Hand Manipulated Stitches- Machine Knitters
November 10, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under knitting, lace
A friend of mine has just started exploring the delights of working with a knitting machine.
I hopped up and down,
pointing at this totally
awesome book that I
bought more than 15 years ago.
Luckily,
Hand Manipulated Stitches
for Machine Knitters
by Susan Guagliumi,
published by Taunton Press,
in 1990, is still available.
This book is stuffed full of
useful ways of maximizing
the creative possibilities of working with knitting machines.
It’s one of those ‘foundation’ books that you just have to have if you are going to be using the knitting machine as a tool in your fiber arts.
I am soooooooooo glad that it is still in print, and I hope that …read more
A Lace Edging Worked on a Knitting Machine
July 9, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under knitting
This morning, I was working away on a posting about the Fanciful Flat Fiber Friend Dolls, when a note popped up in my mail box.
A reader was asking me to please post a chart for the knitted lace edging that I designed for the baby blanket that I posted about in June.
She needs to get an edging done asap, so I stopped what I was doing, and sat down with my graph paper and went to work.
I was rushed when I was knitting the baby blankie for father’s day, so foolishly, didn’t write down what I had done. Silly of …read more
