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About Myself
I have been Hand Knitting since 1967 and Machine Knitting since 1989. When I purchased my first machine, the Brother KX-350, there was no place for me to get any info on how to work it except for the manual that was with it. Self-taught just by taking my hand knitting skills and putting them to the machine. I did not go to any school and get a degree, that would have been money wasted (only my opinion) and would rather purchase yarn to knit more items. The key is to control the machine and not let the machine control you. I would love to pass on my knowledge to those that are interested.
I am a 1 woman show. I have recorded, produced, and marketed many short knitting machine techniques tutorial video's and put them together on DVD disks with similar topics. I show my mistakes and correct them, how else would you learn unless you watch others, like myself, make the same mistakes that you encounter.
I try to put as much as possible on each disk which is close to 2 hours for each, so you get your monies worth (some even have files such as patterns as well as Excel worksheets to help you with the patterns). Also available in PAL format for the countries that still use that system.
My first thought about making my DVD's was for them to be viewed on a TV so that one can watch them while having their machine in front of them also. They can be viewed on computers with programs that will play the VOB (video) files, like Windows Media Player (at least version 9 and up) and have heard that Mac OS X can play them also. Not sure about the Linux OS but there are many other programs that will play them.
Some cannot get their knitting machine in the computer room to be able to watch and do, there was a time that I couldn't but now I can. I have many grateful customers that you can view some of their comments on the unsolicited comment page.
If you would like to Skype me and I am not on, you can email me and set up a time for us to chat. I will have to allow you to my list before we can. I don't normally have that on with all that I do, but would love to video chat or even show you something on one of my machines via Skype. If you do not have Skype but have a web cam, I do have a couple web pages that we can do the same, again email me to set up a day and time.
List of my disks, newest ones on top