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How Lace / Eyelet pattern work on a Brother Knitting Machine
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 2024 is still young, so I guess you all still remember the Building Block Blanket KnitAlong from last year. What I missed to tell was, that I had the honor to design one of the squares for the Blanket. I designed the letter “G” block! At the time I was about to design the…
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Building Block Blanket – A year in a blanket
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 In Germany they say “Gut Ding will Weile haben” (good things take time). That’s why I took the time to knit a worthy edge for my blanket – I have chosen the picot edge which took me at least 24 working hours plus hand seaming of the gaps. I still managed to finish it…
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Building Block Blanket – Sep. / Oct. (MKC KAL 23)
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 The year is almost over and the blanket is almost finished. Only four letter blocks are still missing, which will be knitted in November. December is reserved for joining the blocks into a blanket and working an edge. When I lay out all the blocks next to each other, it’s impressive how many different…
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Building Block Blanket – August (MKC KAL 23)
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Due to the summer vacation and the last Molen market I got a little behind with my blocks for my machine knitted blanket. Therefore, I have only now, in mid-October finished my August blocks. The general idea: This year, the MKC is hosting a year-long KnitAlong (KAL) called the “2023 Building Blocks KAL.” During…
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Showing off the beauty of hand-painted yarn in a cowl
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Quite a while ago, I had found this tutorial for a cowl worked with the knitting machine, which I wanted to knit for the fall. However, the instructions are not written for a machine with standard needle gauge and thin yarn but for a chunky machine with larger needle gauge and thicker yarn. That…
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Importance of swatching (tension square)
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 In knitting, it can be handy to know how many stitches and rows will cover a centimeter. Especially when knitting fitted garments this is crucial to make sure the garment will fit later. I have to admit, that I am often lazy and just follow the instructions of a pattern without checking if my…
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Building Block Blanket – July (MKC KAL 23)
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Yet another month is over, yet another set of five more squares for the blanket is done. The general idea: This year, the MKC is hosting a year-long KnitAlong (KAL) called the “2023 Building Blocks KAL.” During this KAL, four to five squares will be knitted each month using the knitting machine. They will…
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Machine knitted socks – Socktober in July
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Currently, summer is definitely taking a break and it’s quite fresh, especially in the morning and evening hours. I suddenly felt very like I need homemade socks, quick. I therefore dared the experiment to knit my first socks with the knitting machine. I used the booklet “Singer Knitting Machines, Socks Book – Seamed and…
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Punch card letter E design
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 Since I liked the design for the letter K for the Building Blocks KnitAlong (BBKAL) of the Machine Knit Community (MKC) a lot and I had made an extra punch card for the background of the letter, I wanted to make a second letter square like that. I designed a Fair Isle letter E…
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Building Block Blanket – June (MKC KAL 23)
EN | GE | NL 🇬🇧 The June blocks are done and it’s halfway through my year-long KnitAlong to knit enough blocks for a blanket with the knitting machine. Time has just flown by! The general idea: This year, the MKC is hosting a year-long KnitAlong (KAL) called the “2023 Building Blocks KAL.” During this KAL, four to five squares…
