Knitting by Machine

In the past, I had some of you interested in seeing more of my machine knit sweaters.  This week the temps have been cooler, therefore, putting me in a knitting mood.  My craft show boxes were screaming at me to get some more kid sweaters made, so that is what I concentrated on.

Some people have never seen a knitting machine-have you?

When we are knitting, we never see the right side of the garment until we take it off the machine.  Here is a red sweater in progress, the green and gray yarns make up the tractor, dirt and cloud puff from the tractor.  This is the front of the sweater up to the armhole area. I put in markers where the sleeve will begin, and then knit to the neck and begin shaping.  I have to hand manipulate stitches to form the neckline.

Once the back and front of the sweater are knit I put one shoulder seam together(using the machine).  Then knit the ribbing for the neckline and attach it and put the other shoulder seam together.  The sleeves are knit by first picking up the required number of stitches along the sleeve area of the sweater, putting them on the machine and I am ready to begin the sleeve shaping. 

Here is a sweater that is all knitted. After I use a bit of steam to set the stitches, it is time to hand sew the seams. That is usually my evening work while watching TV.

Completed sweaters.

The other thing I like to do is make the front and back of the sweater from fleece and knit the sleeves and bands.  Here the parts are all steamed and ready to be sewn onto the fleece using the DSM.

All done!

I'll be joining my favorite Friday linky parties, (Sarah and Myra)  Won't you join in too, we love seeing your work.