Next: Socks on the ribber

I don't know what happened to the machine. Since the p carriage and the p presser didn't arrive yet, I decided to start a new sweater for my niece, I knitted the stockinet hem, the started using punchcard 10 from the basic pack.
I made a complete pattern then it started dopping a load of stitches here and there.
Why, why did that happen, I tried all the other punchcard from the basic pack I've got and they've all worked. Re knitted the sweater three times with no success, then I gace up.
Instead I thought I would knit a pair of socks form the Mary Weaver ribbing attachment book. I'll give it a try. There are patterns for both seamed and circular socks.
We'll see what happens.

Bye for now,

Samantha

What I would like to do - 2

When the p carriage will arrive I will also want to make mesh knitting which is very similar to the drive lace just using different punchcards:



Bye for now,

Samantha

What I would like to do soon

The day before yesterday I bought a p carriage for my ribber to make drive lace, for you that don't know what drive lace is, here's a video from Susan that explainsyou everything:



I hope the p carriage will arrive soon.

Bye for now,

Samantha

What I'm gonna try tomorrow

Tomorrow, I'm gonna try to make Double jacquard, I'm going to make it with the YC1 colour changer that I bought three months ago.
This video from Susan inspired me:



Bye for now,

Samantha

Homemade knitting machine video

I'm sorry but I couldn't help but post this brilliant video that I just saw on YouTube:


Isn't it great, a homemade knitting machine, yes I know it's slow and "real" knitting machines are way much faster, but it's a great diversification to expensive nowadays machines.

What do you think of it


Bye for now,

Samantha

Something about me, and I'm back

Here I am, posting again after three weeks of strike and I decided that today I would talk about me instead of my knitting.
Well, I should start by talking about my high school years, oh, how great they were, didn't you like your high school, and as a matter of fact I'm a bit curious I'll put a poll up and let me know.
But anyway, as I was saying I loved high school, I attended CPAs school here in Italy, and I loved it mainly because it had many subjects that I liked, such as economy, and we studied some subjects that aren't in use anymore, such as computerized calculation, which didn't have nothing of computer that we use now.
We also studied shorthand which I really really liked, mainly because of our teacher which was so strange but so funny at the same time. You see, she was very old, and although more than 30 years have gone by she's still alive and kicking, anyway, she always looked tired and sleepy but when she went to the black board and wrote those strange signs, I mean she was so fast that I remember saying in mind, her hand, her hand's gonna fall from the wrist!
And are there a lot of you out there that studied shorthand?

More next time,
Was I boring?

Bye for now,

Samantha