How To Thread A Knitting Machine - Brother, Studio, Singer, Silver Reed
It’s time to thread your knitting machine.
Place the yarn behind the yarn tension unit.
Bring the thread from the outside of the ball up to the first eyelet about half way up the tension rod. Thread it through. Continue up to the top and place the yarn between the bar and the back of the numbered tension dial.
Slide the yarn along the bar, behind the numbered tension dial, and between the stainless steel tension plates. Continue forward and thread the yarn through the front eyelet.
With your free hand, bring down the tension wire that is on the same side you are threading. Run the yarn through this last eyelet of the yarn tension unit.
Still holding the yarn, pull it down to the sinker plate assembly (arm on a Studio/Singer machine). You will need to make sure the sinker plate gate is open. This picture shows it closed.
This picture shows it open.
Still holding the yarn so it won’t fly to the ceiling, place it into the assembly, pulling it all the way to the back position. A sinker plate will have two positions, usually A and B or 1 and 2. This is because you can knit with two colors at the same time. When knitting with one color, you need to place the yarn all the way to the back, in the 1 position.
Place a clip on the yarn so it cannot fly out of the machine. Congratulations! You have successfully completed threading your knitting machine. Next time, we’ll do a simple cast-on and knit a stockinette square.
Now my lovely assistant, take your gorgeous hand to the minivan and PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE!
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5 comments
Thank You, Thank You, Thank You. I bought a machine over 3 years ago and have never been able to figure out how to cast on or how to thread until I finally decided to research — and found your site.
This weekend I’m going to get it out and see if I can finally get it to work.
Great Job!!
You are very welcome. It took Google over a month before this post made it to the first few pages of its index. I’m so glad you found me.
I have a Swiftomatic Knitting machine made in switzerland. No accessories. Missing the yarn attachment that thing I think is for knit in single bed. but I can knit with double bed. But I don’t know how to hang the cast on comb and knit the second row. My comb is a comb and a wire. How to knit the second row? thanks.
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Most double bed knitting machines I’ve seen require the knitter to knit a zig zag row first. That is, as the carriage moves across the bed, the yarn is caught by alternating needles on the front and back beds.
When done with this row, you grab your cast on comb, pull out the thin wire to expose the teeth, then coming from underneath the machine, insert the comb such that the teeth stick up through the zig zag row.
As one hand holds the comb in position, your other hand reinserts the thin wire so that the comb will rest on the zig zag row. You then must add weights to the comb to add tension to the first row and help pull down each additional knit row. The metal bar of the comb has holes to hang the large weights with hooks.
thank you for such an informative site! hubby just bought me a singer and i had no idea how to use it (and wasnt really keen on working it out). you have just made it seem a whole lot easier!
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