Our CSM venture- Socks Made On 88

MrB is the cranker in this venture. He creates hand-cranked knitted wool socks made on our Circular Sock Machine, we call Brigadier 88! It is the #88th Erlbacher Gearhart Knitting Machine newly made. Me, MsB is the cranky assistant (not) :-) that runs the business side of things,networking,doing the sock tags,yarn ordering,kitchener stitching and more. MrB is studious,and is constantly cranking out new pairs of SOCKS Made on 88! Our story and my blog unfolds here... it all began Jan.3, 2012

Sunday 2 February 2014

Almost forgot to share... MrB's excitement before surgery!

At our last market stint, we had a lovely young girl approach us of doing a custom order of socks. This was a unique proposition for MrB, as she is a colour technician for a local handpainting yarn company. MrB was thrilled to have the opportunity to work with this yarn that includes cashmere! It knit very well on the CSM. Miss BP was very happy with the outcome of her somewhat created left-over principle of sock pairs. I did get her permission to share the photo of the sock pairs here. She dyed two of the three colours to use for these sock pairs. The third colour is called, "puffin", and both myself and MrB very much enjoyed seeing that colour unfold as cranked! It was great to see the yarn, touch the yarn, and for MrB to crank the yarn! When Miss BP picked up her socks, she LOVED