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nora

Joined: 20 Mar 2005
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Location: West Yorkshire

Posted: Sun Sep 04, 05 9:43 pm Post subject:
Sally, what about these for something to knit while you wait for a sock machine to turn up?! https://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter02/PATTnosewarmer.html I've also just noticed that there is a pattern on the same site for making big socks and then felting them down to the right size. https://www.knitty.com/ISSUEwinter02/PATTfuzzyfeet.html

sally_in_wales
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Joined: 06 Mar 2005
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Location: sunny wales

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 05 7:58 am Post subject:
Ooh! Nosewarmers! Can we start a fashion trend???

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Mon Sep 05, 05 8:08 am Post subject:

Rï¿½isï¿½n wrote:

Sally, I worked in a haberdasheries and those needles are still for sale in your normal fabric/ haberdashery shop. If you really can't find them, the staff should be able to source them for you as they definitely are still being made, and made in England too

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DP needles are no problem, I can make those out of dowel as well as buying the modern metal versions. But do you mean you've seen sock knitting machines still on sale???

Rï¿½isï¿½n

Joined: 30 Jul 2005
Posts: 578

Posted: Mon Sep 05, 05 9:03 am Post subject:
No, sorry, just the needles, no machines

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Posted: Tue Sep 06, 05 7:55 am Post subject:

Second hand domestic sized sock machines come along every now and again - keep your eyes out in eg EXchange and Mart, or textile-related industry magazines. I have seen one or two on e-bay, and there is a firm in Lancashire (I think) who make new ones. They are also demonstrated at the Knitting & Stitching shows, if you ever get to any of them. Quite pricy, ie in the high hundreds.
they are exceedingly heavy and cumbersome, though, even the ones for sue at home - my friend has one she is threatening to lend me, but I reckon I can knit a sock in the time it would take me to thread hers up and make a start.................but I may be wrong. You have to have something weightly on which to put it as well - she uses the base of an old Singer machine, the one with the cast iron legs, etc, otherwise it can "walk" a bit, and you don;t want that falling off your table.................

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