Guide to Knitting Techniques for Machine Knitters
by the Silver Knitting Institute. This book is out of print, but we managed to locate and purchased what was left.
This guide picks up where most manuals leave off.
Machine Knitting Techniques covered for the main bed:
- 3 Cast ons: Winding (usually referred to e-wrap), Chain Stitch (using latch hook or crochet hook) and casting on for mock rib.
- Decreases for both single and multiple stitches, as well as fully fashioned decreases.
- Increases for both single and multiple stitches, as well as fully fashioned decreases.
- Partial Knitting for shaping on every other row, and every row, for both increasing and decreasing.
- Using Waste Knitting for knit and ribbed stitches, or holding stitches.
- Replacing stitches from ravel cord (used in shaping), hem work and picking up from the sides for seaming.
- Design techniques such as a vertical pleat, and a horizontal clean fold row.
- Placing yarn marks on a side or middle stitch, vertically or horizontally through stitches.
- Binding off methods such as back stitch, latch tool, chain or gathering up.
- Hem techniques such as knitted in hems, picot hems on both beginning, end and sides.
- Numerous joining techniques.
- Buttonholes: single, vertical, horizontal and double (folded) buttonholes.
Machine Knitting Techniques covered for the ribber bed:
- Increasing in 2x2 rib for both single, double or multiple stitches.
- Decreases in 2x2 rib for both single, double or multiple stitches.
- Increasing and decreasing when using the swing ribbed technique.
- Using Waste Knitting in tubular knitting.
- Vertical button holes in ribbing.
Machine Knitting Techniques covered for joining:
- Grafting. (purl to purl or knit to knit)
- Open Stitches to side stitches.
- Blind (or invisible) for seaming sides, in stockinet, garter or ribbed fabric.
- Closing (binding off) open stitches using the slip stitch technique for stockinet.
- Closing (binding off) open stitches in 1x1 rib and 2x2 rib.
Machine Knitting Techniques and more
- Grafting Method
- Sewn on Hem
- Buttonholes by Handwork
- Crochet Buttonhole Loop
- Trimming with crochet.
- Trimming buttonhole with crochet.
- Inserting pockets