[Nfb-krafters-korner] Machine knitting

Tue Sep 27 05:42:59 UTC 2016

Jean I'm very curious too.

My mom says that the machines are dangerous and she couldn't see how a blind person could use one safely. But this one sounds safe and like it is a lot of fun. She also told me she had issues using one and she could see!

I want one too! What's the cost?

Is it a good one to be for a beginner or is it a little to advanced for me?

Thanks for sharing.

Naima

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    Hi Becky,

I'd love to know more about knitting machines. Ever since I was very little, I thought it would be fun to use one. But I've never even seen one.

So, yours obviously is accessible. Are they all pretty accessible?

How intricate can you knit with one? Can you use a pattern with different kinds of stitches, or does a row have to be the same all the way across? 
What about things like yarnovers, knitting together, lacey work, etc.?

Just very curious.

Jean

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Loren, remember the old fashion typewriters that when you pressed down a key magically somehow the right key of thirty something keys would hit your paper. Then at the end of the line you would throw the carriage and return to the left side of the paper. Well the knitting machine is kind of similar in that the machine is set up by me to use x number of needles. I take the carriage back and forth to make a row of knitting.  So that is how I keep track. I set up the machine and the carriage pretty much does the rest to keep those needles in line, smile.

Becky and Jake
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Hi,
How in the world do you keep track of that many needles? Yikes, I didn't realize there were that many.
Thanks,
Lauren

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I finally really looked and one of the subject lines included machine knitting. This is a whole other kind of knitting. It is using a piece of equipment to knit with a hundred or more needles. So definitely not needle nor loom knitting, warm smile.

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