Machine knitting techniques

General Videos and Techniques by Subject Matter:

• Buttonholes
• Cables (single bed)
• Cables (double bed)
• Casting off (single bed)
• Casting on (single bed)
• Casting off (double bed)
• Casting on (double bed)
• Cut and sew
• Designaknit
• Doublebed jacquard
• Edgings & joins
• Increasing and decreasing
• Lace
• Making up
• Miscellaneous
• Patterning (single bed)
• Patterning (double bed)
• Ribbing
• Shaping & shapes
• Short-rowing

Buttonholes

• Buttonhole in 2x2 ribbed band
• Buttonhole in 2x2 ribbing
• Buttonholes in a folded band
• Buttonholes in knitted band
• Buttonhole sandwich band
• Gerda's easy buttonholes
• Horizontal ribbed band
• Kitchener buttonhole in vertical folded band
• Passap buttonhole
• Passap buttonhole for double band
• Passap no-neaten buttonholes
• Single bed slits aka horizontal buttonholes
• The perfect buttonhole
• Vertical buttonholes
• Working buttonholes into the bind off

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Cables (single bed)

• Cables
• Cables and lace
• Cable type pattern
• Chunky woven cable
• Embossed diamond cable
• Faux cables
• Hand-tooled cable 3 ways
• Helix cable
• Sideways cables
• Joining two panels with a cable
• Machine knit wide cable
• Machine knitting cables, single bed
• Mock cables
• Passap cables knitted super easy
• Repairing cable crosses
• Supercable
• Supersize cables
• Surprise cable join
• Tower cable
• Turbo braids (cable effect)
• Visualizing knit cables in color with Excel

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Cables (double bed)

• Five stitch braided cable
• Full fisherman's rib and reversible cables
• Machine knit reversible cables
• Supersize cables

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Casting Off (single bed)

• Achieving a loose cast off row
• Back stitch bind off (knitfits)
• Back stitch bind off (S Guagliumi)
• Cast off in the middle of a row
• Double-strand tapestry needle bind off for lace *NEW*
• Figure of 8 cast off *NEW*
• Lace cast off
• Latch tool bind off around the needles
• Figure of 8 cast off and graft
• Learn how to cast off around gate pegs
• Learn a simple cast off
• Loose bind off on plastic machine
• Looser latch tool cast on and cast off
• No roll edging
• Tapestry bind off

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Casting On (single bed)

• Another cast on
• Auto-cast on
• Casting on with a Hamanaka knitting machine
• Casting on single bed
• Casting on techniques
• Double e-wrap cast on
• Double e-wrap cast on
• Double ewrap machine knitting cast on
• Double strand e-wrap cast on for bargello lace *NEW*
• Hanging a cast on comb
• How to cast on and cast off
• How to hang a cast on rag
• Knitting needle cast on
• Latch tool cast on
• Learn how to e-wrap cast on
• Machine knit hems 1
• Machine knit hems 2
  
• Modified e-wrap cast on
• Ravel cord cast on
• Reverse e-wrap cast on
• Ribber cast on comb/open stitch single bed cast on
  
• Ribber comb used on the single bed
• Single bed reformed rib
• Stretchy usable latch tool cast on
• Useful cast ons for machine knitting
• Weave cast on
• Weaving cast on (photo tutorial)
• Weaving cast on
• What is a cast on rag?

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Casting off (double bed)

• Back stitch ribbing bind off
• Crochet ribbing cast off
• Double bind off
• Four ways to cast off on a Passap
• Hand-sewn bind off for 1x1 rib
• Hand-sewn bind off for 2x2 rib
• Inserting ribber comb
• Passap new twist bind offs
• Purl graft ribber bind off
• Rib bind off from scrap yarn
• Smiles and frowns cast off
• Smiles and frowns ribber bind-off
• Smiles and frowns ribber bind-off with waste 1x1 rib
• Whipped ribber bind-off

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Casting On (double bed)

• 2x2 ribbing circular cast on
• A very neat double bed cast on edge
• Beautiful neat ribber cast on
• Bond cast on - can't possibly work but does - pdf and video
• Broken toe cast on for 2x2 ribbing
• Brother full needle rib cast on
• Brother ribber 1x1 cast on
• Casting on, double bed
• Centering your ribber cast on comb
• Cheat sheet - how to cast on in rib with Brother and Silver
• Double bed circular hem
• Double bed e-wrap cast on
• E-wrap cast on for ribbing
• Full needle rib cast on
• Hand-knit look for double bed cast on
• Passap broken-toe cast on
• Perfect rib start
• Principles of ribbing cast ons in machine knitting
• Racked ribber cast on, tips
• The perfect ribber cast on
• Transferring stitches from bed to bed
• Tricks to eliminate ripply ribbing cast on edge

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Cut and Sew

• Charting device - cut and sew patterns
• Cut and sew neck instructions
• Placing and cutting first pattern piece
• Mitered corners for sweater knits
• Using your sewing machine on knitted fabric

Designaknit (DAK)

• DAK custom palettes
• DAK graphics studio
• DAK8 lace tool
• DAK8 method of knitting
• Machine knitting and DAK - an experiment in converting photos to fairisle
• Using DAK to print graph paper

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Double Bed Jacquard

• Blistered stitches DBJ
• Double bed cheat sheets (Brother and Passap)
• Double bed cheat sheets (Brother and Knitmaster) (PDF)
• Double-bed jacquard *NEW*
• Ladder-back DBJ
• Reversible DBJ, reversible DBJ with pictures
• Semi jacquard
• Two colour DBJ
• Using double-bed jacquard to knit a motif
• Vertical striper backing on Brother
• Vertical striped backing on DBJ

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Edgings and Joins

• Adding a triangle to sweater bottom
• Add mock ribbing to the end of a piece
• Aran poncho hem
• Banded again - how to attach bands
• Bell bottom trim part 1, part 2
• Bouillon trim
• Bulky rick-rack edge on the standard knitting machine
• Cabled edging (Diana)
• Cabled edging (Marg)
• Cardigan bands
• Crochet finishes for knitting part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7
• Crochet-like edge trims
• Crochet-look edging for v-neck
• Cut and sew neckbands
• Decorative no-roll edge
• Decorative tulip edging
• Doubled-over neckband
• Easy casing
• Easy bind edging
• Enchanted edgings
• Folded over trim
• Foldover edge trim
• Fern-leaf edging
• Fisherman rib edging
• Fringes
• Fringe two ways
• How to add fringe to a scarf
• How to add a ribbed button band when you don't have a ribber
• How to pocket a neckband *NEW*
• Icord bind off
• Icord join and trim
• Intarsia cable join
• Judith Duffy's cabled edging
• Knitted in bias trim
• Knitted in lace edge
• Knitting in the cardigan bands
• Knitting machine edging
• Lace hem
• Machine knit a scalloped hem
• Machine knit crochet like trims
• Machine knit fringe
• Machine knit ruffle
• Making waves neck edge shaping technique
• Mitred rib in the round
• Mitred rib trim
• Mitered v-neck band method
• Mock cable and worm edging *NEW*
• Mock cable and worm trim
• More edge trims
• No roll edge *NEW*
• Picot hem
• Ribber edgings
• Ribber trims and edgings 1
• Ribber trims 2
• Ribber trims 3
• Rolled edge
• Ruched cable trim
• Ruffles
• Scalloped edge for garments
• Scalloped ribbing
• Sandwich bands for cut and sew edges
• Shell edging (passap)
• Short-rowed ruffles
• Side casing for a bag
• Slip stitch edging
• Super-easy decorative no-roll edge
• Two edgings
• Tuck foldover scalloped border
• Twisted fringe
• Two diagonal trims
• What stitches to pick up for a folded hem

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Increasing and Decreasing

• Decreases - 5 types (superneedle)
• Increasing using transfer tool
• Increasing without dropping stitches
• S2K1psso by machine
• Streamlined increases and decreases

Lace

• Brother lace carriage
• Converting HK lace to MK lace
• Drop stitch lace, japanese machines
• Fan lace tutorial
• Fern lace
• Flame chevron
• Half milano edges with the Brother ribber
• Hand and machine knitting - adding a lifeline when knitting lace
• Hand to machine lace symbols
• How to avoid dropped stitches in lace
• Lace - Tony Bennett
• Lace knitting - a lifeline can save the day
• Lace knitting without a lace carriage
• Lace: the artful arrangement of holes
• Scalloped-edged lace
• Short-row shaping of lace
• Some simple 3-stitch patterns
• The art of lace on a knitting machine
• Thread lace alternatives
• Using lace cards on the Brother bulky machine
• Yin and yang lace

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Making Up

• 50 ways to love your linker
• Bickford seam (two methods)
• Blocking your knitting
• Cut and sew
• Faster, flatter mattress stitch
• Flat seam in 2x2 ribbing
• Four favourite seam finishes for sweater knits
• Garter stitch graft
• Grafting on the knitting machine
• Grafting by hand
• Grafting - knit side up
• Grafting on the knitting machine
• Grafting stitches
• Grafting tube ends perfectly
• How to hang the edge of a garment
• How to shorten a garment once it is sewn together
• Linker workbook
• Kitchenering sock toes with waste yarn
• Knitting in pattern with 2 carriages, Brother punchcard machines
• Machine sewing knitted fairisle floats
• Matching stitch patterns across seams
• Point to point linking
• Row to row seaming aka matress stitch
• Russian join with video
• "Seam-as-you-go"
• Seaming, joining, picking up stitches part 1, part 2
  
• Seaming garter stitch
• Seaming on the machine
• Sew as you go revisited
• Sew knitted pieces on a sewing machine
• Sewing or vertical grafting
• Sweater finishing 101 part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5
• Shoulder joins
• Using the knitting machine to join garments
• Weaving in your ends
  
• Weaving in the yarn tails
• Weaving in yarn tails using a latch tool
• You can block acrylic
• Zigzag panel join

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Miscellaneous

• I-cord
• Knitting shag (rug) with a bulky machine and ribber
• Knitting with unusual fibres: Elastic
• Plating on an Addi circular machine
• Using the ribber comb as a single bed weight
• Tips for knitting with fine yarn

Patterning (single bed)

• 3 and 5 stitch popcorns
• 3D eyelets and nops
• 8 ways to do garter stitch on a machine
• Adding beads
• Anatomy of a punchcard
• Beading on the machine
• Brother KH970 garment designer introduction
• Brother KH970 pattern positions
• Broomstick lace on a knitting machine
• Chain stitch embellishment
• Chevron patterns on the Bond
• Chinese knots
• Craftsy class #2 - garter bar, entrelac and intarsia
• Crochet-like stitch on a knitting machine
• Crochet meets machine knitting techniques: working with short rows
• Designing words on a punchcard
• DIY sock blanks for dyeing
• Doing it double - the double latch tool
• Double layer fabric on the main bed only
• Downloading from DAK to Brother 970
• Dragonfly stitch
• Easy machine knit bobbles
• Easy peasy turbo cables
• Enlarging stitches - really huge stitches
• Entrelac
• Entrelac introduction part 1, part 2
• Entrelacs
• Entrelac pretender
• Fair-isle on a non-patterning machine
• Fair isle single bed float control
• Faux rib
• Floatless vertical fairisle
• Free weaving with the knitting machine
• Hand-manipulated lace
• How to knit a tuck stitch
• How to make stripes on a vintage knitting machine
• How to make text without DAK
• How to use a needle pusher
• Intarsia
• Intarsia and yarn brake
• Intarsia notes
• Intarsia 2 colour cable
• KH230 and Bond fairisle
• Knitweave - the laying-in method
• Ladders with lace part 1, part 2
• Latched ribbing at the end of a piece
• Latching up stitches
• Lengthening techniques
• Lifted mesh stitch (looks a bit like crochet)
• Lizard Ridge pattern
• Loops and knots
• Knitting machine yellowed? Make it white again!
  
• Machine knit illusion knitting
• Machine knitted graphics using GIMP and DAK
• Machine knit zigzag fabric
• Machine knitting pattern definitions - main bed
• Magic fairisle
• Making waves technique on the knitting machine
• Manual fairisle part 1, part 2
• Manual slip stitch
• Manual tuck
• Manual tuck stitch
• Manual two colour slip stitch
• Manual weaving 1
• Manual weaving 2
• Mirror image lace
• One row stripes
• Picture knitting without an intarsia carriage
• Pinecone popcorns
• Pleats created with lace transfers
• Popcorns 101
• Principles of formation of the elongated loops
• Principles of knitting terry cloth
• Programming the CB1/KH970
• Punching a 12st repeat card
• Reforming stitches
• Raised diagonal half-cable trim
• Revisiting pleats on the knitting machine
• Rotini twisted stitches
• Seashell stitch
• Seed stitch
• Shadow pleats knitting
• Short row graphics
• Short row shapings: bumps and slits meet entrelac
• Sideways tuck zigzags
• Simple transfer of stitches
• Single bed drop stitch
• Single motif knitting
• Single bed quilting part 1
• Smocking on the knitting machine (Knitnatters)
• Smocking on the knitting machine (Knits for Joy)
• Swedish weaving
• Swung stocking stitch, hand-manipulated
• Tartan
• The art of knitweave
• The Every Other Needle tool
• Thrumming on the knitting machine
• Tips for motif knitting
• Transferring stitches using waste yarn
• Tuck lace needle arrangement
• Tucking over several needles in a row
• Twisted stitches
• Two-colour tuck
• Tuck aran stitch
• Waffle stitch
• Wavy drop lace
• Wavy pattern with short rows and garter carriage *NEW*
• Working with generated mazes in GIMP
• Woven insert into the knitwear
• Wrapping an isolated motif part 1, part 2
• Zigzag ladder lace

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Patterning (double bed)

• Basic double-bed ripples
• Bobble pattern (Passap)
• Bowknot/butterfly stitch on the machine
• Bubble pops fabric
• Bubbles the fast way
• Carpet or pile stitch on Brother / Passap, part 1, part 2
• Condo cables, or using the ribber to add more yarn
• Double-bed drop stitch
• Doublebed jacquard with birdseye back
• Double-bed quilting
• Double bed tuck and slip
• Double sided cable rib
• Embossed leaf lace
• Fast summer mesh
• Garter stitch on the Hamanaka knitting machine
• Geometric shapes in drop stitch lace part 1, part 2, part 3
• How to knit scallop texture
• Knitting interlock on a hand knitting machine part 1, part 2
• Ladderback jacquard - photo tutorial
• Knit 2, purl 2 drop lace
• Knit and purl blocks to create folding fabric pleats
• Knitted pleats
• Machine knitting pattern definitions - ribber bed
• Machine rib short rows
• "Missoni" style zig zags
• Mitred ribbing
• Mock garter stitch
• Passap queen of diamonds
• Passap vertical ripple racking pattern
• Pile knitting dropped stitch tools
• Revisting drop/release stitch lace (aka drive/mesh lace, summer fairisle
• Ribbed pleated folding fabrics
• Rules for double-bed permanent pleats
• Shadow lace
• Shadow lace tool (aka Jaws)
• Sideways tuck zigzags
• Simulated seed stitch on the Passap
• Transferring stitches between beds
• Transferring stitches between beds using 2 3 prong tools
• Transitions in ribbing from EON to FNR
• Tuck stitch combination fabrics
• Two colour ribber brioche stitch
• Unconventional uses for pattern cards
• Vertical racking, fisherman's rib
• Vertical striped ribbing

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Ribbing

• Fisherman's rib variations
• Gathered scallop ribbing
• Mock ribbing
• Picked up ribbed band
• Ribber 101
• Quick rib neckline
• Ribber cast ons - what they look like
• Ribber hints and tips
• Ribbing seam in back of socks
• Tips for learning your ribber

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Shaping and Shapes

• Assymetrical garment design Brother 970
• Automatic wrap in short rows
• Brother knitleader
• Decorative raglan decreases *NEW*
• Diagonal square
• Diagram patterns: how to
• Drawing assymetrical and oversize garments on a charting device
• Knit both sides of a neckline at once
• Knitting a circle by machine - how to calculate
• Machine knit round yoke
• Multi-directional triangles
• Neckline shaping with holding position
• Quarter-crown hat shaping
• Pullover generator
• Recharting a wider sweater to fit on a knitting machine
• Set-in sleeve knitted from the top down
• Shaping a neckline using holding position
• Shell shapes
• Short-rowing / decreasing with ravel cord
• Shoulder shaping 101
• Slanted pockets
• Sock heels on the ribber
• Tubular machine knit fabrics
• V-neck raglan embellishments
• Ways to shape beanie top

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Short-rowing

• Another way to short-row
• Charting shapes for short row knitting and shaping
• Manual short row ruffles
• Partial knitting
• Principles of short rowing
• Short-row heels without holes
• Short-row sleeves from the top
• Short-rowing
• Short-rowing a toe made easy *NEW*
• Short-rowing on both sides at the same time
• Short-rowing part 1 - one side only
• Short-rowing part 2 - diagonally
• Short-rowing part 3 - both sides at once
• Short-row triangles
• Short-row triangle spiral strips
• Unholy heels

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