to do hand transferred lace - impossible.
What is the reason for the yarn rules? The reasoning behind the rules?
I feel like the nylon thread would make a good ravel cord?
Maybe in a lighter weight, this is way too thick for ravel cord.
This is amazing! Since you have all of the yarns, do you have plans to try this on one of the brother machines, like the 930/40?
Only one or two of these yarns will work on a standard gauge machine but I might see what else I can find.
@@KnitFactoryImpl Yeah, that's what I was suspecting from watching. It's so hard to find yarns for the standard gauge machines without ordering it online.
Do you have tension recommendations for each yarn tested?
Hallo, why rules ? It is natural, and menmade yarn. It is to big, just fine or tooo fine. 😊please could you, give the tensing.?
Um, I don't see the link to the jumbo yarn winder am I missing it?
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using the Lord"s name in vain put me off immediately. will never watch your videos again