Knitting In The Round





12 thoughts on “Knitting In The Round

  1. Nice machine. I’m curious for what speed its able to reach, at the end of the second video the knitting machine turn slower than knitting by hand. Also there only seems to be one (automated) pattern possible. Programmable patterns will be possible when every needle is individually controllable.

    I’ve seen round knitting machines before. A small one with 22 needles and hand crank is fairly in expensive, about $80,-. Complex machines with programmable patterns and multiple threads are too expensive for the hobby market.

    1. I’m a bit disappointed because I made the assumption that Arduino equals CNC pattern control. While I want to snark about an Arduino + stepper driver + NEMA23 stepper being used where a DC motor could, I’d like to believe that it’s there for future support for steppers or solenoids to control the needle lift and select different yarns.

    1. My grandmother was a seamstress and she had one of these. Made a lot of scarves and hats. Hers was very old and extremely fast. It could be programmed to select between four different spools of yarn on the fly.

  2. At the end of the video, It was going so slowly that I was wondering if it wasn’t intentional, with the idea of indicating the passing time or something like that. But it doesn’t seem to be the case. But now imagine a knitting machine, fixed on the wall, that knits a scarf per day, veeeeeery slowly, and indicates the time with numbers inserted in the partern in an other color, that would be fun :-D

      1. hahaha :-D Nice ! Thanks for sharing !
        I must say, once a year that’s way more reasonable than once a day !
        I have no idea how complicated it would be to use two colors to knit a usable calendar … I have to check how these machines work :-)

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