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Knitting - buying a second hand knitting machine
Expert: Carol Forbes - 10/27/2009
Question
Im trying to buy a second hand knitting machine. I wont use it too much or for anything too fiddley. All I want to do is knit plain and some fairisle ( i dont mind about floats). Ive seen a knitmaster sk151 on sale near me but cant find any information about whether I can do fairisle. Can you tell me what it's limited to?
Answer
I do not know for sure but I did find this reference to a 151 using Google
Knitmaster (Chunky Gauge) Machines
KM 151 (Basic without pattern mechanism) from £165
KM 155 (Punchcard) from £245
I would say this machine would only do the stockinette stitch. You can use a plain machine like this to make lace by hand-moving stitches. No machine that I know of can be programed to do a cable but any machine can be used to make a cable by hand-moving stitches. Knitting machine cannot make true ribbing without a ribber but you can run a stitch and latch up on the other side to make ribbing.
Hope this helps.
Carol
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