I decided to practice a bit on my knitting machine, but doing anything besides the most simple of constructions is nearly impossible without having weight to hold your work down (creating the tension).
I’ll be getting some this week. I can’t wait to get started on my first sweater on this!
I was given a few knitting machines a while back, but didn’t have the mental space to get them set up, since I was living rather rough at the time. I had traded my PC Bulky (a bulky machine with ribber; a KH/KR 260) for lessons in setting up and using my KH891, but my fiber guild leader somehow never had time after that for the two afternoon project (for a year and a half—and even now that I’ve reminded her again after my move, she’s dodging me). I wish I had the Bulky now! Or some help with some of the things I’m having to stumble across. I’d rather take the lessons, but it seems my things are stolen for nothing. Life when you’re already poor, people think you don’t deserve what you have.
But I am having fun watching the Machine Knitting course I bought for my last birthday, and YouTube videos, and trying them out with inexpensive yarn. Today I’m going to try a folded hem, then I move on to my first MK sweater.
Life & Fiber 