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Yarn thickness for Double Jacquard.
‘Inspiration’ in the October issue reminded me of the dressing gown I made for my son when he was about seven years old. I hadn't long had an electronic machine and decided to design a large dragon for the back. I had a china dragon plate, so drew the design on to paper then on to a Mylar sheet. I took the dressing gown on a trip to Weaver Knits to buy some more yarn and showed it to Mary Weaver whose comment I was very pleased hear when she said “it’s a very balanced design”. Well, I suppose it was not altogether mine but I did draw it for the Mylar sheet. I do hope Mary is well, she did so much for machine knitting.
Dear Anne
I have recently solved a problem I had when doing ‘cut and sew’ necklines. It has always been difficult to keep the knitting ‘square’ to mark the neckline out! When preparing to ‘cut and sew’ last week, I thought of my Swatch Board from B Hague & Co Ltd. The knitted front clung to the board wonderfully and stayed put, while I marked the neck with the assistance of Carl Boyd's Cut and Sew Template. Result - a well balanced neck and 100% success at last! After 54 years of machine knitting I have made a wonderful discovery - never too old to learn, are we! Maybe other knitters thought of this a long time ago, but it may be of use to somebody.
Sue Bond has e-mailed to ask if we would tell you about the Donkey Sanctuary appeal for keen knitters to come forward to help create hand-knitted woolly donkeys to raise funds for the centre.
Hi Anne
I really had to e-mail you and let you know how super I found the Twice As Nice pattern in the March edition. I started it around 1.30 pm on Saturday and by 3.30 pm was wearing it.