Machine Knitting

05/12/2011

The ladies had a blast learning how to machine knit and worked like machines themselves. Soon I'll show you the PILE of products they have produced. It's very impressive. My portion of the program received a large donation of quiviut yarn which is made from the fleece of the local Muskox. It is softest and warmest fleece in the world- actually! all the brown products that you see in the pics are made with quiviut.

As you can see they have already begun creating designs, like muskox and roses, using both the electronic and punch card machines. Pretty amazing!

Comments

Sasha link

05/13/2011 12:42am

Darlin! These pics look amazing! Qiviut is the best of the best...I have headband that keeps me warm everyday, even when it's -17 in May. Seee you soooon <3 Thanks for posting.

Ana link

05/13/2011 2:06am

Love it Janna! So nice to see an update--you and your class are amazing! xo

rebecca link

05/13/2011 9:57am

Looks fabulous. We are just getting the studio set up and by divine intervention I now have 2 knitting machines which I havent tried yet......did my final project on the knitting machine at school.....cant wait.
Its great to see what your doing!
Rebecca

Janna

05/13/2011 9:30pm

Thanks ladies!

Rebecca who is 'we' and where is your studio? Congrats on getting ALL your supplies and equipment in order! I know you have everything a lady would need to have well operating studio, so I'm super stoked to hear it all happening :)

I'm so sad that I'm missing your grad show. Have a blast!!!

Ada Ekootak

05/25/2011 11:34am

The ladies miss you, they're hoping your travels were good and they miss you tremendously, so do I. Keep in touch.

janna

05/25/2011 3:18pm

I miss you all so much too Ada. Thank you so much for passing on the message. I took everyone's snail mail addresses so they will all be getting treats in the mail.