Which Walmart yarns will knit on the Lk-150?

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@PastryFanatic40789 5 күн бұрын

I find your perspective so interesting -- the way you talk about yarn is totally different than handknitting. And I'm learning so much! Hope to explore the machine side of things one day.

@terralia644 5 ай бұрын

Joann exited bankruptcy on April 30, they're back in business :) okay back to the video

@JonathanMMatthews 4 ай бұрын

"So we feed it through the thingies, and then through the thingies..." 😆 I've been knitting by hand for 18 years now, and your videos make me want a machine.

@moonbasket 5 ай бұрын

Did I watch this whole video and enjoy it? Yes. Will I ever buy a knitting machine? Probably not. I just love learning new things and machine knitting is just close enough to hand knitting that I always find your videos fascinating.

@allymwolves 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the video, it was educational. I would be interested in seeing sowmthing similar with your standard guage machine. I got one second hand a couple of years ago and have struggled to find yarns at my nearby craft stores that work with it

@janatherton9194 5 ай бұрын

Webs and Halcyon yarns online both have some good options for coned yarn, especially wool and wool blends. Michaels stores also have some sock yarns such as Paton's Kroy.

@keelieyohara7246 5 ай бұрын

Great video. Consider using a spray on wax for your more difficult yarns. I use Ballistol for metal knitter beds and I use Armor All to spray on cotton and other stiff yarn cakes.

@lizm1840 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for this video. Very helpful as are all your videos!

@tfpanda9050 5 ай бұрын

Very helpful video. Thank you.

@louisianacooker 3 ай бұрын

I have an LK150 and knitted a short, raglan sleeve sweater with the Bernat Baby yarn in the color way you have. It is perfect to wear with jeans. I am loving your channel.

@kaiyune472 3 ай бұрын

I've ordered my knitting machine and should have it by next week. Thank you so much for inspiring me to give machine knitting another try!

@thenewalex 5 ай бұрын

Love the mic XD

@daramclaughlin7234 5 ай бұрын

For issues like you had with the red nylon spool, you might get a cone thread holder. Dritz makes one, but there are other makers too. I use one to keep spools, cakes, and cones feeding more smoothly into my lk-150 and standard gauge machines. The cone holder has a stem you put the yarn on, and above that is a hook to help feed the yarn to the km mast. Wait, that nylon is in a spool format. I wonder if it would feed ok if it was on a vertical lazy kate like they use for spinning.

@amandag5072 5 ай бұрын

A really helpful video. Thank you.

@lothrop53 5 ай бұрын

The nylon thread/ yarn I used to make dog leashes

@jolynnhanke8575 5 ай бұрын

Fun and practical video. Thank you!

@megsystylish2302 5 ай бұрын

Made baby blankets with Mandala Baby double stranded on my bulky machine. Made a nice fabric. Went through four skeins, blanket would’ve been a nicer size with six. Made myself a lap blanket out of the Puzzle yarn in Backgammon color way on my bulky. Great colors, nicely randomized. Curls like crazy, not a surprise.

@msullivan3531 2 ай бұрын

Crochet thread is really for doilies and other decor like that. Maybe a tote bag with the red. Size 3 would be for clothing.

@hobbyhopper3143 2 ай бұрын

Great video! Did you wash these swatches just according to the ball band?

@lauraberkholtz7959 5 ай бұрын

I usually use my LK150 to knit the stockinette parts of otherwise hand knit sweaters, so I mostly use local yarn store yarns. I find that fingering to DK works best on the machine, sometimes a very light worsted. I haven't had issues with most cottons, you just need extra weights on the edges especially. But then again I use sweater cottons, not dishcloth-type cotton.

@ravensnow2931 2 ай бұрын

What have been some of the sweater-quality cottons you've liked best?

@lauraberkholtz7959 2 ай бұрын

@@ravensnow2931 I really like Malabrigo Caprino and Cascade Ultra Pima.

@ravensnow2931 2 ай бұрын

@@lauraberkholtz7959 thank you!

@ianhasnochannel 5 ай бұрын

When rewinding balls, I have had good success using my lazy kate with the yarn spike to keep them from rolling all over. It would probably help with that crochet thread on a tube too. I have the lazy kate from Dreaming Robots. Cheap, and doesn't take up much space when disassembled.

@CholTaaim 5 ай бұрын

I would watch an entire video of you just running the carriage back and forth. Would you consider doing an ASMR style video of just that?

@KnitFactoryImpl 5 ай бұрын

Check out my garter carriage video kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpuwhpmamJqApsU

@ClaudiaArnold 5 ай бұрын

You will have seen it during the edit, but the red nylon spool toppled over when loops fell beneath it and then tightened around the core of the spool. A plastic net, as comes with any serger, can be pulled over the spool and will prevent loops falling down. With the cotton crochet yarn, I cannot imagine the problem being the tension of the yarn itself because this takes effect rather on circular knits. Even in hand knitting, and certainly on factory-made jersey which is made on a circular knitting machine as a tubular knit. So t-shirts tend to twist up in the wash. But with the to-and-fro movement of the carriage one would expect the effect to compensate itself. I used yarn such as this years ago and it was a horror to knit, but the swatches did not parallelogram on me. I hadn't rewound the ball, though. Maybe it wasn't relaxed on the cake any more.

@rainieraine1192 5 ай бұрын

Great video, I have seen a store crochet style beach cover up but it’s definitely been knit by machine, I wonder if it’s possible to emulate ‘crochet’ on a home knitting machine….

@megsystylish2302 5 ай бұрын

Hated the Coboo. The splittiest yarn I’ve ever used. Tried knitting it on my SK860, tried to do hand transferred lace - impossible.

@JaneConnorEmbellisher 5 ай бұрын

Do you have tension recommendations for each yarn tested?

@2minimom 5 ай бұрын

I feel like the nylon thread would make a good ravel cord?

@KnitFactoryImpl 5 ай бұрын

Maybe in a lighter weight, this is way too thick for ravel cord.

@maaikevermoen1727 26 күн бұрын

What is the reason for the yarn rules? The reasoning behind the rules?

@celticgoddess81 5 ай бұрын

Um, I don't see the link to the jumbo yarn winder am I missing it?

@kedsforkids668 5 ай бұрын

👍👍

@MzrtMusic 5 ай бұрын

This is amazing! Since you have all of the yarns, do you have plans to try this on one of the brother machines, like the 930/40?

@KnitFactoryImpl 5 ай бұрын

Only one or two of these yarns will work on a standard gauge machine but I might see what else I can find.

@MzrtMusic 5 ай бұрын

@@KnitFactoryImpl Yeah, that's what I was suspecting from watching. It's so hard to find yarns for the standard gauge machines without ordering it online.