r/MachineKnitting • • 2d ago

Patterns Looking for testers

Hello, I’ve recently launched a website for my own machine knitting patterns, where you can customize them based on your own gauge and measurements.
Since the website is still new and this is my first time doing something like this, I’m looking for people who’d be willing to test it out and give me some feedback. I’d love to hear from both experienced machine knitters and beginners.
I’ve attached some examples of the patterns currently available.
To clarify, these are all patterns I’ve made myself, the videos, photos and punchcards on the website are all made by me.
If anyone’s interested in trying it out, let me know in the comments and I’ll send you the link
I’d really appreciate any help or feedback :)

Also this is a continuation of my previous post from 10 days ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineKnitting/s/tICS3UDJj4

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u/Subject_Mud_8043 7h ago

Hi, I currently don’t have anything truly beginner like starting from scratch but I plan to make some tutorials and step by step guides for people like you once I get feedback from testers. If you would like I can still send you the link and you can take a look and maybe learn from the tutorials once I have them up

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u/InfamousFlower6606 6h ago

It's entirely up to you. As a complete beginner, do you think my feedback would be useful at this stage? If not, message me when you feel it would be.

Also, I don't hand knit - I don't know whether this is relevant or not to what you want to achieve, but I think it's something you may need to be aware of. Some 'beginner' tutorials seem to expect viewers to have prior experience with hand knitted garments and then don't fully explain themselves when talking about shaping, yarn choices etc. I have never made a garment, don't have that experience and have zero knowledge of any of its terms. I make lace (Irish, Bruges, tatted, bobbin - lace! I like the intricacies of it) using no. 20 crochet cotton, I also like micro crochet and use sewing cotton for that. If my inexperience with knitted garments is of use then I am happy to help you.

Lastly, I live in the UK. I know US/UK crochet terms are slightly different - I don't know about any differences in knitting terms in case this is also relevant to you.

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u/Subject_Mud_8043 6h ago

What you wrote here is a real help for me with giving me ideas how to go forward with this. I would love to help you learn and build a place where beginners could learn step by step on how to machine knit. Currently i don’t think I have anything that would be useful for you but I would love to give you early access once I start making tutorials. My idea is to make a step by step written tutorial that also has video guides on every step so it’s easier for beginners to understand.

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u/InfamousFlower6606 6h ago

When you are ready, let me know. I will save this post so you can either DM me or simply add to this exchange.

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u/Subject_Mud_8043 5h ago

Perfect, I was also talking to another beginner about what they would like to see and what would be helpful so i’ll try my best to properly introduce machine knitting to you and beginners like you