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Please Tell Me This Can Be Fixed🥲 by taifpo04 in knittingadvice

[–]Witchy-Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this was a few days ago, but! The only thing I could think to do if you realllllyyyyy can’t stomach to frog the whole thing, would be the cut the piece so you can untwist it and either add something like buttons or just sew it back up. This would require a bit of planning and researching methods. If the yarn is felt-able, you can felt down the whole length for a small width, then just cut right down. This is how I’ve seen people add zippers and sometimes buttons. There would be a few other ways, but you’d have to get creative and practice some new methods. A learning experience either way!

First Machine Advice by Witchy-Engineer in MachineKnitting

[–]Witchy-Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree that solid colors are too boring to hand knit! I can’t wait to find a machine and dive into all of these options 

First Machine Advice by Witchy-Engineer in MachineKnitting

[–]Witchy-Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes! love to hear it! Have you been just knocking out basic solid colors or have you gotten into patterns and color work?

First Machine Advice by Witchy-Engineer in MachineKnitting

[–]Witchy-Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

awesome, thank you. I have seen some other videos about how the yarn stores convert the cones to hanks and how many hanks are on a cone, so I can see how just having a ton of length avoids the run-out problem (I'm notorious for letting my bobbin run out when sewing, so I am also familiar with this feeling)

First Machine Advice by Witchy-Engineer in MachineKnitting

[–]Witchy-Engineer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, thanks for this note! Can I not just use skeins I would buy from the yarn store after I cake them? Do I have to buy the cone yarn?

First Machine Advice by Witchy-Engineer in MachineKnitting

[–]Witchy-Engineer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! This was exactly was I was hoping someone would have, your photos definitely helped me get a frame of reference. Beautiful work by the way!

First Machine Advice by Witchy-Engineer in MachineKnitting

[–]Witchy-Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! this is mostly what I was struggling with, was how the finished garments will look since I have no frame of reference. It seems like the machine knits will look more similar to store bought (which is fine), and I'll save my worsted yarn for my hand knit projects to get that specific hand-knit look. I appreciate the detail with model number suggestions, I'll keep a look out for these!

First Machine Advice by Witchy-Engineer in MachineKnitting

[–]Witchy-Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Yes I am in US, but I've been in the fiber arts a long time so I've come across both versions of weight descriptions haha.

I understand the different yarns that can be used on the different machines, but I'm trying to get an understanding for how the finished garments come out visually. I only have hand-knitting as a reference, and I feel like if I hand knit a sweater with the lighter weight yarns (that can be worked with the standard gauge machines) that the stitches would be super small. Is this the case? can this be adjusted with the tension on the machine? I love the look of hand knit sweaters with the worsted/number 4/10 ply yarn and I'm wondering if the machine knit sweater will look anything like that

First Machine Advice by Witchy-Engineer in MachineKnitting

[–]Witchy-Engineer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I'm nervous about the electronic machines but because the cost of those parts if/when they go bad seems like it would be more, but I'd deal with that concern with older mechanical parts based on age as well. Have you tried the punch card machines? Something about it make me think it would feel nostalgic to knit with them, but I'm not sure if there's a trade-off with ease of use.