Knitting machine Question

**Missy** · 01-01-2004, 05:52 PM

is it possible to take a hand knitting pattern and make it into a pattern i can use on th eknitting machine? I want to learn how to knit on the purl side (so it will be a purl on the knit side) so i can make textured patterns on the front side of the (well both sides) dishcloth/ wash cloth. How would i go about this?

**Missy** · 01-07-2004, 01:24 PM

Diana? Do you know how to do it? Anyone?

**canadian gardener** · 01-07-2004, 02:09 PM

not me, I don't have a machine, but they always sound like they are fun to have.

did it come with a booklet?

if you get a machine second hand sometimes you can get the instruction booklet online at the manufacturers site or email them direct with your question.

sorry, I'm not more help. I only do hand knitting.

**SewCrafty** · 01-07-2004, 02:31 PM

Melissa do you have a pattern in mind? One you could direct me to on the web?

**Missy** · 01-07-2004, 02:54 PM

these ones I'd like to learn, and i think they'd be small enough projects to use to learn a technique. the simple rideg one has caught my eye. Thanks so much Diana!

http://www.bernat.com/pattern.php?PID=244

Thanks for tryin Margery

! I am glad to see you here in the needlecrafts forum, I just recently learned to knit by hand and then for christmas dh got me a machine. I am learnig slowly how to use it, but the machines directions are a bit confusing.

**Missy** · 01-07-2004, 03:12 PM

oooh! or this pattern!

http://www.keyway.net/crafts/trudy.html

maybe this one would be easier done by hand, huh?

**canadian gardener** · 01-07-2004, 03:17 PM

well they are all pretty! I really like the ridge ones, but basketweave looks nice too. Did you want to do them by hand and then try them on your machine?

**Missy** · 01-07-2004, 03:19 PM

I want to try them on my machine to learn how to do decorative stitches. the knitting machine only does stockingette. but there is a way to do decorative stitches. I thought a washcloth project would be small enough to not get too frustrated, but enough to learn how to do the ribbing, and decorative stitches.

**canadian gardener** · 01-07-2004, 03:21 PM

sorry I posted same time as you, just after.

I see, that makes perfect sense.

If you like dishcloth patterns, I enjoy this site. http://www.jimsyldesign.com/~dishbou...javaindex.html

and something my sister in law who is my knitting person to ask, told me a tip

and that is, try any stitch pattern that you plan to knit in a bigger project, like a sweater or shawl, on a dishcloth using cotton yarn first.

that way you can see if it's easy enough to keep doing thru a whole project.

If not, then you have another good dishcloth.

I've been playing with a stitch that I got from Knitter's magazine a simple looking sweater--but I won't make it, the dishcloth is enough.

it saved me a lot of expense buying the yarn for the big sweater.

**SewCrafty** · 01-07-2004, 04:25 PM

That is a good tip from you sil, Margery!

Melissa, both of those can be done on the machine, BUT it will take a lot of work reworking the stitches. You feel up to that?

**Missy** · 01-07-2004, 04:29 PM

i noticed that after i posted. maybe i can fins a pattern or two that are easier with not as much hand work.

OH! can the knitting be taken off the machine, flipped over, and put back on the machine?

maybe that would work???

hmmmmm

**SewCrafty** · 01-07-2004, 04:41 PM

Possible, but you would drop stitches really easy and when they go it is like getting a run in your pantyhose.

Garter stitch is a pain to do on a knitting machine, how about we (you and I) design one with a couple different stitches to learn. Then we could do another one with a two different stitches in them. You will still have 2 new dishcloths in the end. What do ya think?