Hand y Machine Knitting

Ravelry

This podcast now has a group on Ravelry called “Hand y Machine Knitting Podcast”.

What Would Ruthie Say?

Ruthie would say “Eat your food, don’t waste it!” I say to eat your food while it’s fresh.

Events

July 24-25 is the Monroe knitting machine event in Monroe, Michigan. Contact Cathy Reaume(734)-243-3016. [email protected]

Stitches Midwest in Schaumberg Illinois August 6-9 

Jackson County Fair August 9-15, 2015.

Michigan Fiber Festival August 15-16 near Allegan, Michigan.

Circular Sock Machine gathering in Grand Ledge, Michigan August 22, 2015. This event is organized by Carol Larsen of Rivers Edge Fiber Arts http://www.riversedgefiberarts.com/ 

and Eric Wolff of Browning and Wolff 

http://www.browningandwolff.etsy.com/

Acquisitions

I bought one skein of yarn from Julianas Fibre it is the Silver Lining Sock yarn.

Opal sock yarn for Detroit Tiger fans.

Ardent by Janina Kallio.

Hand Knitting

I finished 28’s Big Sister 77 by Lynne Ashton. Made from sock yarn from Three Waters Farm on Etsy. It is for the Knitgirllls KAL.

I am making a pair of slip stitch socks with Malabrigo sock yarn in the 850 Archangel colorway.

I’ve begun my vacation knitting by casting on the Gusset-Heel Gansey Sock by Katherine Misegades. I’m sorry about the mispronunciation of her name. Knitting with Beaverslide Dry Goods merino wool.

Machine Knitting

Brother’s birthday socks in Lana Grossa Mega Boots Stretch Softcolor in the color #509. 

Spouse’s socks in Eric’s yarn.

Fair entry in Regia Racing Color socks in the Mini Cooper colorway #8891.

TBD socks in HPKY Donegal Sock Yarn Superwash Colorway unknown.

Mismatched socks in Red Heart Heart and Sole yarn in the Congo colorway.

All are knit with either the NZAK 60 cylinder or the Legare 400 72 cylinder. The cuff is 1 by 1 rib, the leg is 3 by 1 rib, short row heel and either a hand knit round toe or a short row toe done on the machine and later grafted.

Contact Information

My Ravelry name is annejeneer. Send me a friend request and please consider joining our Ravelry group for this podcast. I would love to hear from you - especially if you want to come on the show to talk about your own machine knitting experiences.

Episode 8 - What Would Ruthie Say?

Ravelry

This podcast now has a group on Ravelry called “Hand y Machine Knitting Podcast”. Please join up. Thanks to Siobhan, Grania, Jan, yorksett, Lisa and Pam for posting.

What Would Ruthie Say?

I forgot to mention that Ruthie is my mother’s name! Ha! That would have been relevant. Ruthie would say “Use your library to save money!”

Likes & Dislikes

Judy Judy rules! LIKE!

Rascally rabits! DISLIKE!

Events

July 24-25 is the Monroe knitting machine event in Monroe, Michigan. Contact Cathy Reaume(734)-243-3016. [email protected]

Jackson County Fair August 9-15, 2015.

Michigan Fiber Festival August 15-16 near Allegan, Michigan.

Circular Sock Machine gathering in Grand Ledge, Michigan August 22, 2015.

This event is organized by Carol Larsen of Rivers Edge Fiber Arts http://www.riversedgefiberarts.com/ 

and 

Eric Wolff of Browning and Wolff 

http://www.browningandwolff.etsy.com/

Acquisitions

I bought one skein of yarn from Three Waters Farm on Etsy. It is for the Knitgirllls KAL.

I mentioned these patterns:

Hummingbird socks by Sandi Rosner from the Knittter’s Book of Socks. 

Morning Dove Shawlette by Pam Jemelian

Ardent by Janina Kallio

28’s Big Sister 77 by Lynne Ashton.

Hand Knitting

Paradoxical Mittens by Lucy Neatby

Opal Sock Yarn Bunny by Susan B. Anderson

No love on the Aranami shawl this month.

Machine Knitting

Spouse’s v-neck saddle-shoulder cardigan on the LK 150 machine. I used the Cochenille Garment Designer software to create the pattern.

I used Lopi yarn in color number 0052 (gray).

CSM socks for the nephew-in-law’s 50th birthday felted dramatically so he got a pair that I had made for the spouse that he hadn’t yet worn. I don’t think my nephew-in-law appreciated the socks but he was distracted so hopefully he will learn about the wonderfulness when he puts them on someday.

Resources

Craftsy classes consulted during the finishing of the gray cardigan - The Essential Guide to Finishing Hand Knits with Anne Hanson and Essential Techniques Every Knitter Should Know with Sally Melville. 

Couture button sewing tutorial by the Knitmore Girls to sew on the buttons with backer buttons for stability. 

Cochenille Garment Designer software used for creating the gray cardigan pattern.

One row buttonhole tutorial (I used Sally Melville’s description in the Knit Stitch book). Bing it for yourself!

Contact Information

My Ravelry name is annejeneer. Send me a friend request and please consider joining our Ravelry group for this podcast. I would love to hear from you - especially if you want to come on the show to talk about your own machine knitting experiences.

Episode 7 - A major life event

Bygones

Are you on Ravelry? If so, would you join a group devoted to this podcast? I mean you don’t have to be really devoted to it but would you join it? I need to have at least three people before I can be a group.

Major life announcement

I’ve retired - or will be retired by June 30.

A plan for a structured week:

Likes & Dislikes

No furnace and no air conditioning in May! Lowest gas and electric utility bill of the year. LIKE!

Paperwork always piles up. DISLIKE!

Events

Circular Sock Machine gathering in Grand Ledge, Michigan

This event was organized by Carol Larsen of Rivers Edge Fiber Arts http://www.riversedgefiberarts.com/ 

and 

Eric Wolff of Browning and Wolff 

http://www.browningandwolff.etsy.com/

Come to the next one on August 22.

July 24-25 is the Monroe knitting machine event in Monroe, Michigan. Contact Cathy Reaume(734)-243-3016. 

Acquisitions

I bought one skein of hand dyed yarn from Carol Larsen and six balls of Zauberball in the Tropical Fish colorway to make the Ten Stitch Blanket by Frankie Brown. Check out the project that inspired me.

Here’s the Youtube video link two parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnBEWkQABtQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GQxCwxSAtU

Hand Knitting

For Angie’s baby girl:

Scrappy Sock Yarn Preemie Hat by Greg Cohoon. The pattern costs $3.00 but Greg is donating all the proceeds to Family Support Network of Central Carolina. 

I made the newborn size and then dyed it pink. 

For Sara’s baby girl:

Miss Daisy cardigan by Lisa Chemrey.

I used some hand spun yarn (White Pine Fiberworks) that had been in my stash forever. I bought it at the Spinner’s Flock event in Chelsea.

I used Wilton’s food safe cake dyes to dye yarn. Here is a link to their site with all the information about yarn dyeing.

I used a skein of Steinbach Wolle Activ Pronto 6 ply sock yarn.

I made a pair of Turkish Bed Socks.

No love on the Aranami shawl this month. 

I finished the lunchtime mittens.

I forgot to mention that I  started and finished knit the Golden Cherries Shawlette by Pam Jemelian. I used Quince and Co Chickadee yarn.

Machine Knitting

Spouse’s v-neck saddle-shoulder cardigan on the LK 150 machine. I used the Cochenille Garment Designer software to  create the pattern.

All pieces are knitted and blocked and are awaiting seaming and a hand knitted button band and lower edge. 

I used Lopi yarn.

After I get this podcast episode uploaded, I’m going to work on seaming and hand knitting the ribbing at the hem and the button bands. I may have enough Lopi yarn in color number 0052 (gray) for a shawl collar.

Next up is machine knitted socks for my nephew-in-law’s 50th birthday. 

Contact Information

Check out my personal card.

Episode 6 Show Notes - Spring Fling Recap

You should listen to Paula’s Knitting Pipeline Podcast

Charlene Shafer’s Knit Knack Shop

Susan Guagliumi, author, instructor

Sandee Cherry, author, pattern designer

Susan Lazear, professor, designer, software development

Sarah Etchison, machine knitting instructor

Barb Endler and Sue Adams, great instructors

pork tenderloin sandwich, an Indiana treat

Tamm Yarns

Turkish Bed Socks

Neon Now by Plymouth Yarns

Aranami shawl by Olga Buraya-Kefelian

l’enveloppe by Sally Mellville

Lindy Chain by Knit Picks

Diamond Select Footsie color 409

CSM gathering in Grand Ledge Michigan April 25, 2015

Monroe Seminar July 24-25, 2015

Cathy Reaume(734)-243-3016

My Ravelry name is annejeneer. You can reach me there.
Show notes can be found at: handymachineknitting.libsyn.com

Episode 5 - I’ve Been Schooled

Bygones

Cough, cough

Hand Knitting

I finished the knitting on my l’envelope.

Lunch hour mittens based on this pattern. 

Vuorelan luumut

Machine Knitting

A 5 x 1 pair of 60 stitch socks on the NZAK Paton’s Kroy Socks FX – chambray colors.

A 3 x 1 ribbed pair of 60 stitch socks on the NZAD 

Bergere de France.

Likes and Dislikes

Like - The Complete Vegetarian Cookbook

Dislike - Disrespectful library patrons

Acquisitions

Knit Stop in Indianapolis, IN

Squishy yarn

Nomad Yarns in Plainfield, IN

Malabrigo Sockyarn in the color way Archangel

Events

Spring Fling April 17 – 18 in Peru Indiana

Mid-Michigan CSM Social Gathering April 25 in Grand Ledge, MI.

Carol Larsen and Eric Wolff

River's Edge Fiber Arts, and Browning & Wolff

517-643-9968

[email protected]

CSM Class Recap

JCCampbell Folk School in Brasstown NC

Excellent instructors - Lucy Best and Eric Wolff

Johnson City is the home of East Tennessee State University.

Two-Part Invention In A-Minor composed by my son, Nick.

My Ravelry name is annejeneer.

Show notes coming soon

Links for the Bonus Interview Episodes

Susan Guagliumi

Carol Scott [email protected]

Style.com

College of DuPage

This interview was recorded in October 2014 at Vogue Knitting Live in Chicago Illinois.

If you haven't already, you should check out all three of the machine knitting books Susan has written and, if you're a big fan, check out the garden book as well.

Susan Guagliumi

Hand y Machine Knitting Podcast - Episode 3

Bygones

I improved the sound this time but I coughed near the end of the podcast so I apologize for that now.

Likes

Sugar cubes (not the band)

Dislikes

“Creative” singing of the national anthem

Hand Knitting
Turkish Bed Socks using JoJoland Melody sock yarn - probably going to the frog pond

Toe up seed stitch ribbed sock using Trekking sock yarn colorway 177, started with Judy’s Magic Cast On (JMCO). All done and in my sock drawer.

Peerie Flooers hat by Kate Davies, done and glorious

Machine Knitting in Progress
Shaker style socks made from a skein of Opal Schafpate colorway Paula - sent to recipient

Sock Architecture by Lara Neel

Coming Events

I’ll be attending the CSM knitting class at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown NC during the week of February 5 of 2015. Taught by instructors Lucy Best and Eric Wolff (his Etsy shop) 

My husband is taking the Asian Cuisine cooking class.

I’ll be attending the Spring Fling Knitting Machine event in Indiana in April 2014. Susan Guagliumi and Diana Sullivan are two of the featured instructors.

My Ravelry name is annejeneer. You can reach me there.
Show notes can be found at: handymachineknitting.libsyn.com

Episode 2 - Vogue Knitting Live Recap

Bygones

I changed the name of the podcast after the first episode!

Events

Vogue Knitting Live Recap

Susan Guagliumi

Leslye Solomon

Noro Silk Garden colorway 2090 

blocking wires from Woolstock

Carol Scott [email protected]

Ravelry Groups

FLOSS 

Sock Knitting Machines and Friends

Machine Knitting

Circular Sock Machine

Circular Sock Knitting Machine Society

and I forgot to mention this one

Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine Co.

Likes

Vegetarian Times magazine

Dislikes

Rushing the Christmas season

Equipment

LK150 Knitting Machine (see link for Carol Scott)

Lopi yarn colorway 52 - a dark heathered charcoal

Charcoal Ribbed Cardigan from Interweave Knits Holiday Gifts 2006 designed by Kate Kuckro. 

lambswool shawl collared cardigan sweater at Jos A Bank men’s clothing store (I can’t vouch for the quality of this sweater but it’s is tantalizingly inexpensive)

Coming Events

I’ll be attending the CSM knitting class at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown NC during the week of February 5 of 2015. Taught by instructors Lucy Best and Eric Wolff (his Etsy shop) 

My husband is taking the Asian Cuisine cooking class.

I’ll be attending the Spring Fling Knitting Machine event in Indiana in April 2014. Susan Guagliumi and Diana Sullivan are two of the featured instructors.

Machine Knitting in Progress
I made a tube from a skein of Opal Schafpate colorway Paula which will be made into a pair of afterthought heel socks.

I finished the Wrapped Sweater for All Seasons made with Lion Brand LB1878 and designed by Sandee Cherry

Hand Knitting in Progress
Turkish Bed Socks using JoJoland Melody sock yarn. One is done and the other is nearly to the toe.

I am knitting a toe up seed stitch ribbed sock using Trekking sock yarn colorway 177, started with Judy’s Magic Cast On (JMCO). One sock done, the other one has just the toe done.

Happy New Year!