Our featured post from Crafters Dictionary is the Garter Bar.
This is a knitting machine accessory made up of metal bent to form loops or prongs on a metal base bar and used for manipulating stitches, turning stitches or taking the knitwear off the needle bed or the knitting machine.
A garter bar is a transfer tool with lots of transfer prongs on a metal bar.
The garter bar comes with a stopper, which is adjustable and prevents the needles on the knitting machine from moving when you are doing a stitch manipulation using the garter bar and needle stopper.
Most knitting machines have a garter bar for them (the picture shows a garter bar for the standard gauge knitting machine). You buy it separately because it is an add-on accessory.
Uses of Garter bar
Garter bar is a versatile tool in machine knitting because it helps when,
- turning your knitting (purl side to knit side),
- Holding stitches,
- creating gather/ ruffle design on a gown, skirt, sleeve of shirts, etc. ( You can watch 0-3 months gather gown on the SK280 on ANINO TV( Youtube),
- dart in needed to shape a knitwear(use in dart making on a knitwear),
- moving stitches,
- Removing stitches from the knitting machine,
- Forming cables,
- increasing stitches,
- decreasing stitches,
- Hand-tooling lace design,
- making garter stitches on a knitting machine,
- and much more.
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