As I am falling deep down in the rabbit hole of watching videos about machine knitting, I found your channel just a few weeks ago and today youtube recommended this video to me. As a hand knitter who has always been interested in machine knitting, but never took a go at it, I am very fast getting more fascinated by every video I watch. And now this...! This is genius! Don't think I need any more convincing 😊
I am so happy I was recommended your videos because I find them perfect! I find you are able to explain to me in terms that make sense to me. I need to understand how the machine works in my mind before I can understand it. I am not a hand knitter and that's why I am now looking for a used knitting machine. For some reason I have issues with knitting where I do not have with crochet. It could be that I was taught crochet first. IDK! Keep up the great videos.
this hybrid hand and machine knit sweater is so creative and genius! thank you for walking us through both the creative and also planning/math process! 🫶🏻 can’t wait to try this!!
this is widely done in Shetland. Has been done since knitting machines were invented. They do the fabulous knitting by hand for the yokes and on the machine for the remainder.
Love it! I excelled in math but found that I couldn’t take it all day long. I am an administrative assistant and love my job. For next year I have been thinking to combine your body sock with mermaid flippers. We live in a climate that is cool for Halloween but not snowy.
Next time you could try taking it off the machine and knitting the rib on circular or straight needles. This is what I have done with my current project. The sleeve and bottom ribs knitted with 3.5mm straight needles. The neck required circular needles; and as I didn't have that size, I used 4mm. As the garment is for a baby I figure this should be okay. 😊
Thank you for posting this, your sweater is gorgeous! I made my first sweater bottom up starting with a provisional cast on for the sleeves and front and back and I knitted all the ribbing by hand because I wasn't happy with the way my samples of the latched ribbing looked. The second one I want to try the lace yoke is knitted downwards, so seeing your video helped me see the process involved! Oh and I found I could knit a 2 ply Shetland fingering weight (Harrisville Shetland) on the LK150, but I had to go right down in tension, my tension on the dial was at 2 and my antenna was at 3 and it matched my hand knitting gauge in stocking stitch at a size 2 needle and I think I used a 0 for the ribbing - though my hand knitting tends to be one needle size down from many patterns.
Wow this is so amazing! I actually bought my LK150 to do exactly this, but I’m not a machine knitter and I’ve only been knitting for about 3 years now so not super experienced. For my project (this did work but it wasn’t 100% perfect), I ended up knitting the sleeves on the machine bottom up, seaming them and then Kitchener stitching them to my yoke. I’m pretty excited to try this method for my next sweater, thanks so much for making this video!!!
I've only been machine knitting a little longer than you have! It's totes possible to learn all of this. When I make these on the machine, I knit them bottom up and then do the yoke on the machine too, no need for kitchener stitch.
Great seeing you combine both hand & machine knitting and showing how you worked through the math for your self drafted pattern, it turned out awesome. I’m knitting the Alaska hat (HK pattern) on my KH890, made a punchcard for the fair isle, just got to workout how to do the decreases for the crown now….
I have gotten interested in machine knitting recently because I would love to do this type of project, I gave myself nasty carpal tunnel in my early 20s hand knitting too much. Anyways if you are interested in hand knitting books that have formulas and design tips for sweaters rather than traditional patterns, Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Without Tears is a classic for bottom-up and Knitting from the Top by Barbara G. Walker is good for top-down. I'm not super plugged in to the knitting world these days so I am sure there are updated tutorials out there as well!
Such a cute sweater! I would have made it longer, but that length is cute on you! Great job! All that math tho!🫨 I would have been in tears trying to figure it out!😆
As someone that has taken (and passed!) a lot of math courses during my degree, and yet find math impossible if not every little step is on paper; you may have the same problem that I do. A bad memory for numbers, it is apparantly its own seperate thing. I have had the same phone number for 15+ years, and still have trouble recalling it. My memory is otherwise fine, but numbers does not work.
Awesome ! I just ordered my knitting machine LK 150 and I should be receiving it in about a week and I’m so excited! I’m currently binge watching all your videos, thank you so much!
This was so incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for the explanation with the instruction. I have just started the machine knit adventure and am looking forward to someday actually making something ;)
Great job. This is what got me into MK. I attempted once, but the sweater ended up to small. So much for my great math skills. Learned a lot from your video. As I am new to AYAB, I would like to try the full sweater on the machine. Thank you for your great videos and content.
Lovely sweater! It was wonderful to see how to combine hand knitting and machine knitting together. I'm thinking more and more about a knitting machine to try a different style of knitting 🧶
Thank you for showing how to do this on your single bed machine. I have only done complete sweaters on the machine, although I would hand knit the ribbing. As you pointed out the machine knit stitch is shorter than a hand knit stitch, this might explain why the ribbing looked bigger than the body even though I used smaller needles for the hand ribbing.
Nice work, sweater looks so pretty on you! I've done many of these, although my preferred method is upside and backwards from this. I prefer bottom up for colorwork and I machine knit all the parts, including the short rows at armhole area, scrapped off, and put on needle for the handknit colorwork yoke. I match my handknit gauge to the machine gauge. Always enjoy your videos!
Your sweater is lovely. Your math is very helpful. You may enjoy, and knit faster, by hand knitting in a continental style. Of course not faster than the machine. I hav just started combining hand and machine knitting. Thank you for this helpful video.
I was going to suggest the same thing - two color knitting by hand is much faster (and I keep the tension much more even) when holding one color in each hand. ruclips.net/video/wJph4N6aqFs/видео.html
I am making a colorwork knit poncho. Its gonna be my biggest colorwork & knitting project ever. I was eyeing Halloween sweaters like yours , maybe my next knitwear project will be a skull sweater!
This is something I really want to try. I had planned on doing it with my current vintage cardigan project, but I chickened out because I havent really got the knack of my knitting machine lol. Hopefully I can figure it out for the next one - plain stockinette can be so tedious to hand knit!
Excellent video! I’m a hand knitter who is learning machine knitting on the LK150. I’m in the process of hanging the body of a sweater on the machine, after hand knitting the yoke. The way you bound off your yoke caught my attention. You did a P2TFL, so you decreased. Why is that? Im trying to understand the best way to accomplish this technique of hanging my hand knitting. I liked the contrast of your way, and how clearly the stitches could be seen.
@@KnitFactoryImpl ok, great, I like it! Just trying to find how to do it 🤓. In the video you called the bind off method a “Purl 2 together, through the front loop .” Could there be another name for the bind off technique? Anyone who may know what the bo is called, please chime in. 😊
I have a degree in math and I just had to rip back a whole section of a hand knit hat's decreases because I thought to myself 80/5=20 and didn't notice that is wildly incorrect until I had completely finished the hat and was looking at the spirals on the top. 😭
This is really cool! I'm curious whether it would be possible to do the colorwork of the yoke on a circular knitting machine? Or does the fixed size of the machine make that impossible?
I've heard you can do color work on the little beanie machines so maybe. When I make the yoke on the machine, I like to knit the whole thing bottom up and it comes on and off the machine several times to do the decreases. Check out an example in this video ruclips.net/video/JE5YGAypZKQ/видео.html
You would probably need to make the yoke in smaller wedges including stitches either side of each wedge to seam them up. I have seen Felicia Lo Wong of Sweet Georgia making a yoke of a sweater on her flat bed machine in two halves, so that would be doable on the lk150.
9:00 wait so i can block by putting it in the washing machine? i need to know more, can you always do it, what settings/temperature, and what do you do after it's done washing? i love to know.
You can wash/ soak some knit items in the washing machine on the hand wash/ delicate cycle, then lay out to block once the cycle is done. You may not want to do it with fibers that felt easily like untreated wools and such.
As I am falling deep down in the rabbit hole of watching videos about machine knitting, I found your channel just a few weeks ago and today youtube recommended this video to me. As a hand knitter who has always been interested in machine knitting, but never took a go at it, I am very fast getting more fascinated by every video I watch.
And now this...! This is genius! Don't think I need any more convincing 😊
This is so inspiring. This is how I want to finish my sweaters. Also, former software developer. Thanks for all of your tutorials.
I am so happy I was recommended your videos because I find them perfect! I find you are able to explain to me in terms that make sense to me. I need to understand how the machine works in my mind before I can understand it. I am not a hand knitter and that's why I am now looking for a used knitting machine. For some reason I have issues with knitting where I do not have with crochet. It could be that I was taught crochet first. IDK! Keep up the great videos.
This is really cool! I also like that you showed the math behind it
I love how your mind works, x
this hybrid hand and machine knit sweater is so creative and genius! thank you for walking us through both the creative and also planning/math process! 🫶🏻 can’t wait to try this!!
I love endless rows of stockinette. Unfortunately I lack the gift of eternal life so...
this is widely done in Shetland. Has been done since knitting machines were invented. They do the fabulous knitting by hand for the yokes and on the machine for the remainder.
Lovely! Thank you for including your mistakes. They were very instructive.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your approach to pattern makes so much more sense to me than the standard graded patterns… gotta love mathy brains 😆
Love it! I excelled in math but found that I couldn’t take it all day long. I am an administrative assistant and love my job. For next year I have been thinking to combine your body sock with mermaid flippers. We live in a climate that is cool for Halloween but not snowy.
Love all of your videos. Very inspiring!!!
34:28 oh! The underarm is like the bottom of a tote bag, sewn perpendicular to the other seems!
Next time you could try taking it off the machine and knitting the rib on circular or straight needles. This is what I have done with my current project. The sleeve and bottom ribs knitted with 3.5mm straight needles. The neck required circular needles; and as I didn't have that size, I used 4mm. As the garment is for a baby I figure this should be okay. 😊
This turned out amazing! Well done on the color work. Stranded color work is no joke.
Thank you for posting this, your sweater is gorgeous! I made my first sweater bottom up starting with a provisional cast on for the sleeves and front and back and I knitted all the ribbing by hand because I wasn't happy with the way my samples of the latched ribbing looked. The second one I want to try the lace yoke is knitted downwards, so seeing your video helped me see the process involved!
Oh and I found I could knit a 2 ply Shetland fingering weight (Harrisville Shetland) on the LK150, but I had to go right down in tension, my tension on the dial was at 2 and my antenna was at 3 and it matched my hand knitting gauge in stocking stitch at a size 2 needle and I think I used a 0 for the ribbing - though my hand knitting tends to be one needle size down from many patterns.
Thank you for the great video! the sweater looks wonderful. I really appreciate the math portions as well ❤
Wow this is so amazing! I actually bought my LK150 to do exactly this, but I’m not a machine knitter and I’ve only been knitting for about 3 years now so not super experienced. For my project (this did work but it wasn’t 100% perfect), I ended up knitting the sleeves on the machine bottom up, seaming them and then Kitchener stitching them to my yoke.
I’m pretty excited to try this method for my next sweater, thanks so much for making this video!!!
I've only been machine knitting a little longer than you have! It's totes possible to learn all of this.
When I make these on the machine, I knit them bottom up and then do the yoke on the machine too, no need for kitchener stitch.
Great seeing you combine both hand & machine knitting and showing how you worked through the math for your self drafted pattern, it turned out awesome. I’m knitting the Alaska hat (HK pattern) on my KH890, made a punchcard for the fair isle, just got to workout how to do the decreases for the crown now….
The bath behind the scenes was everything
I have gotten interested in machine knitting recently because I would love to do this type of project, I gave myself nasty carpal tunnel in my early 20s hand knitting too much. Anyways if you are interested in hand knitting books that have formulas and design tips for sweaters rather than traditional patterns, Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Without Tears is a classic for bottom-up and Knitting from the Top by Barbara G. Walker is good for top-down. I'm not super plugged in to the knitting world these days so I am sure there are updated tutorials out there as well!
Such a cute sweater! I would have made it longer, but that length is cute on you! Great job! All that math tho!🫨 I would have been in tears trying to figure it out!😆
That turned out really nice! You're right, that transition from hand to machine knit is really good. Well done!
I’ve done the same thing! Machine knit the boring bits so I can then knit he complex bits by hand. Love the term ‘sleeve island!’
As someone that has taken (and passed!) a lot of math courses during my degree, and yet find math impossible if not every little step is on paper; you may have the same problem that I do. A bad memory for numbers, it is apparantly its own seperate thing. I have had the same phone number for 15+ years, and still have trouble recalling it. My memory is otherwise fine, but numbers does not work.
Awesome ! I just ordered my knitting machine LK 150 and I should be receiving it in about a week and I’m so excited! I’m currently binge watching all your videos, thank you so much!
This is just what I need ❤
This was so incredibly helpful. Thank you so much for the explanation with the instruction. I have just started the machine knit adventure and am looking forward to someday actually making something ;)
Great job. This is what got me into MK. I attempted once, but the sweater ended up to small. So much for my great math skills. Learned a lot from your video. As I am new to AYAB, I would like to try the full sweater on the machine. Thank you for your great videos and content.
Lovely sweater! It was wonderful to see how to combine hand knitting and machine knitting together.
I'm thinking more and more about a knitting machine to try a different style of knitting 🧶
Thank you for the great video! I learned a lot watching it! You are a wonderful teacher!
Thank you for showing how to do this on your single bed machine. I have only done complete sweaters on the machine, although I would hand knit the ribbing. As you pointed out the machine knit stitch is shorter than a hand knit stitch, this might explain why the ribbing looked bigger than the body even though I used smaller needles for the hand ribbing.
Nice work, sweater looks so pretty on you! I've done many of these, although my preferred method is upside and backwards from this. I prefer bottom up for colorwork and I machine knit all the parts, including the short rows at armhole area, scrapped off, and put on needle for the handknit colorwork yoke. I match my handknit gauge to the machine gauge. Always enjoy your videos!
I also like to machine knit first and then match that gauge for the handknit parts.
Your sweater is lovely. Your math is very helpful. You may enjoy, and knit faster, by hand knitting in a continental style. Of course not faster than the machine. I hav just started combining hand and machine knitting. Thank you for this helpful video.
Not sure if you can, but I hold each color in a different hand for ease of color changing.
I was going to suggest the same thing - two color knitting by hand is much faster (and I keep the tension much more even) when holding one color in each hand. ruclips.net/video/wJph4N6aqFs/видео.html
I am making a colorwork knit poncho. Its gonna be my biggest colorwork & knitting project ever. I was eyeing Halloween sweaters like yours , maybe my next knitwear project will be a skull sweater!
I love it!
so cute! 🎃👻🎃
This is something I really want to try. I had planned on doing it with my current vintage cardigan project, but I chickened out because I havent really got the knack of my knitting machine lol. Hopefully I can figure it out for the next one - plain stockinette can be so tedious to hand knit!
Love it
Beautiful.
Excellent video! I’m a hand knitter who is learning machine knitting on the LK150. I’m in the process of hanging the body of a sweater on the machine, after hand knitting the yoke. The way you bound off your yoke caught my attention. You did a P2TFL, so you decreased. Why is that? Im trying to understand the best way to accomplish this technique of hanging my hand knitting. I liked the contrast of your way, and how clearly the stitches could be seen.
I didn't decrease, just bound off. I chose that bind off because it leaves the loops accessible.
@@KnitFactoryImpl ok, great, I like it! Just trying to find how to do it 🤓. In the video you called the bind off method a “Purl 2 together, through the front loop .” Could there be another name for the bind off technique?
Anyone who may know what the bo is called, please chime in. 😊
This is exactly how I use my LK-150
I have a degree in math and I just had to rip back a whole section of a hand knit hat's decreases because I thought to myself 80/5=20 and didn't notice that is wildly incorrect until I had completely finished the hat and was looking at the spirals on the top. 😭
This is really cool! I'm curious whether it would be possible to do the colorwork of the yoke on a circular knitting machine? Or does the fixed size of the machine make that impossible?
I've heard you can do color work on the little beanie machines so maybe. When I make the yoke on the machine, I like to knit the whole thing bottom up and it comes on and off the machine several times to do the decreases. Check out an example in this video ruclips.net/video/JE5YGAypZKQ/видео.html
You would probably need to make the yoke in smaller wedges including stitches either side of each wedge to seam them up. I have seen Felicia Lo Wong of Sweet Georgia making a yoke of a sweater on her flat bed machine in two halves, so that would be doable on the lk150.
9:00 wait so i can block by putting it in the washing machine? i need to know more, can you always do it, what settings/temperature, and what do you do after it's done washing? i love to know.
You can wash/ soak some knit items in the washing machine on the hand wash/ delicate cycle, then lay out to block once the cycle is done. You may not want to do it with fibers that felt easily like untreated wools and such.
What factors do you take into account when deciding whether to knit with acrylic versus a natural fiber?
There is a whole PhD thesis in there somewhere. Personal preference, garment care, skill level, wear, etc.
In addition to my previous query, you concluded a Stitch Gauge of 9 would be right. Do you recall what your Tension Rod was set at?
The settings that you need on your machine will be specific to your yarn and the ambient conditions you're working in.
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