Just before the really cold winter I decided to make most of my time exercising outdoors

(much more fun than a gym!)

I decided to take a bike ride to Frameworks Knitters museum to work on building my skills where I have spent part of my summer volunteering. 

These machines are the first invented knitting and knitted lace machines which date back to the 18th century.

I feel privileged to be keeping the technique alive and to develop new ideas and designs, the machines take 8 separate steps to complete one row, using the lace bar also involves transfer stitches between. The machine I have been using is 32 gage which means 32 needles per inch and a half. This proves the difficult job of keeping them perfectly in line, a hairline difference will mean that the the fingers on the lace bar would miss the needles and fall, so I'm always learning and improving on the machine.

River Trent

Frames 4 different pedals

Transferring stitches with the lace bar

My adaptation lace of knitting

JoJo