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After work and taking Grandma home after her day surgery Amy and I did a little cacheing then went back to her place before she had a student... she made tea but her student arrived before we could drink it. So I had a great crafty chat with Alissa, one of Amy's housemates. Alissa had recently acquired an old knitting machine, and walked me through a little bit of basic knitting on it. It's a darned cool machine, and I imagine once you got your head around it the possibilities would be near endless!

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[vereybowring.livejournal.com]

My father worked for a while at Jaeger knitwear and had three machines at home, including one that used punch cards to allow you to put patterns on the knitwear.
It used to take him a day to make one adult jumper start to finish.
I never had a lack of nice warm jumpers growing up.

[confusedcious.livejournal.com]

Oh, that must have been great! My mother was very talented, but she didn't have the speed advantage one of these brings...