wizdmzchyld message #1
Hi Alice
November 24, 2009 at 1:40:27 PM
 
I'm Charlene.  I live in Kansas and I knit.  I knit with 2 sticks and have 2 manual knitting beds.  I love them.  I've been 2 sticking it since I was 5 and learning the Brother 260 and the LK 150 for the past couple of years.    Nice to meet you.  Hope this site turns out to be rollicking fun.

Charlene

wizdmzchyld message #3
Re: Hi Alice
November 26, 2009 at 8:54:45 AM
 
My machines were accidental.  I was having trouble knitting with 2 sticks due to carpel tunnel in both hands.  Strangely, it never affects my typing.  However, my Papa came home one night from a local auction with two knitting machines.  He got them for $10.00.  Neither one hat all it's components, and once I began researching and finding out what they were capable of, I was hooked.

I spent two years saving and getting the parts and tools, had the 260 serviced.  Sold the Passap DM 80 and bought the LK 150 from a friend.  I've spent the last year learning how to use these machines and I'm so hooked.  I still do regular knitting with 2 needles, but am amazed at how fast I can make things with the machines.

Now I knit and sell what I knit so as to fund more knitting.  I do gifts for family and friends.  I just finished a shrug for my 16 year old niece.  I'll get a picture and post it.  I took the cable idea from a hand knitting pattern and adapted it to a shrug.  Even on the 260 bed it took four days.  Not something I would do except for love.  This one was hard work.

Charlene

wizdmzchyld message #5
Re: Hi Alice
November 26, 2009 at 9:18:36 PM
 
The plan is to take pictures tomorrow morning.  A friend also asked to see pictures so I'll add them to the album I started on here today.  Thanks for your interest.  I told my friend that I'd never do that again except for love or $250.00.

Charlene