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You don't need special machine knitting patterns, just knit a tension swatch on your machine and pick your knitting pattern from my web pages with basic knitting patterns. If you know your knitting machine, there is nothing to it. This is how I knitted the last 15 years on my knitting machine.

But for the sake of argument, I have created a special page with 2 basic patterns for machine knitting.

machine knitting patterns

or special instructions for your knitting machine you need the manual of your machine.

free knitting patterns for baby , also machine knitting patterns 
free knitting patterns for children, also machine knitting patterns 
free knitting patterns for woman, in cms also machine knitting patterns 
free knitting patterns for woman, in inches also machine knitting patterns
free knitting patterns for men, also machine knitting patterns 

For the chunky knitting machine you need a gauge between 16 and 20 stitches
For the normal knitting machine you need a gauge between 20 and 26-28 stitches

Free machine knitting patterns motifs :
motifs for machine knitting, intarsia, single motifs and repeating motifs
4 pages; look at the navigation bar, left, knitting charts 1. 2. 3. 4

Norwegian knitting motifs , 3 pages, look at the knitting links; left
Norwegian, Nordic, fair isle 1. 2. 3 and 4

I have hundreds of free knitting machine motifs; look at the knitting links; on the left navigation bar

knitting machine need not be used to create a whole sweater or cardigan, it can be used for the ‘boring bits’ leaving time for you to concentrate on the more interesting or detailed parts.
Why spend hours (or days) knitting a large panel of knitting, when this could be created in a few hours on a knitting machine and the time instead put into creating beautiful hand-knitted fancy edgings.

Machine knitting also makes knitting with lace weight yarns feasible for those with limited time as the body of a garment can be made and then highly intricate lace panels knitted or crocheted by hand.

eople are selling this book on the internet and the knitting machine manuals too!

What a waste of your money, Brother in Canada is offering these machine knitting books and manuals for free!  Save your money and buy knitting yarn instead, don't let them fool you!

Free knitting patterns for knitting machines ( AND ALL OTHER MACHINES  ) 

DOWNLOAD FROM BROTHER .CA 

KH930-UG-patterns   or other knitting machine manuals,
307 MB !!!! SO BE PATIENT ( it took me 37 minutes, but it is worthwhile )

free brother knitting machine manuals FOR ALL TYPES

Animated gif's machine knitting tips

The knitting machine, or knitting frame, or knitting loom, or hand knitting machine, is used to produce knit fabrics on a fixed bed of hooked needles. Knitting machines can be hand powered or motor assisted. Pattern stitches can be selected by hand manipulation of the needles, or with push-buttons and dials, or mechanical punch cards, or electronic pattern reading devices and computers.

Tricot, a warp knit made with two sets of threads, is characterized by fine ribs running vertically on the fabric face and horizontally on its back. The tricot knitting machine makes light fabrics. Its development was stimulated by the invention of the FNF compound needle.

A domestic knitting machine can be used to make a wide variety of clothes or to make lengths of fabric, which can be made into garments. A knitting machine will fit on a narrow table about four feet long. When you are not using the machine, it can be put away in its own carrying case. Alternatively, some knitting machines come with their own cabinets that hide the machine.

There is no button 'sweater' on the machine, you have to learn to knit on your machine.
There is a reason why such an odd assortment of patterns is included with your machine.
Each one teaches a lesson upon which to proceed to the next pattern/level and if you fail to learn the basics
you will certainly spend too much money on waste yarn in the future.

If you are a hand knitter, you understand that in knitting, the yarn is pulled through the stitch from back to front. When purling, the needle is inserted from behind and the yarn is pulled through from front to back.
Knitting machines, only have the capability of pulling the yarn through from one direction -- so the fabrics they produce with the greatest of ease -- is stockinette.
Though we can also produce tuck, slip, fairisle or lace, they all depend on the same direction of "pull through."
To accomplish purl stitches on knitting machines, we must do "hand manipulation" (versus automatic) of the stitches, or we must investigate the following accessories:

Ribbers are separate needle beds that sit facing, and opposite, the main needlebed at a 90 degree angle.
The needles of the main bed and those of the ribber are set up to knit alternately -- first one bed, then the other. This in turn, pulls each stitch through the knitting in opposite directions, thus the "knit/purl" combination on the finished knit.
We can do variations of the "rib" - 1x1, 2x2, etc., and we can "rack" the rib from side to side giving a zig-zag effect. Can we rib without the optional piece of equipment? Yes, but only by hand knitting (or manipulating the stitches manually) or with the use of a Garter Carriage.
The ribber also permits us to make double-sided jersey fabric, and completely floatless -- doublebed (mulitcolor) jacquard. It will not do the varied, automatic, knit/purl combinations that the garter carriage (described below) will do.

A Garter Carriage is an optional, electrically propelled carriage that drives itself across the needlebed, knitting, purling, or doing a combination of those stitches, entirely by itself.
If you like the look of seed stitch, moss stitch, garter stitch, etc.- then this gadget may be for you.
It is only available for the Knitking/Brother line of knitting machines, and only available for the standard gauge. The knit pattern is determined by the electronic knitting machine or punchcard facility of the main knitter.
The garter carriage will do all these things plus the standard rib. It has been nicknamed "The Turtle" because though it chugs with determination, but knits at a snails - or rather - turtles, pace. The garter carriage will not do doublebed jacquard (two-color floatless fairisle) that the ribber (described above) will do.

A knitting machine consists of a needle bed, a carriage and yarn guides.

It may have extra attachments. The needle bed is made up of latchet hooks which hold the stitches and are similar to hooks used for rug-making, but much smaller. There is a hook facing upwards attached to a stem. Where the hook begins to curve away from the stem, a little latch (a latchet) is attached by a hinge. The latchet can move between two positions. It can lie flat along the stem, in which case the hook is open, or it can move up and over so that its tip rests on the end of the hook closing it. In this position the end of the hook makes a wedge shape and can be pulled through the stitch   taking the yarn with it.
The needles can move backwards and forwards independently.

Knitting is done by passing the carriage across the needle bed. The carriage is in two parts. One part with the handle sits on top of the needle bed and determines how far out to push the needles. The front of the carriage is screwed onto the part with the handle and sticks out in front of the machine. This part carries the yarn. The carriage knits by doing several things at the same time. It carries the yarn and it also pushes the needles forward and back again as each stitch is knitted or patterned. It causes the latchet hooks to open and close.

The carriage picks up the patterning information from the machine's memory. There are two types of memory for the stitch pattern. The older type is punched cards, which are supplied with the type of machine which uses them. Blank packs of cards are available and a hand punch so that knitters can design their own patterns or punch new cards for patterns in magazines. For a knitting machine, the punched cards consist of a plastic sheet with twenty four positions per row which can be punched or not. The card is clipped together at the ends to make a loop and moves forward every one or two rows depending on the pattern required. The carriage picks up the patterning information in its memory banks and treats the needles according to their position with a punched hole or no hole. More recent machines use electronics to transfer the patterning information.

The row counter on the machine counts the number of times the carriage has passed it, this is also the number of rows knitted. The yarn is threaded through the yarn guides from behind the machine and then through the carriage.
The carriage is usually pushed by hand, but it is possible, but more expensive, to have a motor to do this.

Weights per pound for yarn on cones

2/24 weight yarn: 5,960 yards per pound,
“lace weight” .

2/20 weight yarn: 5,600 yards per pound,
“lace weight”.

2/18 weight yarn: 5,040 yards per pound,
“lace weight” .

 2/ 8 weight yarn: 2,240 yards per pound,
“fingering weight” .

 3/ 8 weight yarn: 1,490 yards per pound,
“sport weight” .

 4/ 8 weight yarn: 1,120 yards per pound,
“DK” weight ” .

English machineknitting websites

MORE KNITTING MACHINE LINKS

Northtipton Creations:  Designs, both for sale and free; Dr. Frank's garter carriage repair information; Silver Reed machines; Brother machine sponge bars and needles; DesignaKnit, and machine knitting gadgets, and make sure you look in Roz's and Cathie's File Cabinets..   northtipton machine supplies site

Irene Woods. Books, patterns and information for MK'ers. clearwaterknits knitting machine

Ileen Levy. "Ileen's needle nook". Silver Reed machines, Brother supplies, patterns, Pre owned equipment.
Books by Maggie Andrews. ileen's machine supplies website

Sandee Cherry. Machine knitting books and patterns. sandees kwik knit knitting machine site

Stephanies Studio. sumi-soft knitting machine site

The Bivens. Machine knitting tips and free patterns. bivens knitting machine site canada

The Guild of Machine Knitters. [U.K.] machine knitting guild

Linda Irwin. Patterns and books for MK'ers. jigsawknits machine knitting site

Teeny Tiny Babies. Special clothes for special babies.
All sorts of garments for premature babies. rayofhope

Carol Sorsdahl. junebugsplace

Angelika's Yarn Store Books and patterns. machine bookes and yarn-store 

Lora Kinnan. Free patterns and MK help. daisyknits machine patterns

Uppingham Yarns. wool yarns

Joyce Wasden. Joyce's Knits. Yarn and pre owned equipment.
Joyces_machine yarns         
sympatico knitting machine yarns

Dealer for Silver Reed, Brother Distributor-parts, used machines fransmachineboutique

Free Knit Patterns, Machine and Hand Knit. Hand, and machine knitted purses.
A photo "Blog" of my latest project. webpages langkilde

SUPPLY KNITTINGMACHINEYARN AND PARTS
knittingmachines.ca
sewknit.ca       
passapcanada 
studioknittingmachines 

Tips, free patterns, charts, sock tips and tools and accessories for manual knitting machines.
knittinganyway 

Kathryn Doubrley. The Answer Lady ("Innovative Ideas for Knitters")
the answer lady knitting machine patterns
offers patterns for machine and hand knitters. A great source for felting patterns.
Patterns are sent as pdf files. Newly updated pdf technology makes for very clean printable patterns.

Perren Yarns perren knittingmachineyarn

Jo Newton. Punch card designs. jo newton knittingmachine designs

Q & A about knitting machines lots of machine knitting information

These are on-line knitting clubs. Everyone helps each other. Lots of hints and tips from experts.
Free and very easy to join.

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Carolinas Knitting Machine Guild  MKGOP  Newbritknitbargains

Machine for textile and garment production. Flatbed machines may be hand-operated or power-driven, and, by selection of colour, type of stitch, cam design, and Jacquard device, almost unlimited variety is possible. Modern circular machines may have 100 feeders, allowing each needle to pick up 100 threads per revolution. Both spring (invented c. 1589) and latch (invented 1847) needles are used, with the latter more common. Small bladelike units (sinkers) are inserted between every two needles to engage and hold the completed fabric. Machines may have pattern wheels controlling needle action to produce special stitches, and also a Jacquard mechanism.

Knitting machines differ in purpose, design, and type of knitting needles. All knitting machines may be classified according to the number bf knitting needles per unit length of the needle cylinder. The most widely accepted system uses the English inch (1 inch = 25.4 mm) to measure the length of the needle cylinder. Machines produced in the USSR range in gauge from 3 to 36. The higher the gauge, the finer the fabric produced. For example, 34-gauge machines are used for knitting fine stockings; here, the gauge corresponds to the spacing of the needles 0.75 mm apart in the needle cylinder.

The principal knitting parts of a knitting machine are the looper, the yarn feed motion, and the take-up motion. The looper contains the needle cylinder with the needles, sinkers, a presser (for spring needles), yarn guides, and other elements. The sinkers, blades with complex shapes, bend the yarn into loops and move the yarn along the shaft of the needle (if the needles are stationary) or hold it (if the needles are moving); one sinker is usually positioned in each space between the needles. The presser, in the form of a wedge, plate, or disk, presses on the needle hook and prevents the loops from falling into the hook.

In addition to industrial knitting machines, home hand-knitting machines and devices are also produced. The primary assemblies in hand machines are the loop-forming elements (latch needles and sinkers), carriage, and row counter. The carriage controls the action of the needles and the sinkers; it is moved by hand along guide tracks. The knitting devices have pull-out hooks, a rack with pins, on which the loops are manually hung, and straightedges, by which the hooks are moved and the tightness of the knit is adjusted.