Friday, January 19, 2024
Friday, January 12, 2024
Introducing the new Cordy icord maker!
Introducing the "Cordy" icord maker! Lightweight, easy to use, no experience necessary!
Available now!
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Happy Halloween and happy knitting!
Check out my line of Machine Knitting accessories.
- Garter Bars & Needle stoppers - 6.5mm, 8mm, 9mm
- Needle Beetle needle selectors for the plastic mid-gauge machines
- Weave-R weaving accessory
- Transfer tools
- Ultimate Sweater machine cast-on combs and misc. parts
- Patterns and links to more free patterns
Sunday, September 12, 2021
Needle Beetles now for Brother machines too!
Last year I came out with the "Needle Beetle" needle selector for the Silver Reed (studio,singer) LK-150, LK-140, LK-100, Zippy 90, and GK-370. It was a hit! but I kept getting asked if it would work on the Brother plastic machines, KX and Convertibles. Unfortunately they have different widths (not length) to their needle beds and a couple other factors such as they don't have the round knobs on top of their needles like the LK's do. I weighed whether to take on another expensive project, but so many were asking I went ahead and did it.
I am happy to announce that we now have the Needle Beetle II for the Brother plastic machines, KX models and convertible models. *sorry thus far it will not work on the KH-341.
The Needle Beetle needle selector makes selecting needle arrangements go MUCH faster when working specialty stitches such as tuck, slip, weaving, lace, fairisle, etc.
Needle Beetle for LK machines.
Needle Beetle II for Brother KX & Convertible machines.
Both Needle Beetle and Needle Beetle II work exactly the same way, they both work on 8-stitch pattern repeats (16 for the Convertible 9mm option). You simply select the first 8 needles, push the Needle Beetle across the needle bed and the NB will select all the rest of the stitches exactly in the pattern you chose. There are now some great videos on Youtube by various knitters demo-ing the NB.
For information or ordering go to: www.kriskrafter.com
Wednesday, June 16, 2021
New Weaving attachment for LK-150 Knitting Machine!
Yay!!
New for the LK machines!
The Weave-R attachment will fit the following machines:
LK-150, LK-140, LK-100, Zippy 90, GK-370.
*No, I am sorry it will not fit other machines.
The
Weave-R attachment will speed up your knit-weaving projects. This
attachment is used in conjunction with your main carriage. You lay your
weaving yarn across needles that are selected and pushed out to "D"
position, then run the Weave-R across the needle bed. The weaving yarn
will then be woven (over & under) the needles, then, knit across
with your main carriage and you now have a nice contrast yarn woven in.
Watch my demo video here: https://youtu.be/bvvXUmyk_yM A much faster way to perform knit weaving than having to do hand manipulations. For more info/purchasing, go to www.kriskrafter.com
Friday, October 23, 2020
Needle Beetle - Tuck Stitch patterns with Charts
Hi Beetle users!
Come here to see different needle arrangements to make specialty stitches. These are the TUCK stitches. I have made these tuck stitches using the new Needle Beetle needle selector and my LK-150 knitting machine. If you don't have a Needle Beetle yet but would like to learn more about it go to: https://www.kriskrafter.com/product-page/needle-beetle-needle-selector
I will be adding to this all the time, so be sure to check back. I will make another page for Slip stitches once I start on those.
Tuck Stitch #1
Tuck Stitch #2
Tuck Stitch #3
Tuck Stitch #4
Tuck Stitch #5
Tuck Stitch #7
Tuck Stitch #11
Tuck Stitch #12
Tuck Stitch #13
Tuck stitch #14
Sunday, September 13, 2020
Needle Beetle needle selector - list and charts of 8-stitch needle arrangements.
Hi MKers,
For those of you who own one of my new Needle Beetle needle selectors. I have come up with a list of the various 8-stitch needle arrangements that can be used with the Needle Beetle.
Use/combine these arrangements to create your own designs. Some lend themselves better to Tuck, some to slip, lace, or fairisle. * I will be posting a collection of Stitch Patterns that I've come up with soon.
If I have missed some, please let me know and I will add it.
You can link to the PDF file here and download it:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BU-XRBXW0Ki7PCREIGpXvQwERBtT2VIm/view?usp=sharing
If you don't own a Needle Beetle needle selector but are interested in one. Take a look at my website:
www.kriskrafter.com for more information.
The Original Needle Beetle works on these machine: LK-150, LK-140, LK-100, GK-370
The newest Needle Beetle II works on Brother KX & Convertible models.
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