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A Fair Question
Well, I just wanted to follow up here on this issue. I made a truly
beatiful baby bunting bag in a fairisle design of single ply angora (multiple colors) on cream color kid lambs wool. I used cut and sew for assembly (so it would qualify) and lined it with 100% cotton knit material) with a zipper up the front. I knew that no mattet how beatiful I made it or how difficult it was manipulating all the stitches on the machine.....it would probably be disqualified in the regular knit category. But, I thought it was so nice I really wanted to risk it and show it off so I put it in under regular sewn baby items. I realized it would have to compete against all the other regular sewn items with whatever fine sewn details they had...but I wanted to risk it anyway. Even if I were a judge I know that I couldn't have given it any points on the actual "making" of the material" just on the construction, which was basic. As luck would have it....it was the only item entered in that category so it took a blue ribbon! I am still very proud of my baby bunting and wish there were a separate category for machine knitters. I guess based on the lack of posters in this group....that interest in MK is waning. Joy On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 07:17:14 -0400, Mike Hardie wrote: Has anybody ever entered a Machine Knit item in a State Fair? Do they judge it against the regular hand knit stuff? My 11 year old daugther made a really cute MK kitten, wearing a dress and ruffled slip with a bonnet. It turned out beautiful and was not an easy project. At the Fair she only earned an Honorable Mention while some really sloppy simple hand knit things took all th top awards. Does your fair have a separate category for MK? If there is no separate category do you bother entering? I really want to pull my knitting machine out again after a couple years away from it...but I am also trying for "exhibitor of the year" at our fair and don't want to "waste" any effort on a project that wont way-off this year. Joy ps. If there was a MK category...then it would probably come down to who had the most technical advanced machine with the most gadgets? |
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Not to mention that interest in entering fairs is waning even more quickly.
The MD state fair used to have a lot of machine knitting categories, but I didn't even look at a premium list this year. No time to haul myself miles and miles to enter and pick up items at inconvenient hours even if I had set aside anything to keep it nice enough to enter. | On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 08:03:49 -0400, Mike Hardie wrote: Well, I just wanted to follow up here on this issue. I made a truly beatiful baby bunting bag in a fairisle design of single ply angora (multiple colors) on cream color kid lambs wool. I used cut and sew for assembly (so it would qualify) and lined it with 100% cotton knit material) with a zipper up the front. I knew that no mattet how beatiful I made it or how difficult it was manipulating all the stitches on the machine.....it would probably be disqualified in the regular knit category. But, I thought it was so nice I really wanted to risk it and show it off so I put it in under regular sewn baby items. I realized it would have to compete against all the other regular sewn items with whatever fine sewn details they had...but I wanted to risk it anyway. Even if I were a judge I know that I couldn't have given it any points on the actual "making" of the material" just on the construction, which was basic. As luck would have it....it was the only item entered in that category so it took a blue ribbon! I am still very proud of my baby bunting and wish there were a separate category for machine knitters. I guess based on the lack of posters in this group....that interest in MK is waning. Joy Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist in Fairland, MD USA http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/ |
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Joy,
Congratulations! I'm sorry to see that there is not much activity on this list. I'm brand new to machine knitting and it seems nearly impossible to find others who machine knit. It looks like they're all in the UK and New Zealand. I wonder why it's so dead over here in the US. Susan "Mike Hardie" wrote in message ... Well, I just wanted to follow up here on this issue. I made a truly beatiful baby bunting bag in a fairisle design of single ply angora (multiple colors) on cream color kid lambs wool. I used cut and sew for assembly (so it would qualify) and lined it with 100% cotton knit material) with a zipper up the front. I knew that no mattet how beatiful I made it or how difficult it was manipulating all the stitches on the machine.....it would probably be disqualified in the regular knit category. But, I thought it was so nice I really wanted to risk it and show it off so I put it in under regular sewn baby items. I realized it would have to compete against all the other regular sewn items with whatever fine sewn details they had...but I wanted to risk it anyway. Even if I were a judge I know that I couldn't have given it any points on the actual "making" of the material" just on the construction, which was basic. As luck would have it....it was the only item entered in that category so it took a blue ribbon! I am still very proud of my baby bunting and wish there were a separate category for machine knitters. I guess based on the lack of posters in this group....that interest in MK is waning. Joy On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 07:17:14 -0400, Mike Hardie wrote: Has anybody ever entered a Machine Knit item in a State Fair? Do they judge it against the regular hand knit stuff? My 11 year old daugther made a really cute MK kitten, wearing a dress and ruffled slip with a bonnet. It turned out beautiful and was not an easy project. At the Fair she only earned an Honorable Mention while some really sloppy simple hand knit things took all th top awards. Does your fair have a separate category for MK? If there is no separate category do you bother entering? I really want to pull my knitting machine out again after a couple years away from it...but I am also trying for "exhibitor of the year" at our fair and don't want to "waste" any effort on a project that wont way-off this year. Joy ps. If there was a MK category...then it would probably come down to who had the most technical advanced machine with the most gadgets? |
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There are plenty of machine knitting related groups and several are very active, you are just in the wrong place---try yahoo groups http://groups.yahoo.com --do a search for machine knitting and knitting machine shelly H On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:16:24 -0600, "Lawman" wrote: Joy, Congratulations! I'm sorry to see that there is not much activity on this list. I'm brand new to machine knitting and it seems nearly impossible to find others who machine knit. It looks like they're all in the UK and New Zealand. I wonder why it's so dead over here in the US. Susan |
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In my humble opinion,
The availability of economical imported knitted goods have had a big impact on machine knitting. When one can purchase a completed garment for less than 1/2 the price of yarn needed for the garment, then we all question the validity of our labor. Following that premise, there are fewer and fewer machine knitting dealers. Those that are still in business, are working very hard to promote machine knitting. The importers don't seem to be advertising heavily enough in the right places to entice new knitters. The price of raw material has not dropped, nor has the price of machines. "Artisan" brand is in a good price and value point for what you get; handmanipulated / punchcard. On the optimistic side of things, handknitting seems to be taking off, hopefully they will discover the benefits of the knitting machine. MAC, On. Ca. Congratulations! I'm sorry to see that there is not much activity on this list. I'm brand new to machine knitting and it seems nearly impossible to find others who machine knit. It looks like they're all in the UK and New Zealand. I wonder why it's so dead over here in the US. Susan |
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