Diana natters on... about machine knitting

Our son Steven is an Eagle Scout, and he's still involved with the Venture Crew. The kids do a fundraiser for Valentine's Day, a din...

Photos from Knit Club - first, Tiffany, Barbara's grandaughter, holding the handknit hedgehog that Pat Tittizer made. It's felted so...

Last night, I tried out some stretchy yarn I bought from Webs and found that the 72-needle cylinder just won’t take it. This stuff is too th...

I’ve been sitting in the den in the evenings sewing up everything in the basket. It’s mostly socks from my various experiments, but if I ta...

I made some baby blankets for the local hospital. Although I was promised some emailed specifications for baby blankets from them, that didn...

My accomplishment of the weekend was cleaning up the den where I knit socks. A big part of this was going through all the odds and ends of y...

I tried the short butt ribber needles in my Legare (they’re actually shorter overall, therefore, don’t pop out as far and pull back closer t...

Last night I spent some time winding my new sock yarn so I can start knitting it. I have found that the circular sock machines work much be...

Knit Natters Saturday was wonderful. Barbara, Pat, Mary, Rose, Sylvia, and Mildred were there. Everybody liked the lace scarf, and I think...

I am active in the Austin, Texas machine knitting guild The Knit Natters, http://knitnatters.com . A few of us take care of the program, a...

I am still tweaking the Legare to make it rib better on the 72 cylinder. I played a little with the Stretch from Regia. It behaves a little ...

I still want to use only small hook cylinder needles with the 72/36 combination on the Legare. I had found that the yarn comes out a little ...

I started making socks with the 72/36 combination on the Legare and have made my best socks ever. They have ribbing across the top of the fo...

For months now, I’ve had some baby alpaca, hand-dyed, fingering weight, given to me by Mary Page. Mary lives in San Angelo now but drives to...

I would have loved to buy a brand-new, expensive New Zealand Auto Knitter for myself for Christmas. I saw that Kiwi had a beauty for sale on...

We are becoming empty nesters, but we have a terribly messy, cluttered, crowded nest! Just before Christmas seemed like a very good time to ...