Brother/Knitking Knitting Machines

If possible, you should purchase your knitting machine from a local or nearby dealer to afford yourself the help and knowledge available at a dealer location. But if there is no dealer nearby, we will gladly provide you with a machine, accessories and limited assistance.

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT

Brother KH-970

These are the same machine, except for the name and color. All parts of like machines are interchangeable.

BROTHER MACHINE MANUFACTURE HISTORY

FORMER KNITKING YARNS

The Japanese-made Brother and Knitking knitting machines may be purchased as punch card machines or as electronic machines. These machines may be purchased as standard-gauge machines, with 200 needles 4.5 mm apart, or as bulky machines, with 114 needles 9 mm apart. The farther apart the needles, the thicker the yarn which can be used. The closer the needles, the thinner/finer the yarn which can be used. Standard-gauge machines may accommodate thicker yarns by knitting on every other needle or every third needle. However, as the available number of needles becomes less, the width of the actual knitted piece becomes narrower.

A punchcard machine can produce a pattern which is 24 stitches wide. However, that pattern can be repeated across the width of the knitted piece or positioned in a specific location, which is then called a motif. The pattern MUST be either 24 stitches or a number evenly divided into 24.

An electronic machine can produce a pattern from one stitch to as many stitches wide as there are needles on the machine: 200 stitches wide for a standard-gauge machine or 114 stitches wide for a bulky-gauge machine.

Brother/Knitking knitting machines may produce a wide variety of stitch patterns with little to no effort. You may knit a fairisle pattern; a single or multi-color tuck stitch pattern; a single or multi-color slip/skip stitch pattern; a drop lace, thread lace, normal lace or fine lace pattern. You may knit weave on the machine. You may make reversible plated patterns. Using an optional ribber attachment, you can do jacquard knitting, which is fairisle knitting with no floats.

Using your IBM-compatible personal computer, you may scan in patterns to a program, manipulate the pattern in any way you choose, download the pattern and/or the shape, and knit it. Using drawing tablets, you may draw your own pattern into the computer or even have a child draw his/her own original creation which you can then knit.

Only the Brother/Knitking machines have a Garter Carriage available. This is an optional accessory which allows you to knit and purl in the same row on a single bed machine unattended. It is an automatic knitting carriage using only one color of yarn at a time. This accessory knits only on the standard-bed machine. There is no like part for the bulky-gauge machine or for any other brand of knitting machine.

Additional optional accessories are available, such as a ribber, a four-color changer, a garter bar, a linker, a transfer carriage, and a KnitLeader. Each has its own function to either assist in the initial knitting or in the finishing process.

If you would like to place an order for yarn, please do not send an e-mail. At present, the security is not available. Please write your order and mail it, along with your check or credit card number. Or you may call and place an order at (800) 520-YARN.