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!
Friday was the opening evening of the Winter Art Exhibition at the Thousand Islands Arts Centre (Home of the Handweaving Museum) in Clayton, NY. I have taught there and am a member so when the email came in December I decided to make an effort. First, I thought I’d make a jacket then thought better…
The front doors of Flemming College“Within These Walls The Walls Disappear” I’ve been back from my first whole week in Haliburton teaching Machine Knitting. Unfortunately I found that life goes on when you’re out in the country, driving through rain storms to the BBQ’s, hot tubbing and lake swimming. The work I left behind divided…
I know this sounds so silly but I have a new iron……. yeah, big whoop! Well, It’s special and I found it (well my husband found it) at a store that sells stuff remaindered from stores such as Sears. He knew my older TFal was giving me a hard time not steaming when I needed…
Long time no blog, it’s been a busy Spring so far and now that I’ve been on vacation for jus a little over a week I can pull myself together and post anew.On one of my Spring power walks that I managed to squeeze in between the One of a Kind and Originals shows I…
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…
I love to teach! I love to impart what I have learned over the past 31 years to other potential machine knitters, polymer clayers, felters. I love to travel….anywhere, I don’t do it enough to be bored or fed up with it, exploring the world has been instilled in my by my Dad (who at…
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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!