Which is better regular knitting or knitting machine?
If I want to knit a blanket, but only have a limited amount of time to do so, is a knitting machine worth the hassle?
Does the knitting machine allow someone to knit much faster than by hand, or is just a different type of knitting?
“get the mchine, but its for a different type of knitting”
Different type than the blanket? I’m pretty fast at hand knitting, but I’m doing a very lengthy project (buying wool, washing it, dyeing it, and spinning it) and I wanted to finish it before Christmas.
I do both, and I usually have multiple projects going on at any one time.
Learning to use a knitting machine requires an investment of time. The simplest machines, of course, require the least investment and provide the simplest results (primarily stockinette stitch, and you can hand-manipulate stitches to achieve patterns), but do it much faster than you can knit comparable yarn by hand. In other words, taking on the task of learning to use a knitting machine can be fun in itself, if you perceive it as a learning process with its own learning curve.
But to knit *A* blanket (when you don’t already machine knit)? The fastest way is to use size 50 knitting needles (1″ diameter; make long ones with 1″ dowels sanded smooth and waxed with floor wax) and multiple strands of heaavier yarn. You can whip out a crib-sized blanket in about the time you’d take to watch two to three movies on TV and an adult-sized afghan in less time than it would take to watch a season of The Sopranos.
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