This weekend was the BIG weekend – out in Anaheim, California, thanks to Newton’s Yarn Country, there was a weekend long seminar and knitting machine show, and you can bet I was there! Out on the parking lot, they were selling beautiful yarns, all different colors – it was one of those fun treasure hunts where you seek box to box to find enough of the colors you like. How can you look at all these colors and not want to knit?
Glorious Colors! I want to try them all!
Also fun was to see what others had made using their “magic machines” – my teacher Ruth was there, sporting an amazing outfit that she designed and made herself – WOW!
Ruth's Amazing Outfit, Front and Back. Look at the lovely design in the front, and the elegant ribbing detail in the back - I want to be able to do this!
My two favorite knitting machine creative gurus - Ruth and Dorothy!
While at the show, I was able to sit in on some very valuable demonstrations. I saw Richard Smith create lace using the machine, and learned that to make lace on the machine you need to use both carriages – the lace carraige and the general carriage. You can bet I went home and tried it! In the photo below, the lace carriage is on the left. Working both of these at once isn’t too hard – and actually I felt I got a bit of an upper body workout!
Lace Carriage and General Carriage of the "Magic Machine"
Thanks to my sweet Aunt and Uncle, I am well equiped!
Some of the Lace I created with some of the 2-color Knitwork
Close-up of the 2-color work - I can't believe I made this!
Here I inverted the color choices - the "Magic Machine" makes that easy!
My Sampler almost looks like a scarve!
