Tips, Tricks, and Inspiration:

(Listed in no particular order.....)

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• Susan Guagliumi has had more than 30 years in the knitting machine biz, and has authored 4 incredible books on machine knitting. Errata sheet for Susan Guagliumi's Hand Manipulated Stitches.

• The Answer Lady is a designer working in machine, loom & hand knitting as well as crochet, sewing and other needle arts. Jack fixes absolutely everything, and how great videos on YouTube for DIY machine repairs.

• Knitology 1x1 for knitting related videos and tutorials for machine knitters.

• Roberta Rose Meads for 100s of machine knitting video tutorials.

• Alessandrina has many single bed and double bed MK techniques throughly explained and documented.

• Creative Tien for weekly YouTube videos and blog posts about hand and machine knitting, crochet, and sewing tutorials, as well as tool reviews and resources.

• Juan's Knitting Garage for quick tricks to make your machine knitting more enjoyable, complete garments faster and with professional finishes.

• Diana Sullivan is absolutely crazy about machine knitting! She's got MK books, video tutorials, patterns, and more.

• The Knitting School offers short tutorials in machine knitting for professionals, hobbyists and small businesses.

• Sister Mountain is a website devoted to teaching enthusiastic knitters how to design and sell their own knitting patterns in multiples sizes.

• Machine Knit Community is a new global community of machine knitters - an online space for machine knitters of all abilities to develop skills, habits & rituals to get the most from your machine.

• The Handy Machine Knitting podcast, hosted by Julie Boylan. Julie loves hand and machine knitting and touches on both topics in every episode.

• Knitting Machine Manuals - they're downloadable and FREE!

• The Color Wheel to help you sort out complementary, split-complementary, triadic, and more color combos.

• Needles of Steel

• Needles to Say

• Tom Machine Knitting Guy

• Rocking Horse Farm

 

Circular Sock Machine Sites

• Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine Company (manufacturer/seller of Erlbacher Gearhart Circular Sock Machines)

• Circular Sock Knitting Machine Society

• Knottyewe’s Blog

• Mad City Crankers

• Yellow River Station (CSM Home Courses)

 

Knitting Machine Dealers – Within Minnesota

• Carole’s Country Knits at Rocking Horse Farms

• Custom Knits and Manufacturing

• Cindy’s Knitting Room

• Knit and Sew World

• Deb’s Knits

 

Knitting Machine Dealers Outside of Minnesota

• Knit Knack Shop

• Distinctive Knits

• Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine Company (circular sock machines)

 

Other Machine Knitting Sites

• Knitting Machines, etc. (free online knitting machine manuals and books)

• Hong Kong Knitting Machine

• Knit it now

• The Knit Tree

• Knittsings (free online knitting machine manuals and books)

• Marcia Hauser

• Passap Canada (repair manuals, parts, general repair for Passap, Superba/White)

• Peter Patchis Yarns

• Ravelry

• Sandee’s Kwik Knit

• Superba Knitting (manuals, parts, tutorials on Superba/White/Singer Machines)

• Textile Center of Minnesota

 

Other Guilds and Clubs

• Central Minnesota Machine Knitting Guild

• Machine Knitting Guild of Minnesota

• TechKnitters Machine Knitting Club (Chicago suburbs)

• Machine Knitters Guild of San Diego

• DFW Machine Knitters Guild

• Carolinas Machine Knitters Guild

• Grand Rapids Machine Knitters Guild

• InterKnit Machine Knitters Guild