Category: Basic/Manual
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Simple Seven Knitting machine by KnitKing
Simple Seven knitting machine released to the market under the KnitKing brand name is identical to the Brother KX350 knitting machine. Read more about all the pros and cons and details in the article on Brother KX350 while enjoying the pictures of Simple Seven below.
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Mattel Knitting machine, 16 needles
Mattel’s circular plastic knitting machine was released to the market in 1975 by the toy company Mattel. It has 16 needles and can only knit simple stockinet stitches. Some patterning is possible with manual stitch manipulation. It is a simple small knitting machine capable of forming stitches when the handle is cranked in circular motion.…
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Brother KH220 knitting machine
Brother KH220 knitting machine is a bulky (9 mm gauge) machine with only manual capabilities. It features 110 needles. I did not knit on this machine but is looks very similar, if not identical, to Brother KH210 that I had a chance to work on: the color combination, the carriage shape, the needle markings, etc.…
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Brother KR551 ribbing attachment
Ribbing attachment Brother KR551 was released to the market in the mid-1960s. It has 200 needles positioned 4.5 mm apart. This ribber fits Brother KH500, KH550 and KH551 knitting machines. It is one of the first ribbing attachments released to the market yet it is still capable of doing a lot of different patterns. I…
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Studio SRN321 ribbing attachment
Ribbing attachments, or ribbers, add-ons to main knitting machines to convert 200 needle knitting machine into a 400 needle unit. Additionally, the ribbers can knit purl stitches without hand manipulations. They offer also other patterning possibilities depending on the ribber itself as well as machine/ribber combination. Studio SRN-321 ribber was made to match Studio and…
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Singer HK100 knitting machine
Singer HK100 knitting machine is a plastic flat bed knitting machine. The needles are large and are 8 mm apart. It was released to the marker in 1983. The simplicity of this machine (only basic/manual patterning capabilities) and its plastic bed makes me think that the target audience was the hobbyists, looking to destash their…
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Brother KR830 ribbing attachment
Brother KR830 ribbing attachment was developed to convert a single-bed standard-gauge flat-bed knitting machine into a double-bed knitting setup. There is not specific information on when exactly these appeared on the market but very likely around the same time as the main bed. Brother KR830 ribber features 200 needles, spaced 4.5 mm apart. It fits…
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Brother KH500
Brother Profile 500 is a metal flatbed knitting machine with 200 needles 4.5 mm apart. It is a standard gauge machine with only basic patterning capabilities. Additionally, the end-caps are not plastic (like later Brother knitting machines) but metal, which makes them more robust and less prone to breaking (especially during shipment and transport) and…
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Brother KX350 knitting machine
Brother KX350 Home Knitter (also known as KnitKing Simple Seven) is a plastic-bed knitting machine with only basic/manual capabilities of manipulating stitches. It has 132 needles, positioned 7 mm apart. It is considered a mid-gauge knitting machine. It was manufactured and released to the market sometime in the early 1980-ies as a hobbyist and inexpensive…