By Tricia Shafer now Tricia Edwards. I love to manipulate the stitches into interesting textures and shapes on my knitting machine. This is far more interesting to me than fairisle or intarsia designs. Something about getting my fingers next to the yarn, and digging in with my tools that is so satisfying. This book is a collection of twisted stitches to create trims to start any machine knit piece. Each trim starts at the cast on edge of the knit, but can easily be added to necklines, armholes, or other edges of knit. If you can use a 1, 2 and 3-prong tools, you can do the machine knit...

If you love the look of crochet edges, then you are going to enjoy making these easier than crochet edgings on your machine knits by Tricia Shafer now Tricia Edwards. The only required crochet skill is making a chain stitch. The chain stitch can be made with a crochet hook, latch tool or using a finger crochet method. So no matter your skill level, you can make these edgings on your knitting machine. Each edging starts as the cast on edge for the piece, so it comes off of the knitting machine without any additional crochet work. They can also be added to a hem where it joins the main piece of...

Ever wish you could convert a hand knit pattern to work on your knitting machine? Well it is possible if you have a little help. This book explains how to translate abbreviations, stitch symbols, terminology and techniques used in hand knit patterns to work on all knitting machines. Plus there are sample hand knit patterns translated to machine knit patterns. Images are included.