Category: Gauge

  • 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…

  • Brother Profile 551 knitting machine

    Brother Profile 551 knitting machine (sometimes called Brother KH551) is a standard gauge machine (with the space between needles equal to 4.5 mm). It was released to the market by Brother in 1960-ies. No other brand names exist to the best of my knowledge. I have no idea why these earlier models are called “Profile”…

  • Brother KH830 knitting machine

    Brother KH830 knitting machine was manufactured by Brother and released to the market in the late 1970-ies. Sometimes is branded as KnitKing. This is a standard knitting machine with 200 needles positioned 4.5 mm apart. Comes with a detachable row counter (available in my store), a two-thread yarn mast and a 24-hole (in one row)…