I hand knit for a charity called Queen Mary’s Clothing Guild and am looking for patterns to knit on the machine. I need things like easy gloves, mitts, hot water bottle covers, easy baby clothes and any other ideas please. I do have a charting device, which I’ve not used for a while and would like to use it again.
What I’d really like is to find a machine knitting pen pal. I also wonder if there’s a local club to get more motivation, but does anyone know where we can get more time please? There are never enough hours in the day to do everything I want. Still, that’s better than being bored with nothing to do.
I do hope you can help Anne.
Mrs M A Watson, Plymouth, Devon
de greasing your punchcard mechanism sounds like a good idea as over the years and when they are in constant use the tend to go realy greasy and seize up use surgical spirit or white spirit to clean and it should be working in no time but please dont use wd40 or any other oil but machine oil can be obtained from singers or on line
spare parts can be obtained via ebay and even good machines at reasonable prices its worth a look
There is a club in Plymouth now – it started earlier this year.
I don’t know if I am allowed to out a phone number on here but if you go to the Contacts Page and look for the clubs in the South West of England section the contact details are there.
I am currently teaching myself to machine knit – so confusing sometimes!! and they are a really helpful group of knitters.
Best of luck.
Diane
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