I have always loved knitting. I believe that I learned to knit when I was about 5 years old. I remember starting a craft club with my friends when we were 10 years old and that was when I made my first sweater. I have always loved all sorts of crafts, quilting, making clothes and jewelleries. At the age of 16 to 20, I knitted many sweaters, hats and scarfs made for my siblings and friends. Then as I went, on to university studies, I knitted a lot less and juggling work and home during the first decade of work life, this continued. I found back to knitting as my son grew older as weekends and nights after work hours became more leisurely. I always have some hand knit project going on. Growing up my mother had a knitting machine; I believe it was a pink Passap knitting machine. I did try using it once or twice and found it very fascinating but difficult to use. At that time, it was also difficult to get spare parts for the machine so it was probably not only popular to have a teenager using the try and error method to learn to use the machine. Unfortunately the machine got thrown away as it was no longer possible to get spare parts (needles and such) just a few years before this again became much easier using eBay and other websites to find these things. Therefore, for years I longed to try using a knitting machine again. A couple of years back I finally invested in my first knitting machine. The cheapest and easiest to ship to Iceland was the Bond Ultimate Sweater Machine. This was love at first sight. Many projects have been knitted on this machine and my latest creation was this cardigan.
I made three, one in the yarn “Einrúm” (Pure Icelandic Wool and Pure Thai Silk) and two in Lopi lite (Worsted weight yarn, 100 % wool).
Now I have added two more knitting machines.
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