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Wanted: Extinct Knitter’s Tool!!!
Do you have one of these and desparately need to get rid of it, can’t stand it cluttering up your space? Well, you’ve found a buyer. Pictured here is a 47 prong Transfer Tool used on most Standard Bed knitting machines. I use mine every day as I make vertical darts in my handloomed knits….
Weekend Machine Knitting Workshop
OK, too long since I posted, not that I haven’t had anything happen, just, perhaps, too much happening that kept me away from this segment of cyber space! I had a weekend workshop in my studio and though I only had two who could make it on that particular weekend, and I like to have…
Goodbye Mum
Margaret Gladys Barnett (nee Milburn) 1919 – 2010 This past month has been difficult with my 90 year old Mum was admitted int Kingston General Hospital following another stroke… only this time not just a TIA. It was touch and go for a while then she was asking to go home, chatting and laughing and…
Spring!!!
Yipeeeee! What a wonderful Spring Sunday yesterday, my other half and I spent the day working in the studio (me, getting ready for the Spring shows), wiring up the house for our new broadband and reaching out an upstairs window to try to shift the sheet of snow and ice on the studio roof before…
Steph’s Amazing Needles
Just so cool… my neighbour’s sister in England has been doing some fibre art/knitting/college project thingy in ‘Here Gallery‘ called, I think, ‘Twisted: Knitting on the Edge’ in Bristol that I just find neat to look at. I got sent some pictures of her giant needles and of Steph working that I just had to…
Yard Sale Find for the Studio.
Well, a very nice lady in town is moving to Hawaii and apparently won’t be doing any pressing when she gets there. I picked up this wonderful little ‘tool’ which I now cannot imagine being without!! It’s a mesh sheet which you use as a pressing cloth. Now, all my old pressing cloths were in…