It's been over 25 years since I looked at knitting machines, so I can hardly be expected to know everything about modern ones. I have seen that the comparatively simple knitting looms that were around when I looked 25 years ago are still available. And actually, the prices are so low, it's not that expensive to buy one each for fine, medium, and thick yarn. But y'know, I love equipment, and I want the latest in knitting machines. They seem to be rather out of fashion. There was a time when everybody had to have a sewing machine and a knitting machine, then they had to have a sewing machine and a serger, now they have to have an embroidery sewing machine.
For some reason, when I was a kid and my mother introduced me to crochet and knitting, I liked crochet and I disliked knitting. I couldn't stand counting stitches when knitting; but then I was pretty young. Just the same I'd be interested in a home crocheting loom if there is such a thing. I spent five minutes on the net, and what I found is (a) instructions for doing a crochet stitch on a knitting machine and (b) simple devices for hairpin crochet--I had one of those when I was a kid too. Fran > > A modern knitting machine bed is usually a long chunk of aluminum with > small carefully spaced machined channels in which the needles lie. > It's a simple and effective design, with very tight tolerances. The > practicality of engineering a bed with variable-depth and variable- > width channels so hundreds of needles can be replaced with a different > number of different-sized needles that require different spacing in > the same area is absurd. > > andy > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
