Machine knitting buttonhole bands excite me! Although I have to admit that at one time, I was challenged like most machine knitters. Now, they simply are FUN!
Vertical, horizontal, tailored buttonholes! Yikes! How do you form a buttonhole? How do you finish machine knit buttonholes? So many questions, so many options, so many choices and so many decisions!
Just this week, I released two videos on my newly minted YouTube channel Twisted Yarns. And yes, the topics are knitting machine buttonhole bands! I originally presented these two videos at the June 2020 Zoom meeting of InterKnit Machine Knitting Guild, my local knitting machine club in Chicago. Like many other groups, InterKnit temporarily moved its meetings online during the pandemic where videos thrive! I received many requests and promised to post them on YouTube as a reference. So here they are!
In the video, How to Knit a Sweater Band with Horizontal Buttonholes you will learn a series of three specific techniques needed to complete the buttonhole band. First, you learn how to set-up a facing on your knitting machine so that it knits at the same time as your front including buttonholes! Second, you learn two ways to finish the tailored buttonholes both on and off the machine. Third, you learn to how to finish the facing. As a bonus, I demonstrate three optional crochet edgings which reinforce and decorate the edge of the facing.
Even hand knitters will find the facing and crochet finishing techniques useful!
In the second video, How to Knit a Sweater Band with Vertical Buttonholes, you will learn how to knit a delightful buttonhole band in stockinette stitch. It is sharp and neat and so easy that when it comes off the knitting machine it is completely finished!
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