Artisan KH260 & KR260 Punch Card Bulky Knitting machine

A bulky knitting machine quickly knits fabric that looks just like hand-knitting using sport weight, double knitting (D.K.) weight, and worsted weight yarn. (Please note that it does not knit anything heavier than worsted weight yarn.)

You can knit stockinette stitch and ribbed stitches with the included ribber. The tubular/circular knitting creates seamless pillows, purses, scarves, tubes, and socks. (Yes, knit a sock in only half an hour in plain knitting, or a bit longer in patterned knitting!)

However, this bulky knitting machine can also use a punch card to create knitting stitch patterns automatically. Place a punch card in the machine and activate it. Now you can automatically knit Thread Lace, Tuck, Slip, Weaving, Fair Isle and Single Motif Isolation stitches and more!

There is a basic bulky knitting machine pattern card set included. Also you can make your own with an optional extra puncher and blank cards.

Bulky punch cards for this machine are 24 stitch-wide pattern repeats. 24-stitch punch cards are available from other brands of knitting machines and are interchangeable with this machine. 24 stitches allows you to create patterns in factors of 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 stitches wide and repeat across the card.

The bulky gauge machine is a 9 mm needle pitch knitting machine with 110 needles. This means there are 9 mm between the needles which is wide enough to accept sport weight up to bulky weight yarn. Thus the name bulky.

Bulky Ribbing Attachment included: The bulky ribber is included and is also 9 mm pitch, with another 110 needles. For Rib Knitting and Double Bed Fair Isle patterns.Included is a D Slider used to make dropped-stitch designs. If you are not using the bulky ribbing attachment, it drops down out of the way or it can be detached and stored.

Optional knitting machine stand available.

We recommend liberally oiling inside and outside before using. This machine may come with bits of rust, dings, scratches or other blemishes that affect the appearance but do not affect the performance. Once you have it tuned for your needs, however, it should continue to serve you for many years.