Knitting machine: from student to professional

Course details

So you are the owner of the single-needle-bed knitting machine, but how to work on it, why it has such a number of accessories and how to use them properly - you have not yet found out.

After studying this course, you will use this knowledge many times and return the invested funds repeatedly.

Dry instruction does not help. Information online is spread, to find and to accumulate everything need more than one month. That's why we created this video course about work on the single-needle-bed knitting machine at an example of the most popular model Silver Reed SK280.

The course format - more than two hours of video tutorials. There shown all the key moments to work with the single-needle-bed knitting machine. No one of the tutorial's subjects is stated in the instructions for knitting machines.

This is not an e-book, and not a pass reading of manual in the camera. It is a real video guide for working on a knitting machine. This course gives only practical exercises, the work of machine is considered in details: from the machine installation to patterns' calculation, helping in work little.

Recording this course I share my knowledge and many years experience of knitting on different machines, therefore you will be able short terms to achieve results in working with the single-needle-bed knitting machine.

Subjects considered in video course:

Lesson 1

1 Device and accessories

2 Machine installation

3 Main carriage

4 Yarns' tucking in

Lesson 2 Single-needle-bed loops' picking up

5 Picking up loops by instruction

6 Picking up of edge by twisting

7 Picking up of loops with a auxiliary yarn

8 Work with an auxiliary yarn

9 Picking up loops by manually elongated loops

10 Consideration of the knitted samples

Lesson 3 Patterns on the base of stocking-stitch structure

11 Gofren imitation

12 Knitting of strips

13 Stripping with color switcher

14 Manual weaving

15 Plating

Lesson 4 Single-needle-bed knitting with the punch card

16 Preparation to work with punch card

17 Press-off knitting with the punch card

18 Slip-pattern knitting with the punch card

19 Stockinet pattern

20 Motive

21 Jacquard

22 Colored press-offs

23 Slip-pattern

24 Punch lace

25 Press-off at exposure

26 Samples

Lesson 5 Calculations

27 Loops calculation from sample. Bonus

28 Carriage removal

29 Needles replacement