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artisan knitting machine question
I'm doing fair aisle with a punch card, fairly new at this. I did the back
of the sweater and now halfway up the front, the second yarn stops knitting. It just floats across the fabric. Anyone know why it stopped knitting? The main yarn continues to knit. The second yarn will sometimes knit halfway across but mostly not at all. |
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toypup wrote:
I'm doing fair aisle with a punch card, fairly new at this. I did the back of the sweater and now halfway up the front, the second yarn stops knitting. It just floats across the fabric. Anyone know why it stopped knitting? The main yarn continues to knit. The second yarn will sometimes knit halfway across but mostly not at all. Make sure that it is in the slot on the carriage where it belongs, and that the tension on the yarn is not too tight. Sometimes yarn gets caught somewhere on the path from cone to carriage and doesn't have enough slack to knit in. -- Joanne stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/ |
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This may sound stupid but are you sure the second yarn in properly threaded
through the yarn feeder? Are the needles for the contrast color pulled out to the correct position? That's all I can think of. Shannon (Ontario, Canada) |
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"Shannon" wrote in message ... This may sound stupid but are you sure the second yarn in properly threaded through the yarn feeder? Are the needles for the contrast color pulled out to the correct position? That's all I can think of. Shannon (Ontario, Canada) Thanks for the replies. It was properly threaded. I gave up and started over. Halfway through, I had to unravel and the problem started again. Thinking about it, the first time I unravelled was when it all started, so I figure it was the tension, but I couldn't figure out how to get the tension just right after unravelling. I tried cutting and tying the loose yarn to end of the piece near the carriage so that it was mostly pulling from the cone instead of loose yarn off the floor and that worked. |
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toypup wrote:
"Shannon" wrote in message ... This may sound stupid but are you sure the second yarn in properly threaded through the yarn feeder? Are the needles for the contrast color pulled out to the correct position? That's all I can think of. Shannon (Ontario, Canada) Thanks for the replies. It was properly threaded. I gave up and started over. Halfway through, I had to unravel and the problem started again. Thinking about it, the first time I unravelled was when it all started, so I figure it was the tension, but I couldn't figure out how to get the tension just right after unravelling. I tried cutting and tying the loose yarn to end of the piece near the carriage so that it was mostly pulling from the cone instead of loose yarn off the floor and that worked. Good thinking! You do need tension on the yarns as they feed - but neither too much nor too little. The need for tension will be different when doing fair isle, then for plain knitting, and different again for tuck stitch, and of course, different for ribbing. Part of this is getting to know your machine. Pulling from the cone for tension is a temporary fix because as the cone becomes smaller, the "pull" changes. Mainly, you want to have the yarn feeding freely from the cone, then apply tension as it passes through the tension wheel on the mast. When this is set the way it works best, make a note of the yarn, the stitch, and the tension number in a little notebook for future reference. Good luck with your knitting. -- Joanne stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/ |
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"Pogonip" wrote in message ... toypup wrote: Thanks for the replies. It was properly threaded. I gave up and started over. Halfway through, I had to unravel and the problem started again. Thinking about it, the first time I unravelled was when it all started, so I figure it was the tension, but I couldn't figure out how to get the tension just right after unravelling. I tried cutting and tying the loose yarn to end of the piece near the carriage so that it was mostly pulling from the cone instead of loose yarn off the floor and that worked. Good thinking! You do need tension on the yarns as they feed - but neither too much nor too little. The need for tension will be different when doing fair isle, then for plain knitting, and different again for tuck stitch, and of course, different for ribbing. The yarn does seem to flow freely from the cone, so I'm not really sure why my fix worked, except maybe it's really sensitive to tension? I do use a tension wheel and everything. It goes through the tension wheel and everything was the same before and after my fix. I don't know what it is, but I'm glad my fix worked. |
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toypup wrote:
The yarn does seem to flow freely from the cone, so I'm not really sure why my fix worked, except maybe it's really sensitive to tension? I do use a tension wheel and everything. It goes through the tension wheel and everything was the same before and after my fix. I don't know what it is, but I'm glad my fix worked. Did I mention that sometimes it's the way you hold your mouth? There are gremlins in every knitting machine I've ever had or used, and they are sensitive to some unusual things -- at least that's the conclusion I've drawn. Others may have a different opinion....... -- Joanne stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/ |
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Pogonip wrote:
toypup wrote: The yarn does seem to flow freely from the cone, so I'm not really sure why my fix worked, except maybe it's really sensitive to tension? I do use a tension wheel and everything. It goes through the tension wheel and everything was the same before and after my fix. I don't know what it is, but I'm glad my fix worked. Did I mention that sometimes it's the way you hold your mouth? There are gremlins in every knitting machine I've ever had or used, and they are sensitive to some unusual things -- at least that's the conclusion I've drawn. Others may have a different opinion....... It's not just me, then? |
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S Viemeister wrote:
Pogonip wrote: Did I mention that sometimes it's the way you hold your mouth? There are gremlins in every knitting machine I've ever had or used, and they are sensitive to some unusual things -- at least that's the conclusion I've drawn. Others may have a different opinion....... It's not just me, then? No, no, not at all! Sometimes I find it helps to sacrifice some yarn, which I don't mind if it's yarn I'm not too fond of. -- Joanne stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/ |
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