In my search for ways to make knitted items faster, I decided to check out a knitting machine. There are quite a few on the market, but my thought was to get an inexpensive one to play around with, in case it became a failed experiment. I checked out Ebay, and found tons of machines, from $20 to over $10,000! The one I chose is a Bond Incredible Sweater Machine, which has a plastic bed and carriage.
It took a little time to get the bugs out of it, but now have it working pretty well. It is very fast to make a simple stockinette stitch, but when you start doing some kin
d of pattern, you have to hand manipulate the stitches, which takes some time. Still, I think it has some potential for certain things, and the idea of upgrading at some point is not out of the question.
You can see some samples I ma
de here, just playing around.
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