In this article, I’m sharing the secret to mastering panels on your circular knitting machine. The settings are pretty similar across machines, so whether you’re working with a Sentro, Addi King, Prym, Jamit, or the original Addi, this guide has you covered. Once you get the hang of it, making panels will feel super easy—and even a little addictive!
How to make panels on your circular knitting machine
The secret for perfect panels on your circular knitting machine is to control the tension of the yarn using your fingers instead of the tension piece of your Sentro knitting machine. Because you need to apply tension at the beginning of each row it’s hard to do that using the tension piece. You need to apply some pressure every time you start a row, otherwise, the edges of your panel will not be even and you will drop stitches for that reason.
Using your fingers to tension the yarn is a much better way to work panels, you won’t drop stitches and your edges will be perfect like in the image below. Also, you can use summer yarns like cotton and light acrylic yarns if you tension the yarn with your hands.
Light yarns are too thin for the tension piece that comes in your Sentro, the Addi machine doesn’t have a tension piece so you naturally have to do it by hand.
In the image, I’m using the Mandala Hombre yarn, which is a perfect yarn for summer projects and it runs like butter on both Addi and Sentro knitting machines.
I made a full course about Panels in depth that you can access here, it´s a 2 hrs course with a sweater pattern included as a final project!
In the video below I’m also using a summer yarn called Cotton Cakes which is a mix of cotton and acrylic yarn. I will be posting more tips on how to work the panel mode of your machines, so Subscribe here to my channel to get notifications of new videos and also help me grow my channels and make new patterns for you!
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