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Showing posts with label Brother Knitting Machine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brother Knitting Machine. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Sunday, June 17, 2012
You Can't Take it With You...
I live in Las Vegas, NV, USA where it's HOT, very hot from May through September. Each day our normal high temperature is well over 100 degrees F, yes, its a dry heat but, still HOT! This morning before the sun started to heat things up I sat on my patio grafting toes on some socks. I find the outside lighting the best. Sitting next to my pond listening to the water trickle out of the stream while koi eat breakfast is very relaxing. As I was grafting, my mind started to wander...
Over the years I have met some very wonderful machine knitters. They have shared things with me and me with them. Not too long ago a very nice woman from California saw I was listed as a "Knitting Buddy" in the UK publication "Machine Knitting Monthly." She had some questions about her Brother electronic and sent me an email as she was having carriage and programming issues. We emailed back and forth & I ended up sending her a carriage, yarn masts, and extension rails. She offered to pay me but I refused. Then she offered to pay me for the shipping, again, I refused.
Very recently, I read on another machine knitting blog a woman had just purchased a 4-color yarn changer. She had some issues with the seller and did not have the punch cards. I contacted her then emailed the scans of the punch cards she was looking for. She was so tickled I did that (so was I).
Then I started to think a bit more, isn't that the same thing teachers do? They share their "knowledge" with others? I am no teacher, but I do share what I know and have learned. In addition I send people what they need if I can. Why? Guess part of me thinks it's fun to make people happy, the other part of me wants our craft to continue on and flourish. Trust me, I am not thinking "It will come back to me 10 fold."
Example: A friend of mine who I am sure you know, Diana Sullivan, teaches machine knitting and all the knitting machine techniques that she can. As you know there are plenty of her videos free of charge on YouTube or you can purchase the DVD and books from her blog/website. Do you really think she "makes" money doing this? Think of her valuable time (she has a rewarding full time job), the equipment she needed to purchase to make the videos, the supplies (DVD's to burn, books to make, mailing envelopes, postage and etc.). She does this for the love of the craft and to help people; not the money.
So, what's in it for me? Not a thing other than making people smile. Recently and unexpectedly, I received well over 50lbs of coned yarn from another machine knitter (who also sells supplies for our craft). She, when I asked why she was sending me the yarn simply stated, "I know you will make nice things and give them to charity!" She did not ask me to pay for anything...WOW!
Please share your knowledge, your techniques, send some one something they are looking for. You can email patterns, punch card designs, manuals (PDF's) and etc. Promise you will make friends along the way and it feels so darn good too!
As the title says, "You Can't Take it With You!"
Over the years I have met some very wonderful machine knitters. They have shared things with me and me with them. Not too long ago a very nice woman from California saw I was listed as a "Knitting Buddy" in the UK publication "Machine Knitting Monthly." She had some questions about her Brother electronic and sent me an email as she was having carriage and programming issues. We emailed back and forth & I ended up sending her a carriage, yarn masts, and extension rails. She offered to pay me but I refused. Then she offered to pay me for the shipping, again, I refused.
Very recently, I read on another machine knitting blog a woman had just purchased a 4-color yarn changer. She had some issues with the seller and did not have the punch cards. I contacted her then emailed the scans of the punch cards she was looking for. She was so tickled I did that (so was I).
Then I started to think a bit more, isn't that the same thing teachers do? They share their "knowledge" with others? I am no teacher, but I do share what I know and have learned. In addition I send people what they need if I can. Why? Guess part of me thinks it's fun to make people happy, the other part of me wants our craft to continue on and flourish. Trust me, I am not thinking "It will come back to me 10 fold."
Example: A friend of mine who I am sure you know, Diana Sullivan, teaches machine knitting and all the knitting machine techniques that she can. As you know there are plenty of her videos free of charge on YouTube or you can purchase the DVD and books from her blog/website. Do you really think she "makes" money doing this? Think of her valuable time (she has a rewarding full time job), the equipment she needed to purchase to make the videos, the supplies (DVD's to burn, books to make, mailing envelopes, postage and etc.). She does this for the love of the craft and to help people; not the money.
So, what's in it for me? Not a thing other than making people smile. Recently and unexpectedly, I received well over 50lbs of coned yarn from another machine knitter (who also sells supplies for our craft). She, when I asked why she was sending me the yarn simply stated, "I know you will make nice things and give them to charity!" She did not ask me to pay for anything...WOW!
Please share your knowledge, your techniques, send some one something they are looking for. You can email patterns, punch card designs, manuals (PDF's) and etc. Promise you will make friends along the way and it feels so darn good too!
As the title says, "You Can't Take it With You!"
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