Joann exited bankruptcy on April 30, they're back in business :) okay back to the video

"So we feed it through the thingies, and then through the thingies..." 😆 I've been knitting by hand for 18 years now, and your videos make me want a machine.

Did I watch this whole video and enjoy it? Yes. Will I ever buy a knitting machine? Probably not. I just love learning new things and machine knitting is just close enough to hand knitting that I always find your videos fascinating.

I would watch an entire video of you just running the carriage back and forth. Would you consider doing an ASMR style video of just that?

The nylon thread/ yarn I used to make dog leashes

Made baby blankets with Mandala Baby double stranded on my bulky machine. Made a nice fabric. Went through four skeins, blanket would’ve been a nicer size with six. Made myself a lap blanket out of the Puzzle yarn in Backgammon color way on my bulky. Great colors, nicely randomized. Curls like crazy, not a surprise.

Thanks for the video, it was educational. I would be interested in seeing sowmthing similar with your standard guage machine. I got one second hand a couple of years ago and have struggled to find yarns at my nearby craft stores that work with it

I usually use my LK150 to knit the stockinette parts of otherwise hand knit sweaters, so I mostly use local yarn store yarns. I find that fingering to DK works best on the machine, sometimes a very light worsted. I haven't had issues with most cottons, you just need extra weights on the edges especially. But then again I use sweater cottons, not dishcloth-type cotton.

Love the mic XD

Very helpful video. Thank you.

For issues like you had with the red nylon spool, you might get a cone thread holder. Dritz makes one, but there are other makers too. I use one to keep spools, cakes, and cones feeding more smoothly into my lk-150 and standard gauge machines. The cone holder has a stem you put the yarn on, and above that is a hook to help feed the yarn to the km mast. Wait, that nylon is in a spool format. I wonder if it would feed ok if it was on a vertical lazy kate like they use for spinning.

Thank you so much for this video. Very helpful as are all your videos!

Fun and practical video. Thank you!

A really helpful video. Thank you.

Great video. Consider using a spray on wax for your more difficult yarns. I use Ballistol for metal knitter beds and I use Armor All to spray on cotton and other stiff yarn cakes.

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When rewinding balls, I have had good success using my lazy kate with the yarn spike to keep them from rolling all over. It would probably help with that crochet thread on a tube too. I have the lazy kate from Dreaming Robots. Cheap, and doesn't take up much space when disassembled.

You will have seen it during the edit, but the red nylon spool toppled over when loops fell beneath it and then tightened around the core of the spool. A plastic net, as comes with any serger, can be pulled over the spool and will prevent loops falling down. With the cotton crochet yarn, I cannot imagine the problem being the tension of the yarn itself because this takes effect rather on circular knits. Even in hand knitting, and certainly on factory-made jersey which is made on a circular knitting machine as a tubular knit. So t-shirts tend to twist up in the wash. But with the to-and-fro movement of the carriage one would expect the effect to compensate itself. I used yarn such as this years ago and it was a horror to knit, but the swatches did not parallelogram on me. I hadn't rewound the ball, though. Maybe it wasn't relaxed on the cake any more.

Great video, I have seen a store crochet style beach cover up but it’s definitely been knit by machine, I wonder if it’s possible to emulate ‘crochet’ on a home knitting machine….

Hated the Coboo. The splittiest yarn I’ve ever used. Tried knitting it on my SK860, tried to do hand transferred lace - impossible.

I’m not sure if Walmart in the US carries the Caron Colorama Halo yarn or not. Canadian Walmart does and I used it to make a cardigan for a birthday gift on my Lk 150. It worked great and has nice drape and is also a very soft.

Do you have tension recommendations for each yarn tested?

Um, I don't see the link to the jumbo yarn winder am I missing it?

This is amazing! Since you have all of the yarns, do you have plans to try this on one of the brother machines, like the 930/40?

I feel like the nylon thread would make a good ravel cord?

Hallo, why rules ? It is natural, and menmade yarn. It is to big, just fine or tooo fine. 😊please could you, give the tensing.?

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using the Lord"s name in vain put me off immediately. will never watch your videos again