April 2018 knit in

Yes, we do love our knit-in's! In April we met for 5 days, off and on for some people. We were in the same location as last fall, and as my last blog so I did not take photos. But I do have some photos of the bedrooms! 

There were 14 people signed up and of those 12 spent all or some of the nights. Those others just came to knit and eat, but slept at home. We had another 3 people who joined us briefly on Saturday for our regular monthly machine knitting meeting (Triangle Machine Knitters). One of our members did the demonstration for the meeting as we take turns doing this throughout the year. This time Shirley talked about lace and the various tools we could use for selecting the needles or transferring the stitches. She demonstrated making lace on the knitting machine. She passed around an unbelievable shawl which she had made on a km from such lightweight yarn that we could not believe it. As the shawl was passed from person to person you could see our hands rise up as the shawl was not nearly as heavy as we expected!! It was like a cloud of, what else?, laceweight woolen yarn! After the demo we each got to show and tell about what we have been knitting lately.

We did not do yarn dying this time, but 3 of us did take time to help a new machine knitter to make her machine work. There was a problem which took a while to figure out. Apparently a refurbished sponge bar was in the SR 860 machine and it did not work as it should. The ribbon on the foam came off and jammed in the needlebed. When the ribbon was removed the machine worked as it should....but a new sponge bar needed to be ordered as we were sure the sponge would quickly wear out.

This was also a time where I saw DAK being used to knit from screen on a brother machine and I got to help the new knitter use DAK to knit from screen with the SR 860....what fun since I have not knit from screen and do not have experience making this work with the SR machine.......Some expert I am!!??  As I mentioned above, we help each other out and learn a lot along the way.

This was a lot to accomplish with the new knitter and her machine. This was definitely not something she (or any of us) could have done on our own. By pooling our knowledge and building on what others said we worked through the problem!!

I love knit-in's!!