I have taken on a whole pile of knitting machine ‘stuff’, two knitting machines and a bunch of tools and equipment to go with them. I’ve listed some on Kijiji which anyone can pick up to augment what they already have for their Singer/Silver Reed machines and also for the Brother, but I also have…
I have been a machine knitter for 36 years, my Mum worked on a knitting machine back in the ’60’s in England…they were invented in 1589…but it’s either not known about (‘knitting machine???’ blank look…crickets) or thought of as cheating because I’m not using two conventional needles..I’m using 100. I have knit on knitting needles…
Well, I just got back from a weekend hanging with the ladies in the Fingerlakes. I learned a long time ago that in the US machine knitters tend to used Brother knitting machines. As a long-time Singer knitter, I finally got a Brother 940 and also have two Garter Carriages to use on it. I…
We’re well into 2019 and a new show season but we artisans and craftspeople are reviewing our 2018 shows. It’ll be tax time soon so we have to crunch and record the numbers, decide which shows to continue with and apply or reapply, and which shows to move on from. On the other side of…
Bar to be repaired…new strip. I recently hosted a private one on one workshop in my studio with a newbie knitter student who wanted to learn to make dishcloths for her business…quicker than hand knitting. First, we started out with an LK150 which I didn’t like for the heavy cotton she needed to use so we…
As my recent flight from San Diego to San Francisco was cancelled due to the awful weather I went with my lovely hostess, Nancy, to her group of women as a school who came to class to learn machine knitting. It was a hoot! What a great bunch of ladies…some of whom I had been…
My recent trip to San Francisco and stay with Nancy Robertshttp://www.machineknittingtodyefor.com/ netted me a lesson in painting knitted pieces and then two pieces for me to knit up into socks. I love the idea of knitting up pieces and dyeing as opposed to dyeing skeins…more controlled and creative I think. Here, Nancy is checking my…
Nancy Davis & me in San Diego I recently was invited to travel to California by two wonderful Machine Knitting Guilds (San Diego & San Francisco) and it was Nancy Roberts of the San Francisco guild and of machineknittingtodyefor.com who got this ball rolling. My last port of call was San Francisco and a few…
Well, mild but blustery, I made it over to Karen’s yesterday and we spent nearly three hours together. We had planned to meet at another member’s house out in the country but the snow and wind were so bad no one dared take a car out on that road…so we decided on meeting in town…
Though I’m nowhere near a knitting machine, wool or anywhere that needs wool at the moment my mind is still working on design. Christmas lights still ’round the studio door! Wandering around the island of St Martin/St Maarten in the Caribbean I’m bombarded by colour and it’s wonderful…especially during a Winter of white on white…