Domestic Machine Knitting : Beginner's Guide

Learn everything you need to know to get started on domestic knit machines. From setting up to learning basic techniques and exploring each technique with variations.

Course curriculum

1. 1. Threading up the machine
2. 2. Casting On (E-wrap)
3. 3. Stitch Quality
4. 4. Taking Knit off the Machine
5. 5. Striping - Adding Yarns/Colours
6. 6. Eyelets
7. 7. Eyelets - Wale Deflection
8. 8. Ladders
9. 9. Ladders - Striping
10. 10. Ladders - Increasing Width
11. 11. Travelling Ladders
12. 12. E-wrap (over knit)
13. 13. Weave (over knit)
14. 14. Tuck Stitch (Using Holding Cams)
15. 15. Tuck Stitch - Striping
16. 16. Tuck Stitch - Manual Lifts
17. 17. Tuck Stitch - Manual Lifts - Stitch Quality
18. 18. Tuck Stitch - Manual Lifts - Striping
19. 19. Seams (on the machine)
20. 20. Casting off/Bind off
1. 1. Large Eyelets : 2 Needles
2. 2. Large Eyelets : 3 Needles
3. 3. Large Eyelets : 3 Needles (Method 2) with Variations
4. 4. Large Eyelets : 4 Needles
5. 5. 1x1 Eyelets : Adding Colours
6. 6. 3x3 Eyelets (Method 2) : Adding Colours
7. 7. 3x3 Eyelets : 1 pattern, 2 Variations
8. 8. 3x3 Eyelets : 1 pattern, 2 variations
1. 1. Tuck Stitch - Changing Colours & Fibres
2. 2. Combination : Tuck & Eyelets : 2 Colours
3. 3. Combination : Tuck & Eyelets : 4 Colours
4. 4. Combination : Tuck & Ladders : 2 Colours
5. 5. Combination : Tuck & Ladders : 2 Colours
6. 6. Combination
1. 1.Wavy Knits
2. 2.Patterned Stripes
3. 3.3D Striping
4. 4.Mock Cables
5. 5.Laddered 3D knit
1. 1.Basics - 2 Colours
2. 2.Basics - 3 Colours
3. 3.Basics - 3 Colours
4. 4.Basics - 3 Colours
5. 5.Variation - Swatch 1
6. 6.Variation - Swatch 2
1. 1. 1x1
2. 2. 2x2
3. 3. 2x2 with Ladders
4. 4. Combination - Cables and Tucks
1. 1. Block 1 - Short Row
2. 2. Block 1 - Short Row - Changing Needle Layout
3. 3. Block 1 - Short Row - Adding Techniques
4. 4. Block 2 - Slits
5. 5. Block 2 - Adding several slits
6. 6. Block 2 - Adding Colour
7. 7. Block 2 - Strips & Cables
8. 8. Block 2 - Strips & Cables Variation 1
9. 9. Block 2 - Pattern
10. 10. Block 3 - Creating Movement with Slits
11. 11. Block 3 - Creating Movement with Slits 2
12. 12. Block 3 - Creative Movement with Cables
13. 13. Block 3 - Creating Movement with Cables - Variation 2
14. 14. Block 3 - Angled Pattern
15. 15. Block 3 - Angled Pattern
16. 16. Block 4 - Adding Ladders
17. 17. Block 4 - Ladders - Adding Colours
18. 18. Block 4 - Ladders - Needle Layout Variation
1. 1.Block 1 - Basic
2. 2.Block 1 - Placements
3. 3.Block 1 - Round Flaps
4. 4.Block 1 - Tuck Stitch
5. 5.Block 2 (pointy structure) - Basic
6. 6.Block 2 - All over placement
7. 7. Block 2 - Cluster
8. 8.Block 2 - Adding Colour
9. 9.Block 3 - Bobbls Basic
10. 10.Block 3 - Method 3
11. 11.Block 3 - All over placement
12. 12.Block 3 - Adding Colour
1. 1.Block 1 - Basics
2. 2.Block 1 - Placements
3. 3.Block 1 - Adding Colour
4. 4.Block 1 - Traditional Cables
5. 5. Block 1 - Cables within Cables
6. 6. Block 2 - Basics
7. 7. Block 2 - Placements
8. 8. Block 2 - Plaits
9. 9.Block 2 - Adding Colours
10. 10.Block 2 - Floats
11. 11.Block 2 - Floats and Travelling Cables
12. 12.Block 2 - Floats and Travelling Cables 2
1. 1. Turn Up Hem
2. 2. Picot Hem
3. 3. Layered Picot Hems
4. 4. Scallop Hem
5. 5. Laddered Hem : 2x1
6. 6. Laddered Hem : 2x2
7. 7. Laddered Hem : 2x2 (with elastic)
1. 1. Swatch 1 - Large Horizontal Holes
2. 2.Swatch 2
3. 3. Swatch 3
1. 1. Basics
2. 2. Striping
3. 3. Placement Striping
4. 4. Longer Lengths
5. 5. Beading - Short Length
6. 6. Beading - Long Length
7. 7. Partial Knitting
8. 8. Large Holes
9. 9. Pattern
1. 1. Increasing : 3 prong : with eyelets
2. 2. Increasing : 3 prong : closing eyelets
3. 3. Increasing : 5 prong tool
4. 4. Increasing : 3x1
5. 5. Increasing : 5x1
6. 6. Decreasing : 3 prong tool
7. 7. Decreasing : Cable Edge
8. 8. Decreasing : Cable Edge 2
1. Swatch 1 - Adding pieces to knit
2. Swatch 2 - Cable Knits
3. Swatch 3 - Laddered Knits
4. Swatch 4 - Gathered Knits (snaps)
1. 1.How to use a transfer tool
2. 2.How to pick up a dropped stitch
3. 3.How to Undo a row/stitches
4. 4.How to undo Linking (with knot at the end)
5. 5.How to undo Linking
6. 6.How to release the carriage (when it gets jammed)
7. 7.How to put ends away - Weaving on Machine
8. 8.How to put ends away - Knitting colours in (with knot)
9. 9.How to put ends away - Latch Tool/Darning Needle
10. 10.How to do an invisible seam - Darning
11. 11.How to pick up a dropped tuck stitch

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133 lessons
12.5 hours of video content

Domestic Machine Knitting : Beginner's Guide

Course curriculum

Basic Stitch Structures

Eyelets

Tuck Stitch 1.0

Tuck Stitch 2.0

Inlay

Cables

Partial Knit 1.0

Partial Knit 2.0 - 3D Knits

Partial Knit 3.0 - Cables

Hems

Casting Off

Elongated Stitch

Fashioning (Increasing & Decreasing)

3D Knits (reattaching knits)

How Tos

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