Canadian Machine Knitting Page
No frills eh? ;) ... just help sheets, free patterns and links
Nanaimo, British Columbia
Studio replacement needles- wondering what needles fit your machine?
If you are in the U.S. check out Irene Woods' site Clearwater Knits for a dealer near you. You'll also find a LK150 tutorial there.
Looking for similar style information charts on Brother Machines, including garter carriages and which machines they fit? Then check out the great pages at Lora Kinnan's "Daisy Knits" site. This will take you to the index page - scroll down for the link to the charts and other goodies. Free patterns there too!!
There was a great Passap site in the U.K., done by Woolleys but it seems to have disappeared and has been taken over by one of those annoying, go nowhere, search pages, that just waste our time! It did have the history of Passap machines, a wonderful chart for Duo 80 owners that gives the E6000 machine techniques to help you in following those E6000 patterns, a "find a part number" spot and other goodies. If you know where it has moved to, please let me know....
Got a Superba and wish you could find more information on it? Check out the Superba/White/Singer page (White in Canada, Singer in Britain, also sold as Phildar, we're not confused are we?) at www.geocities.com/whissps/ and also a wonderful blogspot at www.superbaknitting.blogspot.com where Patrick Madden has done a fabulous job explaining how to set up the machine and how to clean it. Also, another web site of interest is a french site http://passiontricot.logipatch.com (helps if you speak french - click on the ball of yarn bottom right and then on "Machines" when you get to the next page) and also check out http://www.myrocks.com/index.htm If you need parts for your machine check with Peter Smith at Passap Canada. There's also a Superba e-mail list group at http://www.listhost.com/archives/white-superba.html and a Yahoo Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/superbawhite that you can join. The Yahoo group has photos of machines that you can look at to figure out what model you have bought if you are in doubt. I own a Superba 1502 and I am really impressed with this machine - you can see a couple of photos of my machine here and some of a Singer/Superba 1602 here and also a couple of photos of an older Singer/Superba (possibly called a Chantelaine) .
If you are looking for software for your computer to design patterns or punchcard patterns, then there's a few you can check out: Sweater Wizard, Garment Styler by Cochenille, Design-a-Pattern, Knitware, and of course the biggie, Designaknit. There's a new knitting software program, and you can find it at www.wildstitches.com. And, for a small yearly fee you can access a pattern generator done by the Lucia Liljegren otherwise known as the Knitting Fiend.
There are lots of great sites to obtain information. In particular check out www.machine-knit.com you can find lists here for various machines and a for sale site that you can join. Also on Yahoo Groups there are various sites dedicated to knitting machines. The Superba one is mentioned above but there is also "SingerStudioMachineKnitters", "Singer 360-700", "knittingmachines", "knitting-forsale", "kmaholics", "Brother-knitting-Machines", "DAK-Learnalong", "passap-forsale", "PassapClub", "PASSAPknits", "passapknitting", "ukmachineknittingmeetingroom", and there's probably more I haven't found yet!
If you are looking for punchcard patterns I have a page devoted to free ones. Also Linda Jackson has beautiful charted design collections for machine knitting, handknitting and needlework at www.artika.co.uk.
Gallery - just photos of a few things ........... hopefully sometime or other I will post some more!!.
Free Patterns for the Standard Machine - 4.5 mm
Free Patterns for the LK150 - 6.5 mid-gauge
Free Patterns for the Chunky Machine - 9 mm
Help Sheets - for beginners - written with Studio/Silver Reed steel-bed punchcard machines in mind.
Updated March 18, 2009
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