Frustration To Success: Knitting A Vintage Sweater On My New Machine
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2023
- Projects are rarely ever straightforward, and setting up and earning my new knitting machine ribber was especially frustrating at times. However, I love jumping in the deep end with new machinery and I'm so happy with my new vintage sweater!
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Engineering knits is a place for people who enjoy all kinds of vintage and antique crafts - from sewing to knitting, crochet to embroidery I like to try it all. I definitely have a preference for historical fibre crafts, and it is my dream to one day make an entire outfit from sheep to sweater. I hope you enjoy watching me and my favorite companion, Nutella, struggle through some fascinating projects! - Jak na to + styl
This whole sweater was a wild ride from start to finish! Showing all the things that caused issues and frustration is so important for other folks, really appreciate this video.
The Answer Lady Knits has the best videos for repairing those accessories yourself… you have to watch out for springs in them going sproing…. it’s a technical term 😊
Brilliant result. Demonstrates just what patience and tenacity it's required sometimes.
Nutella in the neck opening of the sweater was super cute 😊 And the sweater itself is super cute too!
My grandmother had a knitting machine but it was sold when she died. I'm sad I was too young to understand the value of the machine then.
I remember once she wanted to show me how to use it but she was already so demented she didn't know how 😔
That just opened a whole new world of possibilities for her. I'm sure her hard-working hands and fingers are happy for the break! ❤
Wow - the finished sweater is spectacular! What a journey with the knitting machine - this is such a great video!
I've been waiting for you to get the ribber attachment! I bought my knitting machine in July because of your channel and KnitFactoryImpl, and i was Very excited when i saw this video alert. I've just finished tour 1940's leaf sweater on my machine, with a punchcard i made. Happy knitting!
You're an angel when it comes to patients and working with that machine
I swear I have a photo of my grandma (somewhere in a photo album) wearing a VERY similar sweater and hair style! Now I must go look for it lol (my grandma was born in 1918 so she might have actually had a similar sweater)
As a fellow new machine knitter, I'm really comforted that it's not super easy for you either 🙈 But the joy of machine knitting is making mistakes and fixing them and loving the final piece, even if it's not perfect because no one else can tell anyway! I really love this vintage sweater and the recycling of salvaged yarn is so unique and beautiful.
I used to think I was patient. If that were my project, everything would be out the window by now lol. You have my admiration. I bow to your superior patience levels. Either that or you are insane. Take your pick. Wonderful end product, but.....
It is crazy seeing a sweater come out the bottom of the machine
The sweater is darling! The 1930s puff sleeves and silhouette always look so romantic and soft. I love it! And what a gorgeous choice of yarn -- despite all the challenges is posed. Well done to you for sticking with it and learning so much! I'm excited to see your next big project!
What you need is your very own 20' X 20' workshop
That is such a memory evoking noise. Mum used to borrow a knitting machine to knit our school jumpers, which as kids we appreciated so much more than hand knitted ones 🙄. I’m sure her hands and fingers appreciated it too.
I have a Brother chunky machine with a ribber. A 260 I think? It’s in the attic. Makes me sad to have lost my skills. I loved machine knitting. Before I had my ribber my late mum would knit my ribs down for me from the body of the garment. Happy memories. 😢
Oh you were so close to crying a couple of times. But you perseverance is admirable. I love love love the sweater and miiiight just make it myself. Great video ❤
Do you know were you can buy the pattern?
The sweater looks great! Don’t feel too disheartened. I have been machine knitting for almost 20 years and to this day, there are times I forget to set something, or check the yarn is threaded correctly, I go across and woosh! Al drops on the floor. It happens to the best of us, we are only human.
Regarding the sleeves, you would of had to start large and decrease, to do that on the machine and probably need the use of a garter bar to easily make the multiple decreases across the first few rows. However, whichever method works for you and the great thing about machine knitting, is you are able to combine hand knitting and machine knitting. Many machine knitters are typically prolific hand knitters too.
Keep at it, it’s lots of fun! Well done. X
Your sweater is stunning 😍
The editing for this whole video was so fun! Especially that tension buildup at 9:49. Chefs kiss!
I absolutely love how you share the whole journey. It makes me feel so much better about how much I mess up with my knitting projects and other stuff and have to redo stuff! Things that are worth it take time, sometimes I forget that when a lot of the time you just see people with perfect finished products and don't see the journey... Where could I find this sweater pattern? It's so wonderful!
This video is such a coincidence as I set up my knitting machine and ribber today to knit a new sweater! You are totally right about the machines being heavy, I didn’t screw my clamps down properly and both the machines fell on me and bruised my leg when I tried to hold it up oops 😅
I was just thinking, you could always do the sleeves in reverse. When you get up to the part where you were to attach more and stitches and increase, you would still do that but would do decreases instead. You have to move stitches over to fill the gaps, but it's very doable. Decreasing is almost always easier on a machine than increasing
The puffed sleaves look so nice in that fine soft wool.
I'm absolutely loving that thumbnail. Alliterations are the best
Nutella poking her head through the neck opening was sweet.
As someone researching knitting machines to buy a second hand one, it was very helpful to see you using a ribber with yours.
I had no idea how complicated knitting machines were! I thought they just whizzed through panels (based off of no evidence 🤣) this was very educational. But look what a gorgeous sweater you made with it.. it's really beautiful 😍 worth the struggles I'm sure. Thanks for sharing the reality of the knitting machine chaos
The emotion when it worked the first time...
LOL the moment Nutella joined you, I laughed out loud. She is precious
I'm so glad that an Engineer struggles with machinery. I am sorry it happened to u tho.😊 Vintage wins again.🎉 As always the finished work is gorgeous. Thanks for sharing.
That sweater is so beautiful.
Whenever possible cast on with waste yarn and knit the body of your garment then re hang your stitches and knit your rib downwards. I always did my cast off on waste yarn then cast off with a latch tool.
Wow! This is beautiful! Pat yourself on the back for persevering and getting there! Sending best wishes from Down Under 🥰🌼🌻🌺🌸💐🇦🇺😎
I used to be a whizz on my knitting machine and ribber. Sad to see the skills I’ve lost but your garment is beautiful. Well done for persevering. ❤😊
Oh My Dear! What an impressive display of perseverance!! Well Done!! It turned out quite beautiful. Can't wait for the next project......Mx
You manage to make a beautiful sweater. Congratulations.
Oh how I love your resilience, authenticity and also that little motivational swatch that the person sending the ribber package put 😮❤😊
Yay! Perseverance and tenacity pays off!
I love the knitting machine videos the most I think of all your content (which I really enjoy in general!) This sweater came out so cute as a bonus!
My craft room is always a struggle when I want to do the craft du jour.
Well done. Beautiful sweater. May i offer you some friendly advice, in case you want to try the sleeve technique again in the future? On the row before your increases, increase your stitch size a couple of clicks on the carriage. Obviously, you'd need to swatch it, to find the best settings for the yarn you're using. And i dare say, the increased stitch size will block out, or be unnoticeable. Good luck; there is a steep learning curve when using a knitting machine, which is amplified when you include the ribber. But stick with it, as you know, it saves alot of time and produces high quality results.
I saw your stockings video ages ago and this popped as I saw your ‘cape’ video recently! Love the jumper and it looks like the struggle is worth it :)
That sweater is magnificent! I love the closure in the back. Great job! I can hardly wait to see what the next project is. Looking forward to it!!
This is something I've always wanted, cuz I'm new and VERY slow at knitting, but now I know I can't. There's no way I know enough about knitting to fix these issues by hand 😅
I have a ribbing attachment for my knitting machine and frankly it terrifies me! Thanks for sharing this - it’s so helpful 🥰
I got ridiculously excited to see the sims on the computer screen behind you. lifelong simmer here! 💚 been binging your machine knitting videos. I’ve crocheted for several years, picked up knitting a little over a year ago, and just invested in my first flatbed knitting machine for Christmas!🎄
That is a super cute jumper. Looks lovely and soft.
Er ist wirklich traumhaft geworden. Die Arbeit hat sich sehr gelohnt!!!❤❤❤
Wow. I have no clue how you wrapped your brain around all of those challenges. I don't think a knitting machine is in my future but I'm very impressed with what you have been able to accomplish with yours.
Wow, I do not think that I would have the patience needed to work on a knitting machine. I admire you so much, and I appreciate your video. I am a huge fan of your work, and I will stay subscribed.
Ribbers can be scary! Mine came with my machine that I bought through a chance encounter. I had 3 young kids, and only used the MB for a few years. Finally, I had my husband set it up-- he's a mechanical engineer LOL. My 327, you need to push up the RB a smidge to get it to latch but it does stay.
With my bulky, I had to get the RB separately and it was not shipped properly, had some damage, and was missing some things. The main carriage had always had some issues, and then i broke something and now it can only tuck in one direction. I never get to use them because of a cramped room. Maybe someday. I used to blog all about it, going back to 2006!
Such a cute sweater! And a cute Nutella trying tthe head hole on for size!
i love this! you're inspiring me to dust of my ribber and try to get it working again!
It is a very cute sweater! I'm sorry it cost you so much trouble and pain.
Thank you for showing the full process including false starts and frustrations.
Wow!
You worked SO hard to make that sweater! Im glad you finished it. Looks very beautiful. Loving the details, the puffed sleeves, beautiful buttons and crochet edging. ❤
My guess for the next project is a bicycle sweater!!
You did GREAT!!!!!
I love your sweater, super cute! Brought back memories when my mom used to knit on a knitting machine. She brought a Knittax knitting machine from Germany, but she had an attachment that made patterns in two colors I think.
LOVE this so much! Love that sweater pattern.
I love the sweater! It reminds me very much of the ones my mother used to wear when I was a child.
Very cute! Love the sweater and I am enjoying this capsule wardrobe series. I hate sewing knitting together because I don’t do it well but I really like how the garter stitch border made the rounded corners look. I am always interested in the machine knitting. I wanted one when I was younger but I can see now I wouldn’t have been able to manage it. I love watching you apply your engineering skills to the complicated machine.
What a beautiful sweater!
I have a vintage knitting machine and they are very temperamental! I have a ribber but can't be bothered with attaching it so l generally make a provisional cast on and then do the ribbing by hand.
I love it! You've done an incredible job. It's a beautiful sweater. Thank you for sharing.
What a journey 😮! But it turned out perfect in the end, can't wait to see your future projects!
That's a really cute sweater. I hope after all the trouble and expense you went threw to make this sweater that you get years of wear out of it!
I'm sojealousofyour ribber! I have a "portable" machine that doesn't seem to have much info online, but from what I can tell they didn't make a ribber that was compatible. Im still on the lookout to get a machine that can take a ribber some day. Your sweater looks lovely :) Couldn't do a video someday explaining how you convert hand knitting patterns to machine knitting? That would be amazing
What machine do you have? There is lots of info on converting patterns, I wrote about it on my blog too, but I never did videos
Do you have the Brother or Silver Reed portable? Neither has a ribber but, they're both pretty awesome.
@@TracyKMainwaring i have the KnitKing (brother made) KH341. It really is very cool and I love the size of it. I live in Florida, so not a lot of vintage machines to be found. I was thrilled when I found this one and I snapped it up :)
@@showandtellmeg that's awesome. In the old Yahoo forums, we had quite a few MKers in Florida, but I think they were mainly transplants who brought their machines with them
@@TracyKMainwaring Yeah I got mine from a transplant who decided she won't knit sweaters in Florida after getting here lol. Its just not something that was as popular here back in the hey day of knitting machines, so at least in Central Florida they are rare. Most people retired here, so they got rid of any extraneous stuff before moving here. And at the moment I just don't have the money to try to buy one online. So I wait :)
That is a beautiful sweater!!
Thanks
Beautiful sweater.
Beautiful sweater
Beautifully done.
oh, it's gorgeous!! congratulations!!
Well done ...perseverance definitely pays off. I had my fine gauge brother knitting machine with a ribber for 20 plus years and always knit pieces separately. I have a Linker to sew the pieces together. I cannot wait to see your next project ❤
Amazing!
Beautiful! Great job!
You are such an inspiration!!! I just love your content!! Fantastic job
Remember you can choose to knit up or down. Watching you doing the sleeve. You could have knitted it up from the cuff and decreased to join to the body.
SO cute! Excellent job!
That sweater is so cute. And I find the machine and attachments fascinating!
I absolutely love your problem-solving/troubleshooting inclusions in this! I've been looking for a knitting machine for myself to speed up using all this fingering weight yarn I have, but my struggle right now is having enough space! I long for the day where I have more crafting room, but in the meantime, I've really enjoyed living vicariously through your makes. Can't wait to see what you do next with the ribber and I hope it's significantly less stressful!
I would love a video of how you adjust a pattern to your size. One of the reasons I’ve not tried to knit anything for myself yet is because I don’t think it will fit my bust :(
Such a cute sweater!!!
I would love if you could add the link in the description to the resource you used to identify the accessories that work with different vintage knitting machines. I couldn't see it in there but if it's listed somewhere else and I didn't spot it I apologise!
p.s. The method of seaming the shoulders and knitting the sleeves on flat is also my favourite technique for handknitting sweaters - only having that one lovely long seam from cuff to hem is such a dream! Thank you for another excellent video 💖
very pretty jumper, and well done.
Lovely sweater!
Fascinating (and frustrating) journey. Thank you!! Well done
That came out so beautifully!! Your perseverance is inspiring. I’m excited to see what comes next
What a journey! Thank you for taking us with you on all the highs and lows of it. The sweater turned out absolutely lovely, and I can't wait to see what you make next on your machines.
Well done!!! You look amazing! ❤ 👏👏👏
the way you persevere through setbacks inspires me every time im picking up new skills! i can’t wait to see what you make in the future :)
Congratulations on a long project. Gorgeous work.
I just love your videos, part creative, practical and technical as that is exactly how I work
Your discipline and dealing with frustration when it comes to problems is so inspiring. This sweater is gorgeous. Fantastic. So pretty and basic. Love it!
Now I want to knit one myself. Yes, I have a knitting machine (knittax am2) AND I have a kind of ribber. It's not a full ribber, because it only works with every other needle from my Main bed. But it can do ribbing.
Thank you so much for sharing your process. ❤
really love the sweater, when I see this wish I had a knitting machine too. ❤
Simply adorable result! Well done! And brava for your perseverance! 👏👏👏
I don’t have the add on but I did some ribbing on this one cardigan (never finished it) 🤔 this makes me want to pick up my (grandmothers) knitting machine from my parents place again 😅
Well done ❤ I'm trying to figure out machine knitting too
if you're having trouble near the edges, check the tension on your upper mast. Sometimes the yarn gets caught and there isn't enough slack at the start of the row. However, your reasoning is also very sound with the yarn not being able to cope with the increases! It's so frustrating because you're automatically past the break before you see it due to the carriage.
Using a hair dryer might free up the mechanics of the two accessories.
Also, ribbers have sponge bars too, if I remember. So give that a check.
Isn't it funny how people think a knitting machine is "cheating"? 😅
How sad is it that I saw the preview and said "Oh that's a Silver Reed ribbing bed"
FYI regarding the accessories. 90% of the time the issue is old grease that's hardened. I'm guessing once you take them apart, clean and relive them they'll work fine.
I've had a Toyota KS901 since the 80s... I have the ribber and the tilt table... The whole shebang. Not used it since early 90s 😂 no space to set it up. 🙄