Knitting Machine Museum​

The Orion 2 Motor As described in the literature, a hand knitting apparatus Model 2 This lovely machine was donated and the reason I was interested was that it came with a dedicated motor and built on table, this is very unusual with vintage machines of this ilk. It’s a good job my grandson was visiting as getting this machine upstairs to the first floor of my old Breton barn was no easy task, I have seen the day when this would not have been a problem but time marches on

Recent acquisitions The Orion was a particularly heavy beast and if my grandson Josh were not here, I would never have been able to take it upstairs to the first floor of my old barn. Again these vintage double beds are heavy but between us we managed to put it together and get it working. The wonderful thing is the literature and pattern books of the era that come with these old machines really interests me. Perhaps I should also mention that I have still to come to gri

Singer Freestyle Electronic Knitting Machine Singer Freestyle Electronic Knitting Machine Its been a while since I tested this machine, its a lightweight bed made of alumimium and I must say this machine impresses me, as especially here in France it can be bought for very little money. It is absolutely a brain teaser of a machine that offers so many options. Like all Singer Superba electronic machines it has an odd patterning system unlike the normal electronic machines we

Bond Elite The Bond Elite is one of the famous Bond stable of machines, great wee machines that should not cost too much money. Its a hobby machine and as such it knits a variety of yarns. The Bond Classic was purchased by me in my early days of machine knitting to accommodate my hand spun yarn and mohair. The Bond magazines of the day offered a great variety of patterns. This one came to me in good condition and only cost 40 pounds so not a bad buy for the money and an

Superba 9000 with Superbaknit Once I had paid the package arrived fairly quickly and the IBB Group in Europe company offered a discount of 100 euros – price of the package was now 290 euros, this was the reason I considered it. The original Superba 9000 Electronic Knitting |Machine is a fantastic machine but like the Brother 970 it was a huge hassle to set up. Strangely enough both these machines have inbuilt knitwear programmes so I wonder if that is what makes them so much

Singer 9000 and the Passap E6000 Adverts Both released around the same time, I bought the E6000 but it did not take me long to get my hands on the Singer 9000 - still the Passap is my favourite machine but when it comes to keeping me interested then the Singer does the job, so wish me luck! Easy or not for this computer fanatic - I love the idea of this patterning ystem however we must not forget that one aspect of this software is the loss of the inbuilt shapes feature. I a