Hi Brianna,
Thank you for all the very helpful information – I’m definitely impressed and delighted to have found you.
In the knitting machine category do you use flatbed machines like the LK 150 or the bulky Singer 155? I don’t have an Addi but I enjoy using the ones mentioned. I’m also a beginner at learning hand knitting and crochet although I’ve had more experience with loom knitting. Thanks again.
Wib
Hi! I’m glad you’ve found some of the info helpful. I do not have a flatbed knitting machine, so most of my blog posts on machine knitting are for the Addi machines. I hope this helps!
Hello! Thank you for your question. Because the Addi always knits into stitches from the right side, it always makes stockinette stitch fabric. If you knit one row and purl the next, knit one row and purl the next, etc, you will create garter stitch. This does not curl, but making a purl stitch requires hand-manipulating the stitch. It is possible to manipulate all the stitches in the row, but it is more time-consuming than regular stockinette. I don’t have a video on how to do that yet, but I will add that to my list of possible future videos. Ribbing (which alternates knit and purl columns instead of knit and purl rows) does not curl, and is a bit easier to do. Here is a video on how to work ribbing on the Addi Knitting Machine. You can also substitute a tube instead of a panel in your project. You would knit a tube, but lay it flat and treat it like a flat panel. It is like a double-sided flat panel, and looks just as good from the wrong side as it does from the right side. Here is a video on making a flat scarf from a tube, and here is a video on seaming flat tubes together to create a wider flat tube. Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any more questions!
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Wib Dawson
Hi Brianna,
Thank you for all the very helpful information – I’m definitely impressed and delighted to have found you.
In the knitting machine category do you use flatbed machines like the LK 150 or the bulky Singer 155? I don’t have an Addi but I enjoy using the ones mentioned. I’m also a beginner at learning hand knitting and crochet although I’ve had more experience with loom knitting. Thanks again.
Wib
Yay for Yarn
Hi! I’m glad you’ve found some of the info helpful. I do not have a flatbed knitting machine, so most of my blog posts on machine knitting are for the Addi machines. I hope this helps!
Paul Kimball
I have the addi express, how can I knit one row and purl one row after the other so to make a panel that doesnt curl
Yay for Yarn
Hello! Thank you for your question. Because the Addi always knits into stitches from the right side, it always makes stockinette stitch fabric. If you knit one row and purl the next, knit one row and purl the next, etc, you will create garter stitch. This does not curl, but making a purl stitch requires hand-manipulating the stitch. It is possible to manipulate all the stitches in the row, but it is more time-consuming than regular stockinette. I don’t have a video on how to do that yet, but I will add that to my list of possible future videos. Ribbing (which alternates knit and purl columns instead of knit and purl rows) does not curl, and is a bit easier to do. Here is a video on how to work ribbing on the Addi Knitting Machine. You can also substitute a tube instead of a panel in your project. You would knit a tube, but lay it flat and treat it like a flat panel. It is like a double-sided flat panel, and looks just as good from the wrong side as it does from the right side. Here is a video on making a flat scarf from a tube, and here is a video on seaming flat tubes together to create a wider flat tube. Hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any more questions!
Lorraine
Thank you any more help would be helpful
Lorraine