Circular Knitting on a Singer Knitting Machine

There are loads of tutorials on YouTube that will show you how to knit circular on a Brother Knitting Machine, not so many for a Singer Knitting Machine. What is out there usually has the information needed buried half-way through an hour long video. Which is why I’m providing a brief explainer on how to set up your Singer Knitting Machine for circular knitting with the settings for both carriages.

The Instruction Manual

Here are the instructions as they appear in my manual. It’s all there but as new machine knitter I certainly didn’t understand it. So here is what you need to do.

Rack your machine

I am going to assume you’ve already cast on the necessary needles for your project.

For circular knitting you will need to rack your ribber bed so that the needles are directly opposite to each other. Or at least as close as you can get.

For me on my machine I use P5. Your machine may be different.

Set your Main Bed Carriage

On the main carriage, you will set your cam lever to slip. Your side lever on one side only will be set to the circle. In the photo above, the main bed will only knit when the carriage is moving from left to right.

Set your Ribber Carriage

On your Ribber carriage, you will change the set lever on the opposite side to zero. The set lever on the left means the carriage will only knit when it is moving towards the left.

Still not clear?

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