June in November

I have finally delivered on my promise to my husband to make him a sweater during sweater weather for his birthday in June. I knitted it on my KH965i, a standard gauge Brother electronic machine using preprogrammed patterns originally intended as knit-purl garter carriage patterns, but I set them up for fairisle knitting. The yarn … More June in November

June Birthdays

As I write this, it’s October. I have a number of family members who I consider knit-worthy, whose birthdays were back in June. Although time is real, it’s also a construct, so unless I personally gave birth to these knit-worthy people, if I don’t have a knitted item for them on the date that coincides … More June Birthdays

Four Screws, Silicone Spray, and Adult Supervision

Over the course of the last eight or nine months, I have mentioned in my posts that the needle selection mechanism of my Brother KH965i electronic knitting machine was malfunctioning. I couldn’t imagine how I was going to fix it, so I figured out some clever workarounds to my panic over the fact that it … More Four Screws, Silicone Spray, and Adult Supervision