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Well, I’m all recovered from the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival.  It was a wonderful weekend and many spindles found new homes!  Now I can finally post the results of my Kitchener experiments.  First, I realized that I forgot to link both Kristen’s video and the sock machine video that I mentioned in my last post.  Try them both [...]

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I’ve been thinking that I want a different way to do the kitchner stitch. It’s probably most efficient to do it on knitting needles, but I always seem to mess that up (plus I seem to have an aversion to doing any knitting related tasks with needles). When I started making socks, I couldn’t find [...]

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I working on a sideways knit baja style sweatshirt for my husband on a small gauge Markman Farm loom.  I’m almost done the first 1/4 body panel and now I have a new helper.  I’m sure things will go much faster now. lol! Anyway, it’s a cotton wool/blend in assorted colors.  Since I’m knitting sideways, [...]

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I just noticed that I never posted pictures of my finished Saskia.  I was very happy to see just what can be done on a knitting loom.  This one was knit with a three ply on my small gauge Markman Farm loom from wool that I dyed and spindle spun by my little own self! In [...]

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Here’s my Ruana all finished and modeled by it’s recipient, my lovely sil, Kathy.  The pattern is from Isela Phelps Loom Knitters Primer and the yarn is Thirteen Mile Yarn-bulky in Latte.  I had to cast on extra to make up for differences in yarn and loom gauge, but I think it turned out nicely. [...]

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Over on Ravelry, the Beginner’s Lace knitting group has just started to work on Saskia (http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/saskia).  I have my homespun yarn to use up, so, what the heck!  I though I’d give it a try on the loom.  There are just single and double decreases and YO’s to deal with.  I think it’s a pretty managable [...]

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