Friday 26 April 2019

Re-establishing machine and preparing for hols

Because of illness, I am now only just getting the circular machine up and running after the show. I have decided to put the row counter sensor in a different place, but it keeps twisting round the mast. Hey ho. Finishing off another mitred square cushion, this time keeping pretty much to a purple theme, with all four corners same solid purple. I was inundated with cushion interiors from a friend, some are 16 inches, some are 23 inches - the latter may not get used as they will take so much more work and would have to charge more, say £35, and I don't think customers to the museum shop would want to pay that. Also getting ready for holiday knitting. I have made part of a pair of gloves on the flatbed as I want to try out a handknit cuff pattern that is best done in the round. Standard working for hand, but it seems to have come rather short. Easily remedied when I pick up stitches, but it looks as if the thumb gusset starts too high up. This may all work out when the gloves are completed. Gloves should be snug anyway, mittens shrug-off-able. That's my excuse. A couple of days after posting this, I found and downloaded a booklet on 12 different sorts of glove/mitten cuffs. This should provide extra fun!

Wednesday 17 April 2019

Machine Knitting Show

'Twas the annual show at Long Eaton on Sunday. Sales zilch! PR priceless. And now I have a bad back from hauling the machine around.

Sunday 7 April 2019

Wriggletoes

After the Kegworth event this year, Jill of Wrigglefingers paid for her table rent in yarn - two armsful of it! She said that if I made items for the museum it would actually raise more money than if she paid me in cash. What a brilliant idea! She gave me the equivalent of 19 pairs of socks or 38 pairs of handwarmers. This is just the first nine pairs, all labelled up ready for Machine Knitting Show at Long Eaton this coming weekend. I never sell much there, but will aid the display. Back to a few handwarmers now, then it will be more mittens then gloves on the flatbed, because I bet when I go into the museum the stocks have gone down again. Almost time to take on an apprentice?