At 04:05 14/05/2008, you wrote: >Lurker here. I own 3 knitting machines: a regular Studio with ribbing >attachment, a regular Studio with no ribber, and a chunky Studio. I >haven't used >them much lately but when my kids were small I was always making them hats, >scarves, lined mittens, and sweaters. I used to be in craft fairs and made >pretty good money just selling lined mittens and slippers. You don't >have to know >how to hand knit to use a machine because the terminology is complete >different. > >I also own a very old stocking knitting machine that is circular. I haven't >done anything with that yet. I am curious to see if I could make stockings on >it that re enactors could use.
A lady here in the U. K. makes lovely stockings with a machine. You might like to contact her and ask her advice/help. Her name is Sally Pointer. http://www.sallypointer.com/ Suzi _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
