Diana natters on... about machine knitting

Yea, another trip to California! I'm packing our bags for another seminar, this time in the Bay Area.  John is going with me and has s...

Whew!  My new book is finally available to purchase at www.dianaknits.com .  The DVDs arrived from the duplicator the other day, and I can f...

Wow, it's finally finished!  This was a LOT of short-rowed shells to knit.  I've been knitting on it a little almost every day for...

This yarn jumped into my shopping cart at Michael's: I usually shy away from Chenille.  Although it is incredibly soft and pretty, it ...

I had a YouTube video showing a quick, easy way to make the seashell stitch.  Lately, though, I've made several projects with it and com...

Here's a video I made in response to a request, demonstrating the double bed color changer:

When I was teaching at Cindy Schmatz' Princeton, Minnesota seminar last week, she had her shop open after each day.  I bought a few mach...

Six of us carpooled to Dallas last weekend to attend the DFW Machine Knitters Guild's annual October seminar.  Linda Jensen (My Blue Hea...

I have put a new shopping website up, and if anyone is willing to take a look and give me feedback, I'd be grateful! Right now I am wa...

Here's another one in the upcoming shawl book.  I called it the Peacock, because I was going that that tail shape. This one was hand-t...

I've been working on a shawl book...forever.  I have a great time coming up with the ideas and the shawls, and then getting the rest of ...

I had a reader having trouble with doing Enchanted Edgings on a Brother punch card machine, so I borrowed a Brother 890 and filmed how to d...

I'd been cranking some socks lately on my 100-year-old Legare 47.  I've been making "Diana's Favorite Sock," which I t...

I do love to get YouTube comments.  Most of them are encouraging, and many of them show me areas I ought to be covering or doing better. T...

I've been quiet here lately, with quite a lot going on. I retired at the end of the year, went back to work temporarily in March, took...

Does your LK150 need a new sponge bar?  This one's easy!

     I know, on this site I usually write about general machine knitting, but circular sock machines count, don't they? And CSMs are a p...

Ah, what a year I've had, so far! I'm a CPA in Texas, and for the past 13 years, I worked at an AWESOME nonprofit organization tha...

A friend, Leslie, is knitting my "Squared Away Simplified Entrelac Afghan Without Triangles," and she's put some information...

Check out these great-looking stitch patterns that are a combination of a needle out of work and cabling techniques: https://myblueheavenk...