Just after I finished editing and putting out my latest tutorial video I wondered where my first video was. I used to carry it around in my laptop bag and play it at shows, it’s 13 minutes of an overview of making a sweater in my studio on my knitting machine.
Well, I found it and managed to get it uploaded to YouTube. It’s not a tutorial but educational, I remember speaking with a woman at the Chicago One of a Kind show where she thought (and she was not alone) that got the fabric from somewhere and created a sweater by cutting and assembling….. I put her straight by showing her the first few minutes of this video and she said she would never assume again!
Also, sometimes I just don’t have the time to take photos and that was the case recently on my second trip to Chicago to conduct a workshop in making one of my jackets. What fun I had and what a lot of work…which I love, my only regret, but couldn’t be helped, was that we couldn’t add an hour or two to the days the Interknit group of Chicago. I’d love to have gone longer to get the ladies further along in their projects.
InterKnit Machine Knitting Guild of Chicago
However, I saw wonderful knitting happening, from some who really knew what they were doing to those who valiantly struggled along with this new (to them) craft….I praise them all!
Mary and me at the end of Navy Pier on a hot Fall day.
Mary picked me up at the airport and we spent the afternoon on Navy Pier, which I had only seen lit up an night before. We went on the Ferris wheel and looked at a wonderful display of stained glass.
Can this be knit?
Speaking of stained glass and women’s work, an excellent read is ‘Clara and Mr Tiffany‘ written by Susan Vreeland from letters written by Clara Wolcott Driscoll, a key woman behind Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glass work.
The workroom we used for the Chicago jacket workshop.
Working hard.
Giving a little help.
Thanks Valoria for the photos of the workshop.
Well, speaking of woman’s work, I’m off to my knitting machines!
Garter Carriage Hem Edge More working on the garter carriage, this us the hem edge of a new jacket. I haven’t uploaded it to my web site yet as I haven’t made the buttons….maybe in a day or so so I can photograph the jackets I’ve made when the sun is shining. The jackets I…
After a weekend away doing the Craft Ontario Craft show in Toronto, it’s good to be back in the studio….though even that seemed to be full of people for a while (but nice). The Machine Knitting Club of Kingston met in my studio for the first time on Tuesday (we meet the second Tuesday of…
Happy New Year everyone. We had a white Christmas and lots of snow shovelling, good exercise and lovely weather to be out and see neighbours after the holidays…..also time to keep knitting and create warm things to bolster us in the Canadian Winter. Here’s a shot out of my dining room window of our street…
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…
Paddye Mann’s Studio Garden This quite, peaceful bench is situated behind the studio and shop of Paddye Mann in Pakenham Ontario. Three women took a textile fuelled road trip. My fibre, costume, textile friend, Heather; knitting designer extraordinaire Elizabeth McCarten of Chez Lizzie blog, and I piled into my car and headed North. (Also check…
I accompanied my friend Anne Woodall of Knit Traders wool shop to Toronto yesterday for a Pro Knitters meeting (great by the way…I’ll post about that later) and while she lunched with her offspring I did my fave thing …. wander around downtown TO. I went for dyes and silk and also to pick a…
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Thank you! I've been machine knitting since 1983 and learned some new techniques today!
Thank you! I've been machine knitting since 1983 and learned some new techniques today!