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posted Monday, October 20th, 2008
I totally had a blast. Lost of people stopped by to see us, and Shelly and I were super busy the entire weekend! I managed to crank out one pair of socks Saturday morning in about 45 minutes, which I then took off the machine but left attached to each other, so Shelly and I could show what a pair looks like fresh off the machine. That worked REALLY well for demonstration purposes – quite a few people commented that I must not know what a foot looks like, since it was hard to make out just how what came off the machine became socks, but it was great to be able to show them all the parts of a sock, and how it all comes together when you separate them and close the toes. Most people were surprised that there was very little difference structurally between the socks we make on our antique machines, and the new ones you can go pick up at any store.
Shelly and I both have a lot of ideas on how to make things go a little smoother next year (or for any CSM demo, really).
sock knitter
Originally uploaded by yi
Yeah, that’s me – I was putting tags on socks!
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posted Thursday, October 16th, 2008
I’ve been MIA a lot lately since I’ve been so busy, but I just wanted to post that I’ll be at Maker Faire in Austin this weekend with civilbitch demonstrating our sock machines 
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posted Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Yeah… uh, guess I forgot to post stuff, again I haven’t really been up to a WHOLE lot lately.. honest
I got a new camera as a late birthday present, so I’ve been off taking pictures, not crafting. My son went back to school, my daughter also started preschool, and my youngest is trying his hardest to walk.
After my futile attempt at knitting 17 pairs of socks for the Ravelympics (I only logged 6 of the 7 I know I finished) I finally got the Legare out again Monday, and knit up a couple of pairs.. first a pair from this month’s Yarn Pirate Booty Club
and then some from some Panda Silk I wanted to try out.. I really REALLY like how it works up on the CSM, when it all goes right. There was supposed to be another pair in another colorway for my sister, but um, we had issues and I’m not gonna go there.
I sat down today and made a pair of hairclips.. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, I just didn’t get myself in gear to go get the goodies I needed. I love how they came out, and I’ll definitely be making more 
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posted Friday, August 22nd, 2008
I have made 7 pairs out of 17 that I had planned to do for the ravelympics. I had some issues and just lost momentum. Nevermind I’ve not been feeling all that great this past week. I think I’m going to call it quits officially and just be proud I made 6 pairs. I don’t think the 10 pairs I have left will actually happen in the next two days. It might, but I seriously doubt it.
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posted Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
Well I’ve successfully finished 4 pairs of socks… and I have one pair “knit” that is going to get ripped out (and may in all likelyhood not count towards my 17 pairs) and I knit one sock yesterday that I will frog soon – I need to take a picture of how it pooled, because it is *bad*. Seriously horrible… and I’m sorry but I just can’t leave it that way, so I’m going to try the yarn on my 54 cylinder. That makes me only a pair behind on my “pair a day” plan, and I actually expect to finish two more pairs (possibly three!) tonight. Then I’ll have two pairs left to knit on my 72 cylinder before I get started on all the socks that need to be knit on the 54 cylinder.
I was having all sorts of issues the other night with my ribber, which is what resulted in that failed pair that I need to frog and re-knit. I’m not sure what happened, but it did inspire me to figure out how to adjust the yarn carrier from Rox and get that working so I didn’t have to break the yarn every time I wanted to start over on a sock. I did that, then I decided to paint it, and my ribber/ribber arm
I went with purple. Why? I don’t know.. it seemed like a fun, happy color. And the aqua that I liked only came in a satin finish, which I didn’t think I wanted. Looking at the “gloss” grape color though, it’s not all that shiny either though.. oh well I think I will be repainting the cam shell a darker purple at some point, and likely leave the base, gear ring, and crank alone. The ribber and ribber arm were the most beat up peices, so I felt like I needed to do something with them. I had wanted to powdercoat them, but I figured for now this will do fine, it’s cute, and it’s really not any extra work to strip this paint off too considering the original paint would need to go as well if I eventually powdercoat the thing.
Pictures of all the finished socks so far to come in a little while.. must go close toes
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