When things go wrong

Then there are those days…. sometimes during development, we knit all day long without a single correct finished product. We have been expanding our skills to include beanies, and there are a lot of technical operations in those knit programs, as it is shaping the structure into a hat.

Well, as we experiment with stitch length to get just the right fit and look, we ended up going a little to tight with the stitches. When the program finished knitting, the fabric got wound around the top rollers, which is pretty inaccessible. We ended up having to take off the needle bed to remedy the situation and clear the fabric. This machine has so many sensors in order to operate correctly and one must take great caution to assemble everything exactly as intended, or the program will not run correctly. Well, one more lesson learned, one more experience wiser utilizing these complex machines. This is a good example to illustrate the time and effort that goes into developing products.