Kris makes very nice new-manufacture mid-gauge and bulky garter bars, and some of the MK-70 owners have inquired about 6 mm garter bars. MK-70s and LK160s, I think, are 6 mm instead of 6.5 mm. I have an MK-70, and it's a cool little machine. It folds up into a case about the size of a sewing machine.
For it to be worthwhile, Kris needs to manufacture and sell about 100 of these; therefore, she'd like to know how many people want one.
If you are looking for a 6 mm, please let Kris know at www.kriskrafter.com. I'm on the list!
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Asking Me Questions
If you have a question for me, please email me. I read internet comments, but they aren't designed to allow replies except as a comment in the list below the old post, which I wouldn't expect you to revisit.
Anyway, two answers to questions:
1. How do you do a ribber gauge swatch? My method is to do it just as big as a regular swatch. I use needle numbers for my 40 stitches and 60 rows.
It's going to be very stretchy, and you'll have to handle it the same way you plan to handle the garment. As a very general rule, I do very little blocking on ribbed stitches, so I usually measure the swatch without any stretching or blocking and avoid the ribbed areas when I steam or block the garment.
2. What is the status on the edgings book?
I thought I might finish last night! The book is finished. The instructional video effort for the DVD is stuck, my editing software giving me extraordinary problems and refusing to process the last few video clips.
I will probably purchase a fourth editing software and try again, which makes it difficult to predict the moment when I will be ready to have printing and duplicating done.
Anyway, two answers to questions:
1. How do you do a ribber gauge swatch? My method is to do it just as big as a regular swatch. I use needle numbers for my 40 stitches and 60 rows.
It's going to be very stretchy, and you'll have to handle it the same way you plan to handle the garment. As a very general rule, I do very little blocking on ribbed stitches, so I usually measure the swatch without any stretching or blocking and avoid the ribbed areas when I steam or block the garment.
2. What is the status on the edgings book?
I thought I might finish last night! The book is finished. The instructional video effort for the DVD is stuck, my editing software giving me extraordinary problems and refusing to process the last few video clips.
I will probably purchase a fourth editing software and try again, which makes it difficult to predict the moment when I will be ready to have printing and duplicating done.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Renate Miller on Handwork
Something to think about. I think most of us love the process, not only the product.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Art Machines: Топик цвета лайма
Art Machines: Топик цвета лайма
Check out the green lace shell. Cute, huh? Sounds like she did a lot of hand-transfers to do this, but it can be done using the patterning device on your machine.
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Take The Garter Bar Quiz
With the garter bar lessons available on DVD, try the garter bar quiz:
See how many of the garter bar skills (which are in the new DVD garter bar course) that you already know:
1. Can you adjust the stopper, and do you understand how to use it?
2. Have you used your garter bar as a stitch holder?
3. Have you used your garter bar to decrease evenly across a row (for a hat or a cicular yoke, perhaps)? Do you know how to do the math quickly, to spread the decreases evenly?
4. Have you learned to increase evenly across a row using the garter bar (for a cuff, perhaps)?
5. Have you learned to gather a ruffle with your garter bar?
6. Can you rip out a whole row in a single tug, using only the stopper?
7. Can you put all the stitches back in the needle hooks using the garter bar?
8. Can you make a vertical dart, using the garter bar?
9. Have you turned cables with your garter bar?
10. Have you learned to use your machine's patterning device to select needles, then turn cables with the garter bar?
11. Have you done all-over eyelet lace with the garter bar?
12. How about using the patterning device and the garter bar to make lace using a machine with no lace carriage?
13. Have you used your garter bar to park half the stitches while you shape the other side of a neckline?
14. Have you tried vertical weaving with the garter bar?
15. Have you ever moved stitches from the ribber to the main bed, all at once in groups as wide as the garter bar?
16. Have you knitted a fancy woven cable with the garter bar?
17. Can you make garter stitch with a garter bar?
18. Have you ever tried Quaker stitch, using a garter bar?
19. Have you ever shaped a V neckband, using the garter bar?
Trico a Maquina Does it Again - Beautiful Stitch Pattern
Check out Trico a Maquina's Beautiful stitch pattern!
You can use a translating website to translate Irma's Portugese instructions, but you will find the translator does very weird things to knitting terminology. Here are my instructions, translated from the Google translation to actual instructions one can follow (for instance, careers = rows; points = stitches, etc.).
This is a machine knitting stitch. Begin with a number of needles divisible by 5. Cast on and knit a few rows. Carriage on right.
The pattern is worked over groups of 5 needles. Begin by putting all needles into hold position and set the carriage so it does not knit needles in hold.
Put the first 5 needles on the carriage side into working position so they will knit. Knit 4 rows. Put the next 5 needles into working position, knit 4 rows.
*Put the next 5 needles into working position and knit 1 row from right to left. Put the first group
of 5 back into hold position. Knit 3 more rows. Repeat from * on across the work, adding a group and taking a group out of work as you go.
Keep working in this manner until only one group of needles is in work. The last group will have an extra row so the carriage can end on the left side.
Now, working from left to right: Knit 4 rows over the first group of 5; put next 5 in work, knit 4 rows; put next 5 in work, knit 1 row1 and put the first group back into hold. Knit 3 rows, *put next 5 stitches in work, knit 1 row. Put the next group on the left into hold and knit 3 more rows. Repeat from * across the working, adding a group and taking a group out of work as you go.
There's a direction at the end of the pattern that is a complete mystery to me, but hey, the pictures match my stitch pretty well so I'm on the right track.
I started my scarf with waste yarn, then an e-wrap cast-on and 4 rows of plain knitting, and ended with 4 rows of plain knitting and a loop-through-a-loop cast-off. The scarf requires a bazillion rows. Honestly, I lost track; the row counter turned over several times. You knit until it's long enough, and I'm so glad I have a motor. I listened to an audio book (lame romance genre, lots of sword fights; all men hunky, and all women beautiful) and I watched the machine closely. A couple times, a slub caught on a gate peg, and I had to rip out a few stitches. I should have used smoother yarn, but isn't this pretty?
For my scarf using Irma's lovely stitch, rather than doing all that "hold" work manually, I created an electronic stitch pattern using PART buttons to do the short-rows. You must bring the carriage outside all the needles every row if you do the automatic stitch.
I used this yarn before, and I only had a cone end then, for a ribber scarf. That scarf was pretty and chunky, but this scarf is blocked firmly and quite slinky. I still have enough on this cone end for yet another scarf or small project, so you'll see it yet again! Nope, I have no idea what this yarn is, since I got it from another knitter.
A commenter on Irma's site said she was making a blanket, but gee, I don't know. It would be a cute baby blanket, but I generally avoid stitches with holes big enough for little fingers. Any suggestions as to what else would be cute in this stitch? You can modify the edges to make them straight instead of wavy, and I know seams will work okay on this stitch. I do think it would make a nice stole, but remember, that will also require a bazillion rows.
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You can use a translating website to translate Irma's Portugese instructions, but you will find the translator does very weird things to knitting terminology. Here are my instructions, translated from the Google translation to actual instructions one can follow (for instance, careers = rows; points = stitches, etc.).
This is a machine knitting stitch. Begin with a number of needles divisible by 5. Cast on and knit a few rows. Carriage on right.
The pattern is worked over groups of 5 needles. Begin by putting all needles into hold position and set the carriage so it does not knit needles in hold.
Put the first 5 needles on the carriage side into working position so they will knit. Knit 4 rows. Put the next 5 needles into working position, knit 4 rows.
*Put the next 5 needles into working position and knit 1 row from right to left. Put the first group
of 5 back into hold position. Knit 3 more rows. Repeat from * on across the work, adding a group and taking a group out of work as you go.
Keep working in this manner until only one group of needles is in work. The last group will have an extra row so the carriage can end on the left side.
Now, working from left to right: Knit 4 rows over the first group of 5; put next 5 in work, knit 4 rows; put next 5 in work, knit 1 row1 and put the first group back into hold. Knit 3 rows, *put next 5 stitches in work, knit 1 row. Put the next group on the left into hold and knit 3 more rows. Repeat from * across the working, adding a group and taking a group out of work as you go.
There's a direction at the end of the pattern that is a complete mystery to me, but hey, the pictures match my stitch pretty well so I'm on the right track. I started my scarf with waste yarn, then an e-wrap cast-on and 4 rows of plain knitting, and ended with 4 rows of plain knitting and a loop-through-a-loop cast-off. The scarf requires a bazillion rows. Honestly, I lost track; the row counter turned over several times. You knit until it's long enough, and I'm so glad I have a motor. I listened to an audio book (lame romance genre, lots of sword fights; all men hunky, and all women beautiful) and I watched the machine closely. A couple times, a slub caught on a gate peg, and I had to rip out a few stitches. I should have used smoother yarn, but isn't this pretty?
For my scarf using Irma's lovely stitch, rather than doing all that "hold" work manually, I created an electronic stitch pattern using PART buttons to do the short-rows. You must bring the carriage outside all the needles every row if you do the automatic stitch.
I used this yarn before, and I only had a cone end then, for a ribber scarf. That scarf was pretty and chunky, but this scarf is blocked firmly and quite slinky. I still have enough on this cone end for yet another scarf or small project, so you'll see it yet again! Nope, I have no idea what this yarn is, since I got it from another knitter.
A commenter on Irma's site said she was making a blanket, but gee, I don't know. It would be a cute baby blanket, but I generally avoid stitches with holes big enough for little fingers. Any suggestions as to what else would be cute in this stitch? You can modify the edges to make them straight instead of wavy, and I know seams will work okay on this stitch. I do think it would make a nice stole, but remember, that will also require a bazillion rows.
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Saturday, July 10, 2010
Dog-Lover's Yarn: pretty in pink
Dog-Lover's Yarn: pretty in pink
Cute socks!
I think Cooper is adorable. I have loved looking at the pictures of his puppyhood.
More Dental Adventures
I had a sick tooth while on vacation, and now I've had to have it extracted. I was hoping and half expecting it to be fixable, but it needed to come out. I missed a day of work and got it done Thursday. Heck, the dentist I saw Wednesday would have gotten me into an oral surgeon that afternoon if an appointment had been available..
I had a bad moment. I thought about getting up and leaving the oral surgeon's office! First of all, I had been sent to the wrong address and had only gotten the right address by calling the answering service, since nobody was answering the office phone and nobody at the old address seemed to know where they had gone. Secondly, after I was in the chair, the assistant told me I wasn't going to have the doctor I was expecting. I didn't know either doctor, since it was a referral, but I did have a tired-of-surprises-let's-blow-this-place moment. Then I thought, "You wuss. People used to go to some guy with pliers at a barber shop. Here's a nice, gentle doctor with Novocaine, soft music, and pain pills for later."
The gentle, gray-haired doctor was very nice, explained everything, didn't hurt me, and got that mean old molar out in one piece, and fairly quickly.
I am on the mend. I know, it's all mental, but there are days when you are mentally strong and days when you're just tired. I went back to work Friday, and it seemed like everything I worked on was frustrating, but today I have Knit Natters, my lovely friends, and a very interesting demo to show off. Oh, I'm rubbing my hands! Wait 'till you see this photo...or maybe I'll make a video. Here's a hint: I got this idea from Trico a Maquina, the gorgeous knitting blog from Brazil that every machine knitter ought to follow.
I had a bad moment. I thought about getting up and leaving the oral surgeon's office! First of all, I had been sent to the wrong address and had only gotten the right address by calling the answering service, since nobody was answering the office phone and nobody at the old address seemed to know where they had gone. Secondly, after I was in the chair, the assistant told me I wasn't going to have the doctor I was expecting. I didn't know either doctor, since it was a referral, but I did have a tired-of-surprises-let's-blow-this-place moment. Then I thought, "You wuss. People used to go to some guy with pliers at a barber shop. Here's a nice, gentle doctor with Novocaine, soft music, and pain pills for later."
The gentle, gray-haired doctor was very nice, explained everything, didn't hurt me, and got that mean old molar out in one piece, and fairly quickly.
I am on the mend. I know, it's all mental, but there are days when you are mentally strong and days when you're just tired. I went back to work Friday, and it seemed like everything I worked on was frustrating, but today I have Knit Natters, my lovely friends, and a very interesting demo to show off. Oh, I'm rubbing my hands! Wait 'till you see this photo...or maybe I'll make a video. Here's a hint: I got this idea from Trico a Maquina, the gorgeous knitting blog from Brazil that every machine knitter ought to follow.
Matt Ridley: Down with Doom: How the World Keeps Defying the Predictions of Pessimists
This Huffington Post Article is wonderful:
He had me in the first paragraph, "When I was a student, in the 1970s, the world was coming to an end." I was a student in the 1970s, and at my college, I heard the same horrendous predictions.
Maybe the pessimists galvanized people to make the world better, but I don't think so. Progress comes from a few heroes, like Norman Borlaug, the father of the "green revolution," but mostly, from people doing what people do with the available capital, ambition, and technology. The point isn't that everything is wonderful, but that the fear-mongers keep generating crazy predictions for questionable motives, like selling books, magazines, movies, and political agendas. How's that ice age working out? How do we tell whether to be concerned or whether we are listening to Chicken Little?
I contend that a realistic recognition of the difference human progress has made in the quality of human life will motivate our kids to go forth and do something worthwhile more than yet another wave of doomsday predictions.
I remember what the pessimists were pushing in the 1970s. The question is, what are the pessimists pushing now?
Friday, July 9, 2010
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Thursday, July 8, 2010
Recognize The Real Signs of Drowning and Save a Life
The possibility of someone drowning - even with people nearby who can help - is a terrifying reality. Drownings and near-drowning are horrifyingly common.
Whenever I'm at a public pool, I wonder how on earth the lifeguards can tell whether children are in trouble, so I asked one of my son Steven's friends, who was lifeguarding, about how to recognize a swimmer in distress. He told me a little about his training and experience. Problems are common, and not just drowning, but he also saw dehydration and heat exhaustion cases. Teenage girls who are on the verge of fainting because they do not eat and drink account for plenty of problems in the sun and water.
Here's an interesting article:
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Knitting Brother Multiple Transfer Lace Patterns on a Studio KM!
Great video, and I considered it a must-watch, since I'm not a Studio (Silver Reed) knitter:
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Cooks.com - Recipe - Geo's Bbq Shrimp
We ate this at my MIL's house last weekend:
Laura (John's sister) and I had been hunting recipes, trying to replicate a flavor she remembers from New Orleans street vendors' shrimp. This version was tasty, unusual, easy to do, and cooks in only a few minutes in the broiler. We also liked this recipe's common, readily-available ingredients.
The sauce is spicy and sweet. Watch out - if you let it sit a while, the shrimp get spicier.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Inspiration The Shetland Trader: A Tiny Tea Leaves...
The Shetland Trader: A Tiny Tea Leaves...
As I've been shopping, I noticed a lot of "little" sweaters, intended to go over summer dresses. I didn't buy one, because all I could find in my size was black, and I don't have black summer dresses! I've been thinking about knitting one ever since.
Isn't this cute? Just love a round neckline with cables!
As I've been shopping, I noticed a lot of "little" sweaters, intended to go over summer dresses. I didn't buy one, because all I could find in my size was black, and I don't have black summer dresses! I've been thinking about knitting one ever since.
Isn't this cute? Just love a round neckline with cables!
Many Assorted Updates
We're back in Austin! We crawled into our bed at about 2 a.m. We had a flight that went from Ontario, California to Las Vegas, and to our surprise, the plane went from almost empty to completely filled (and a volunteer recruited for a later flight) even though it was the 4th of July! We saw a lot of fireworks as we landed in Austin, professional fireworks shows in many locations around the area, but from the air, even the most impressive show is amazingly miniaturized.
While we were in California, our son Steven packed and mailed all the orders so nobody would have to wait unduly. Our policy is to mail every weekday, if we have an order. Steve is a smart and careful young man, followed detailed instructions, and didn't want any of my customers disappointed. If anyone had the least problem with an order this week, please let me know.
I want you all to know that I have a new eBay ID. John and I have an ID, "jsulliva" for many, many years and many transactions, and you can check our feedback on that ID, but it was just too confusing to have any of my knitting transactions, which have to be recorded in my bookkeeping, mixed in with personal transactions, so now I have some eBay things under diana_natters. I would prefer dianaknits, but somebody else has that one. I also have a sales site, www.dianaknits.com, which is my own domain name and has my products free of eBay and its various positive and negative attributes.
Also, please know that I greatly appreciate international orders, charge a low shipping fee, and send them USPS first class mail. Unfortunately, they do take up to three weeks to arrive. The international priority mail is quite costly. If anyone wants to pay for that, email me and I'll do it. I'm too cheap, myself, and when I buy from overseas I go with ordinary mail and wait...and wait.
While we were in California, we visited John's mom, who had her 85th birthday, and her daughter. We saw my niece Heidi, her husband Chris, and baby Riley, who just had her first birthday. We visited other friends in our old town. Then we visited my sister Karen, her husband Jeff and gorgeous children Branden and Anna. Next, we visited my sister Sharon, husband Maynard, grown daughter Christine (the real Legally Blonde), Christine's friend James, Sharon's son Thomas and Thomas' friend Lisa. We went to Huntington Beach and met our tenant and her son - really nice people - and I had my first look at our new-to-us property there. Then we went to the TSCPA annual meeting for two days and hung out with my lovely CPA buds, and finally back to John's mom's house. Whew. I hardly know what hit me! We did all this in a little over a week, visiting San Bernardino, Highland, Moreno Valley, Simi Valley, Huntington Beach, Sunset Beach, Costa Mesa, and San Diego. Whew.
We had spectacular, cool weather in California. I hear it rained here.
And, in the middle of all that, I woke up one day with a sick tooth and visited a dentist and then an endodontist. I need dental work once I get through the antibiotics, but I felt better quickly.
We certainly ate a lot. Now that I'm home it's back to counting Weight Watcher points for me! It's much too important not to regain the weight I've lost.
I didn't work on "Enchanted Edgings" too much, but John and I went over it and decided to move the silly fairy tale that was an into to the end and keep the beginning completely knitting-related. I still have one chart to add, the table of contents, and some serious video editing. Everything takes me forever; I certainly hope the time I took is reflected in the quality of the product.
When we finally had access to the internet, how painful it was to hear of the end of Knit Words magazine! I have been a huge fan from almost the beginning, and I really am grieving. If you can get some back issues, please do; Mary Anne included such wonderful instructions in each edition that her magazines represented a wonderful opportunity to improve knitting skills. I wish her the very best in her future endeavors, whatever they may be; and I fully expect her to achieve every success, knowing what a talented person she is and what quality work she does.
While we were in California, our son Steven packed and mailed all the orders so nobody would have to wait unduly. Our policy is to mail every weekday, if we have an order. Steve is a smart and careful young man, followed detailed instructions, and didn't want any of my customers disappointed. If anyone had the least problem with an order this week, please let me know.
I want you all to know that I have a new eBay ID. John and I have an ID, "jsulliva" for many, many years and many transactions, and you can check our feedback on that ID, but it was just too confusing to have any of my knitting transactions, which have to be recorded in my bookkeeping, mixed in with personal transactions, so now I have some eBay things under diana_natters. I would prefer dianaknits, but somebody else has that one. I also have a sales site, www.dianaknits.com, which is my own domain name and has my products free of eBay and its various positive and negative attributes.
Also, please know that I greatly appreciate international orders, charge a low shipping fee, and send them USPS first class mail. Unfortunately, they do take up to three weeks to arrive. The international priority mail is quite costly. If anyone wants to pay for that, email me and I'll do it. I'm too cheap, myself, and when I buy from overseas I go with ordinary mail and wait...and wait.
While we were in California, we visited John's mom, who had her 85th birthday, and her daughter. We saw my niece Heidi, her husband Chris, and baby Riley, who just had her first birthday. We visited other friends in our old town. Then we visited my sister Karen, her husband Jeff and gorgeous children Branden and Anna. Next, we visited my sister Sharon, husband Maynard, grown daughter Christine (the real Legally Blonde), Christine's friend James, Sharon's son Thomas and Thomas' friend Lisa. We went to Huntington Beach and met our tenant and her son - really nice people - and I had my first look at our new-to-us property there. Then we went to the TSCPA annual meeting for two days and hung out with my lovely CPA buds, and finally back to John's mom's house. Whew. I hardly know what hit me! We did all this in a little over a week, visiting San Bernardino, Highland, Moreno Valley, Simi Valley, Huntington Beach, Sunset Beach, Costa Mesa, and San Diego. Whew.
We had spectacular, cool weather in California. I hear it rained here.
And, in the middle of all that, I woke up one day with a sick tooth and visited a dentist and then an endodontist. I need dental work once I get through the antibiotics, but I felt better quickly.
We certainly ate a lot. Now that I'm home it's back to counting Weight Watcher points for me! It's much too important not to regain the weight I've lost.
I didn't work on "Enchanted Edgings" too much, but John and I went over it and decided to move the silly fairy tale that was an into to the end and keep the beginning completely knitting-related. I still have one chart to add, the table of contents, and some serious video editing. Everything takes me forever; I certainly hope the time I took is reflected in the quality of the product.
When we finally had access to the internet, how painful it was to hear of the end of Knit Words magazine! I have been a huge fan from almost the beginning, and I really am grieving. If you can get some back issues, please do; Mary Anne included such wonderful instructions in each edition that her magazines represented a wonderful opportunity to improve knitting skills. I wish her the very best in her future endeavors, whatever they may be; and I fully expect her to achieve every success, knowing what a talented person she is and what quality work she does.
Friday, July 2, 2010
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Huntington Beach
We're in HB today! We spent the night at Best Western just down the street from my awesome sister Sharon's house (she is the printing expert owns Print Experience). We had supper with her family. She cooked for us, and John has declared her lasagna the best he's had in years, if not ever. He says it's so long since I've cooked any that he can't remember if mine is any good!
We went and saw our condo today. John and I bought a condo that I had never seen! He did the research and shopping. I was very pleased. It's small place by Texas standards, but it's a rough life with incredible, gorgeous weather, you smell the ocean, and you can walk down to your own private boat slip. We have it rented to a nice family; the son likes to jog to the beach and back.
Yesterday we had been in Simi Valley visiting the other sister, and I woke up with a swollen face after a rough night with a sick tooth. Sharon suggested I see Dr. Daniel Chung in Costa Mesa, who fit me in. He's great; if/when we retire here, I've got my dentist staked out. I'm taking a prescription to get it all calmed down and when I return to Texas, I should be ready to see my dentist and get down to root causes (groan).
Simi Valley is gorgeous, like a big garden. The jacarandas are in bloom. Karen ("baby" sister) says there was enough moisture for a beautiful spring.
Tomorrow, we head for San Diego, where I'm attending the Texas Society of CPAs annual meeting.
Our son Steven is keeping the home fires burning, spoiling the dog a little more rotten, and filling some orders for me, too.
We went and saw our condo today. John and I bought a condo that I had never seen! He did the research and shopping. I was very pleased. It's small place by Texas standards, but it's a rough life with incredible, gorgeous weather, you smell the ocean, and you can walk down to your own private boat slip. We have it rented to a nice family; the son likes to jog to the beach and back.
Yesterday we had been in Simi Valley visiting the other sister, and I woke up with a swollen face after a rough night with a sick tooth. Sharon suggested I see Dr. Daniel Chung in Costa Mesa, who fit me in. He's great; if/when we retire here, I've got my dentist staked out. I'm taking a prescription to get it all calmed down and when I return to Texas, I should be ready to see my dentist and get down to root causes (groan).
Simi Valley is gorgeous, like a big garden. The jacarandas are in bloom. Karen ("baby" sister) says there was enough moisture for a beautiful spring.
Tomorrow, we head for San Diego, where I'm attending the Texas Society of CPAs annual meeting.
Our son Steven is keeping the home fires burning, spoiling the dog a little more rotten, and filling some orders for me, too.
Finn Comfort Shoes
These are expensive, but super sturdy, comfy, padded shoes with excellent support in insoles. The guy at the shop added a metatarsal pad for me, and I've been wearing them and not needing my orthotics! They are great for my old feet - which I admit are wide.
Sound Off: Do Free Beginner Videos Help or Hurt Machine Knitting?
Really hate that Knit Words won't be published any more.
But tell me the truth: do the freebies like my free patterns and YouTube video lessons, hurt or help the machine knitting craft? Are all these beginners turning into customers who buy machines, yarn, books, and magazines?
Let me have it, if I deserve it. But know this: I did this enormous amount of work to help keep MK alive, to help our craft. Hardly anyone was teaching beginners, and no beginners means it will all be over soon.
But tell me the truth: do the freebies like my free patterns and YouTube video lessons, hurt or help the machine knitting craft? Are all these beginners turning into customers who buy machines, yarn, books, and magazines?
Let me have it, if I deserve it. But know this: I did this enormous amount of work to help keep MK alive, to help our craft. Hardly anyone was teaching beginners, and no beginners means it will all be over soon.
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