tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54976225881893303612024-09-07T16:19:30.733-07:00YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-59252584685255453412010-01-07T09:51:00.000-08:002010-01-07T10:04:03.209-08:00<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=wwwmaxwellpic-20&o=1&p=8&l=bpl&asins=B002BS0GJE&fc1=000000&IS2=1&lt1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="align:left;padding-top:5px;width:131px;height:245px;padding-right:10px;" align="left" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>Mine is busy, working on my soon to be posted knitted creations from Qiviut , Cashmere, Alpaca and other fine, ecofriendly yarns;YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-54218497843666560972009-12-31T09:46:00.000-08:002009-12-31T09:46:53.596-08:00<a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4795918_make-fabric-labels.html">How to Make Fabric Labels | eHow.com</a>YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-86585938710201127932009-12-25T12:39:00.001-08:002009-12-25T12:39:23.572-08:00<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=wwwmaxwellpic-20&o=1&p=13&l=ez&f=ifr&f=ifr" width="468" height="60" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" border="0" frameborder="0" style="border:none;"></iframe>YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-38751194598878922172009-12-23T17:34:00.001-08:002009-12-23T17:34:37.845-08:00<a href="a href="http://www.tkga.com"><img src="http://www.tkga.com/cmn/graphics/TKGANewLogo1.gif" width="250" height="93"></a"></a></a><br /> YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-25002574918018457842009-12-16T08:37:00.000-08:002009-12-16T08:41:27.897-08:00............Here's today's email response to Interweave's daily advertising email to me......<br /><br /><br />...........From Petra Maxwell <petra@maxwellpi.com><br />...........to Knitting Daily <interweave_9D61591F1D1250DD98A3962B7BB27BA1AD0B43E0AE847CC5@response.interweave.com><br />date Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:35 AM<br />subject Re: Knitting Reversible Cables: A Lesson and 4 Free Patterns!<br />mailed-by maxwellpi.com<br />Images from this sender are always displayed. Don't display from now on.<br />hide details 8:35 AM (0 minutes ago)<br />Hey guys, how about anything for us machine knitters? I'ver been wondering whether or not you'd address this lack of useful information especially in today's climate, when people are using their knitting machines again and have to be satisfied with pre early 1990s instructions, patterns, ideas, etc....! I've emailed this concern of mine to you now several times w/o getting an answer, starting to feel totally ignored!<br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Petra Maxwell, A passionate hand and machine knitter, sewer and crocheter<br />- Show quoted text -YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-15282005185774567292009-12-14T10:17:00.000-08:002009-12-14T10:17:32.704-08:00<a href="http://www.knittingdaily.com/blogs/daily/archive/2009/12/14/book-it-my-favorite-interweave-books-from-2009.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage">Book It! My Favorite Interweave Books from 2009 - Knitting Daily - Knitting Daily</a>YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-46640718967330169232009-12-11T08:54:00.000-08:002009-12-11T09:13:24.637-08:00......I'm back.... <br />Interestingly Interweave did not reply to my email about current stuff for machine knitters. They do keep emailing me invitations to buy from their ever expanding crafting products and media, as though machine knitting doesn't even exist and I never wrote to them about it....<div><br /></div><div>Hungry for machine knitting information and techniques and signs of a community, I've been stockpiling relevant books from before the mid 1990's back to the 1950s; The books from the 50s and 60s contain beautiful vintage tailored creations for those who are interested in making their own clothes. </div><div><br /></div><div>Having stockpiled from EBay huge skeins of the fine wool that's allegedly being used for high end designer clothes such as St. John's, I am seriously considering making some clothes on my machines. My friends at Needle-Tek, Jerry and Bea, who run one of the only knitting machine repair shops sill in business today, helped me set up my Brother KH/KR 230 and H965 with KR 850 recently. I had those machines for years stashed in my garage. I also bought the December issue of "KNit'N Style", which, Kudos to the editors, has one article in there about machine knitting....,,</div><div><br /></div><div>Hey guys, I welcome your thoughts, share with me!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-23961222980264580902009-11-30T09:15:00.000-08:002009-11-30T09:28:24.750-08:00.....I also do machine knitting and I have a stash of yarn that can stock a yarnshop. I also cannot find interesting and challenging current reads for our craft. Unlike the British Isles where Machine Knitting seems to be alive and well, here in the uS machine knitting all but has been forgotten by the crafting media. This has irked me for some time, because helpful magazines and books abound for other crafters, fellow handknitters, sewers, crocheters, and most of all, the Mixed media genre. <div><br /></div><div>I have become frustrated over the lack of current guidance on machine knitting and organizing your craft space in the media, so to day I emailed the editor at <info@clothpaperscissors.com> ClothPaperSissors.com regarding their Studio quarterly magazines, where crafter's studios are displayed, except, guess what?, our machine knitting craft spaces.....the email goes:</div><div><br /></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Hello</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><div><br /></div><div>I am somewhat of a fanatic hand and machine knitter who loves just about anything Interweave puts out for hand knitters/crocheters. I know there are many of us machine knitters out there who'd love to see us better represented in your lovely Studio magazine ! And, maybe a Machine Knitters magazine? </div><div><br /></div><div>How about focusing in upcoming issues on creative ways (maybe how other knitters have solved theirs...) to deal with space and organizational challenges, especially for those with multiple knitting machines, a stash of yarn, many accessories and little space? </div><div><br /></div><div>I have been searching for just such help for years, since I need to use my guestroom for knitting and also as office space for my other business (my day job:)) ? I sent an SOS out in October on myblog <a href="http://www.yarnkrazy.typepad.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.yarnkrazy.typepad.com</a> and am still challenged. It' interesting that machine kntting media such as magazines and books basically stopped in their tracks soemwhere in the early to mid 1990s. No one seems to have picked up on the current resourgence of machine knitters, many of whom are not the grandma type one associates with machine knitting afghans and such :). </div><div><br /></div><div>I am certain that someone on your end can look into this creatively and bring us out of the closet and place us along with the other crafters seemingly held so high in your esteem. I'll be glad to assist in any way I can! </div><div><br /></div><div>Sincerely</div><div><br /></div><span style="color:#888888;"><div>Petra Maxwell</div><div>360 882 0180</div><div><a href="mailto:petra@maxwellpi.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">petra@maxwellpi.com</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.petramaxwell.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(42, 93, 176); ">www.petramaxwell.blogspot.com</a> </div></span></span><span style="color:#888888;"></span><span style="color:#888888;"></span><div><br /></div><div>I will keep you posted with their reply, if an. We'll see, hm?</div><div><br /></div>YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-69962625282779007882009-10-27T10:36:00.000-07:002009-10-27T10:57:45.546-07:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxEF1cBa-8xalUa7lkfk5o-Hi1XLM8paJacjVwJpA-e0PHcKub6J5fq6_AMRt24jc5Q3XFMS2lMjgaqW2f8H005qCA4mHwOPVWNolziywJSbzWMxtWr7LL-l1XMYmG5loTqHTMlR6UrVvR/s1600-h/Yarnkrazi+knitting.jpg"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 213px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397338509354284578" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxEF1cBa-8xalUa7lkfk5o-Hi1XLM8paJacjVwJpA-e0PHcKub6J5fq6_AMRt24jc5Q3XFMS2lMjgaqW2f8H005qCA4mHwOPVWNolziywJSbzWMxtWr7LL-l1XMYmG5loTqHTMlR6UrVvR/s320/Yarnkrazi+knitting.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Now that I have a blog I should put something on it worth looking at, hm? I do have a picture of my yarn stash and a chaotic guest-craftroom challenging me to put to order, so I can set up my knitting and sewing machines on my other blog at <a href="http://www.petramaxwell.typepad.com/">http://www.petramaxwell.typepad.com</a> .I'm workin' on it (my craftroom ) aand I invite any comments from fellow knitters on how they organize their personal or not so personal crafting space...</div><div></div><div>In the meantime I am knittng by hand and exchanging ideas and knitted requests with my daughters. One of them lives in Austria and knits and crochets beautiful teddybears according to an antique European pattern. </div><div></div><br /><div>The picture above shows my younger daughter who lives nearby as a model for my aome of my knitted creations, fingerless gauntlet g;oves and matching cap .</div>YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5497622588189330361.post-42366893309164762042009-10-24T09:26:00.000-07:002009-10-24T09:48:51.960-07:00Hi All! i'm fairly new at this blogging<div><br /></div><div>Today I'm just trying it out. The name Yarnkrazy occurred to my husband when he contemplated my huge yarn stash in the room I'm about to convert into a guest-knitting-sewing room. I also have my laptop in there as from time to time I do actual work as a licensed investigator. I like listening to people which helps me be good at my profession. However, I also love the yarn craft, and have been at it since I was a six year old in my home Country Austria. </div><div><br /></div><div>Nowadays I knit and felt for my family and others;Home decs, bags, clothes for adults, children and pets; Soon there will be pictures of my stuff. </div><div><br /></div><div>For now I'm inviting fellow bloggers to add comments and aks questions since this is how </div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>YarnKrazihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09432039503073388828noreply@blogger.com0