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Machine Knitting
Hi,
I was beginning to feel like the machine knitting world had left me behind. It seemed like EVERONE was getting electronic and getting rid of their old punchcard machines. So many of the new beautiful patterns were only able to be done on the electronic it was disheartening. I really only read here but am starting to get anxious about my machine gathering dust. Not too much seems to be going on in the group here lately, very inactive and very few responses. Don't be disheartened. Welcome to the group... (from just a non-knitting wanna-be) Joy I aim to get back to do a little machine knitting........due to ill health...i havn't done any for a long time.......i switched to machine embroidery which i just love.....because of the heavy weights and so on... I have a Brother 830 punch card ......I got rid of all my electronic equipment..but kept my old faithful.... So I am hopeing i can please join in with the newsgroup...when i can.......... Happy Knitting.....and crafting to you all......... |
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| On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 14:46:55 GMT, Joy Hardie wrote:
Hi, I was beginning to feel like the machine knitting world had left me behind. It seemed like EVERONE was getting electronic and getting rid of their old punchcard machines. So many of the new beautiful patterns were only able to be done on the electronic it was disheartening. Glad I'm not the only one who's resisted electronic! Heck, some of my favorite projects didn't use any patterning at all, just shaping. Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/ Balticon Art Program Coordinator http://www.balticon.org |
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from "Helen \"Halla\" Fleischer" contains these words: Glad I'm not the only one who's resisted electronic! Heck, some of my favorite projects didn't use any patterning at all, just shaping. From 1967 until 1984 U had a Brother machine that didn't even have punchcards. You pressed buttons and pushed a lever on every row and you had to lay the contrast yarn across manually over an eight stitch pattern repeat.. Then I entered a competition in a daily paper to win a Brother 910 electronic, the first electronic they made and to my amazement I won it. We had a happy relationship until last year when the pattern reading mechanism packed up and because of its age spare parts couldn't be obtained. Although I think fondly of my first little machine I must admit an electronic does open up a different world. I had to replace my 910 with a 950i and am quite happy with it. -- Marion |
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| On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 18:29:37 GMT, Marion Pearcey wrote:
Glad I'm not the only one who's resisted electronic! Heck, some of my favorite projects didn't use any patterning at all, just shaping. From 1967 until 1984 U had a Brother machine that didn't even have punchcards. You pressed buttons and pushed a lever on every row and you had to lay the contrast yarn across manually over an eight stitch pattern repeat.. LOL, for a moment there, I wondered how you knew I'd had a machine like that. But I got mine about 10 years later and traded up to a punchcard 860 in '84. It still works beautifully, unlike the 910 I bought later, which turned out to be brain dead, and by then brain transplants were no longer available. That's one argument for the purely mechanical machines; no brain to die. Then I entered a competition in a daily paper to win a Brother 910 electronic, the first electronic they made and to my amazement I won it. We had a happy relationship until last year when the pattern reading mechanism packed up and because of its age spare parts couldn't be obtained. Although I think fondly of my first little machine I must admit an electronic does open up a different world. I had to replace my 910 with a 950i and am quite happy with it. Yes, that 950i sure looks like a nice machine. I also think fondly of my old Genie 710 push-button machine. Sometimes I wish I'd kept it instead of trading it in. Helen "Halla" Fleischer, Fantasy & Fiber Artist http://home.covad.net/~drgandalf/halla/ Balticon Art Program Coordinator http://www.balticon.org |
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